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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 1
… VOLUME X Ambrose: Select Works and Letters T&T CLARK EDINBURGH WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Some of The Principal Works of St. Ambrose, Translated by The Rev. H. De Romestin, M …
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… Ambrose's successor, and mentioned Simplicianus, he overheard them, and said, "An old man, but good." For the last few hours of his life Ambrose lay with his arms extended in the form of a …
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… Ambrose. 6. There are further three brief addresses ascribed by some persons to St. Ambrose, touching on the question of selling all and giving to the poor. Some of the matter is like St. Ambrose …
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… Ambrose with the words, "Go and act, not as a judge, but as a bishop." This advice was so well followed by Ambrose, that owing to his equity and kindness the people came to look …
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… in which St. Ambrose explained the Gospel during a period of one or two years, in 386 and 387. III. Ethical Writings. Among the ethical or moral writings of St. Ambrose, the first place is …
2,200 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 146
Chapter 74 [LXIII.]--Ambrose. St. Ambrose, however, really opposes those who say that man cannot exist without sin in the present life. For, in order to support his statement, he avails himself of the instance …
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… Ambrose, and, pointing out many inconsistencies in his opponent, says: "The saintly Ambrose wrote his book on the Holy Spirit not in words only but with his own blood, for he offered his life-blood …
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Chapter 47 [XLIII.]--Ambrose Most Highly Praised by Pelagius. "The blessed Bishop Ambrose," says he, "in whose writings the Roman faith shines forth with especial brightness, and whom the Latins have always regarded as the …
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Chapter 50.--Ambrose Teaches that All Men Need God's Help. In the same book the same St. Ambrose says again: [1905] "Now if Peter fell, who said, Though all men shall be offended, yet …
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… In this state of things the governor of the province, Ambrose by name, [663] who was also of consular dignity, dreading some catastrophe from the popular excitement, ran into the church in order to quell …
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Chapter 48 [XIX.]--Practice of Cyprian and Ambrose. What, then, hinders us, when we read of God's foreknowledge in some commentators on God's word, and they are treating of the calling of the …
1,116 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 214
… But in reference to the particular point in which he quoted the holy Ambrose with so much approbation,--because he found in that author's writings, from the praises he accorded to Zacharias and Elisabeth …
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… For it was about a year, or not much more, since Justina, the mother of the boy-Emperor Valentinian, persecuted [757] Thy servant Ambrose in the interest of her heresy, to which she had been …
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… Chapter V.--At the Recommendation of Ambrose, He Reads the Prophecies of Isaiah, But Does Not Understand Them. 13. The vintage vacation being ended, I gave the citizens of Milan notice that they might provide …
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… aid his uncle Valens in repelling a Gothic invasion, Gratian, the Emperor of the West, requested St. Ambrose to write him a treatise in proof of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Gratian's object in …
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Chapter 29 [XI.]--The Testimonies of Ambrose Against the Pelagians and First of All Concerning Original Sin. But now also to the most glorious martyr Cyprian, let me add, for the sake of more amply …
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Chapter 32 [XII.]--The Pelagian's Heresy Arose Long After Ambrose. It would be too long if I were to seek to mention everything which the holy Ambrose said and wrote against this heresy of …
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… the veil, and the simplicity of their dress, attribute the first commencements of community life to St. Ambrose himself. The first opinion is hardly tenable as regards any profession which was notorious. Statements in the …
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Chapter 51.--To Call Those that Teach Original Sin Manicheans is to Accuse Ambrose, Cyprian, and the Whole Church. What, moreover, shall I say of those commentators on the divine Scriptures who have flourished in …
705 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 246
… After the death of Eugenius, the emperor went to Milan, and repaired towards the church to pray within its walls. [1566] When he drew near the gates of the edifice, he was met by Ambrose …
1,598 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 116
… Whoever is disposed to listen to such an insinuation, let him at least believe the blessed Ambrose, who, deploring the acerbity of the time, says, in the second book of his work addressed to the …
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… 24. [2044] Ambrose's De Poenitentia, i. 2, 3. [2045] Quoted from a work by St. Ambrose, On Isaiah, not now extant. [2046] See Book ii. 56. of this Commentary on St. Luke, ch. ii.
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… Now the blessed Ambrose, bishop of Milan, by whose priestly office I received the washing of regeneration, briefly spoke on this matter, when, expounding the prophet Isaiah, he gathered from him the nativity of Christ …
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… on the Duties of the Clergy. by St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. Book I. Chapter I. A Bishop's special office is to teach; St. Ambrose himself, however, has to learn in order that he …
1,153 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 85
… From Fear of him Justina ceases persecuting Ambrose. Nearly at the same time with the holding of these Synods at Constantinople, the following events occurred in the Western parts. Maximus, from the island of Britain …
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… 115, St. Ambrose in explaining the third trumpet speaks of the sea. The third and fourth trumpets are not mentioned except in the Septuagint, and it may be noticed that St. Ambrose changes the description …
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Chapter XV. St. Ambrose meets the objection of those who make the desire of having children an excuse for second marriage, and especially in the case of those who have children of their former marriage …
1,369 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 181
… Chapter XVIII.--Ambrose. 1. About this time Ambrose, [1898] who held the heresy of Valentinus, [1899] was convinced by Origen's presentation of the truth, and, as if his mind were illumined by light, he …
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Chapter 8 [IV.]--What Augustin Wrote to Simplicianus, the Successor of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. You see plainly what was at that time my opinion concerning faith and works, although I was labouring in commending …
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… St. Ambrose, practised as an advocate, and held office. But when his brother was appointed Bishop of Milan, Satyrus at once gave up his appointment, and devoted his life to managing St. Ambrose's secular …
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