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… SECOND SERIES
VOLUME XII
Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
T&T CLARK
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WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY
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THE
LETTERS AND SERMONS
OF
LEO THE GREAT
BISHOP OF ROME,
Translated, with …
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… Leo's joy was full at last, as his latest letters testify. Late in the year 461 he died, after a rule of twenty-one years, during which he had won at least one great …
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… These are some of the benefits which Leo has conferred upon the Church, and which have rightfully earned for him the title "Great."
[1] The objection that Prosper and Leo himself both speak of Rome …
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… Leo.
[1897] This is more or less true up to the time of Leo the great, but Leo the great was the first pope who was an eminent theologian. Liberius is a doubtful case. Cf …
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… Leo the Great on the Incarnation with his XXVIIIth Epistle called the "Tome." London, 1886.
[284] It will be noticed here that the virgin-birth is as distinctly defined as the virgin-conception.
Extracts from …
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… East," and thus "Eastern bishops secretly felt that the cause of Constantinople was theirs" (Gore's Leo the Great, p. 120); but the gratification of Constantinople ambition was not the less, in a canonical sense …
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… 44.
[495] Viz., to human nature.
[496] A reference to Letter XCVIII. (from the Synod of Chalcedon to Leo), chap. ii. shows that Dioscorus had threatened Leo with excommunication; excommunicationem meditatus est contra te qui …
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… Arendt (Leo the Great and his Times, § 270) says that this meant only that "he had, without permission of the Pope, taken the presidency there, and conducted the proceedings, for Leo himself had acknowledged the …
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… that he showed a body from heaven. [2695] He died in the reign of Leo and Majorianus.
[2693] Leo the Great, Bishop (Pope) 440, died 461.
[2694] bishop: A 30 31 e have pontiff.
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… Pope.--Leo I.
Elenchus.
General Introduction.
Extracts from the Acts, Session I.
Session II.
The Letter of Cyril to John of Antioch.
Extracts from the Acts, Session II., continued.
The Tome of St. Leo.
Extracts …
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… Leo is too fond of claiming Apostolic authority for his dictates, and none such exists here, as far as we know.
[169] It will be noticed that Leo's order of events, though probably correct …
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… In like manner the Popes Leo the Great and Gregory the Great pronounced against it; and though even Gratian adopted this canon in his collection the Roman critics added the following note: Canon hic ex …
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… this is the mind of Archbishop Leo, so he believes, so he has written.
The most glorious judges and the great senate said: Let there be read also the epistle of the most worthy Leo …
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… Theodoret was sentenced not merely to deposition from his see but to degradation from the priesthood and to excommunication, and his books were ordered to be burnt. [68] So the great council ended with the …
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… It is at least certain that during this period he received a long and sympathetic letter from Leo, from which it is clear that the Roman bishop reposed great confidence in him. [92] It is …
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… the reconciliation of this class of apparently contradictory statements is often undertaken by Leo [e.g. Sermon xxiii. 2 and lxxvii. 5; Ep. xxviii. 4 and lix. 3], and by other fathers (e.g. by …
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… CXXVI.
[92] Leo. Ep. cxx., and Migne Theod. iv. 1193. Chagrined at the decision of the Council that Constantinople was to enjoy honorary precedence next after old Rome and practical equality and independence, in that …
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… Now, lest you should think we had omitted any opportunity of communicating with you, we have sent this note by our son Eupsychius, a man whom we hold in great honour and affection, asking you …
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… Cyril of Alexandria shuddered at the impious design ("merito perhorrescens," Leo. u. s.), and wrote to Leo, then archdeacon of Rome, informing him of what Juvenal was undertaking, and begging that his unlawful attempts might …
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… 82), we read; Sanctus ac beatissimus Papa, caput universalis Ecclesiæ, Leo.' In the older editions the beginning of Leo's Epist. 97 (ap. Quesn. 134, Baller. 165), runs thus: Leo Romæ et universalis catholicæque Ecclesiæ …
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… This, if intentional and not a slip, is, I suppose, Flavian, of whose death Leo was not yet apprized.
[373] Both Quesnel and the Ball. agree that the Canon here quoted by Leo really belongs …
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… and v.), of Nestorianizing, and that he thus had gained the approbation of Leo before his own unsoundness had been made known.
Letter XXI.
From Eutyches to Leo [213] .
I. He states his account of …
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… To Leo, Bishop in Corsica.
Gregory to Leo, &c.
Our pastoral charge constrains us to come with anxious consideration to the succour of a church that is destitute of the control of a priest [1391 …
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… From the Synod of Chalcedon to Leo.
The great and holy and universal Synod, which by the grace of God and the sanction of our most pious and Christ-loving Emperors has been gathered together …
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… To Leo Augustus.
Leo, the bishop, to Leo Augustus.
I. There is no need to open the question of doctrine again now.
Your clemency's letter, which was full of vigorous faith and of the …
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… Leo the Bishop to Leo Augustus.
I. The decrees of Chalcedon and Nicæa are identical and final.
With much joy my mind exults in the Lord, and great is my cause for thankfulness, now that …
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… The date of the letter is given as 21 Jul., 447.
[138] Hurter distinguishes these three documents thus: (1) epistola, the private letter of Turribius to Leo; (2) commonitorium, the detailed statement (under 16 heads …
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… As late as about the middle of the fifth century, Pope Leo I. spoke in a very depreciatory manner of these canons, especially of the third, which concerned the ecclesiastical rank of Constantinople, remarking that …
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… If Leo's legates in any way exceeded their instructions, they did so ineffectually.
Of course, if anything is alleged to have been done by those brethren whom I sent in my stead to the …
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… so believes Leo, the Pope (ho papas): Cyril thus believed: Pope Leo so interpreted it.
The most glorious judges and great senate said, Let there be read what was set forth by the 150 holy …
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