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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 12
… Augustin, the worthy successor of Paul, and the precursor of Luther and Calvin. He had lived at the time of the Reformation, he would in all probability have taken the lead of the evangelical movement …
2,473 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 260
[1651] "That, as Chrys., Calvin, Grotius, and many, including Rückert and Olshausen assume, Paul intended courteously and gently' (Luther) to suggest to the Romans that they should likewise bestow alms on those at Jerusalem, is …
750 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 11
… He did not indeed enter a cloister, like Luther, whose conversion in Erfurt was likewise essentially catholic, but he lived in his house in the simplicity of a monk, and made and kept the vow …
2,283 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 63
… Eusebius treats it as he does James, and Luther, followed by many modern conservative scholars (among them Neander), rejects it. Its defenders commonly ascribe it to Jude, the brother of the Lord, in distinction from …
818 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 28
… Of its abuse Luther says, "It is the greatest martyr."--It is not a compilation, although similar or the same, petitions may have been in use among the Jews. The simplicity, symmetry of arrangement, depth …
1,465 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 305
… Wider die Natterzungen,...Dabey ein Antwort auff Constantini Donation, welche der Luther spöttlich nennet den Hohen Artickel des allerheyligisten Bebstlichen glaubens (Dresden), 1538, 4°, (45). p. Examines whether the Donation is "ein Teuffelische lügen und …
1,969 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 13
[71] It is well known that Luther, as late as 1526, in his work, De servo arbitrio, against Erasmus, which he never retracted, proceeded upon the most rigorous notion of the divine omnipotence, wholly denied …
2,216 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 57
… Also, Luther's Trichotomy, ibid., p. 460. With another work of similar character I am only slightly acquainted, but, recall with great satisfaction a partial examination of it when it first appeared. I refer to …
870 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 10
… Though he did not die a violent death, he deserves to be numbered among the true martyrs, who are ready for any sacrifice to the cause of virtue and piety. [23] Luther's intense aversion …
884 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 6
… church fathers the first place is due to him, and in the time of the Reformation a Luther alone, for fulness and depth of thought and grandeur of character, may stand by his side. He …
2,529 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 403
… Wherever you take your stand, you are fast bound by guilt; because you have either willed evil, or else have not fulfilled good. [8433] [Without reference to Luther's theory of justification, we must all …
996 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 46
… It is curious to note that while Eustathius and his followers held all marriage to be sinful, Luther (at least at one time) taught that it was a sin for anyone to remain unmarried who …
1,033 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 31
… It has been taken to mean (1) needful, hence sufficient, as opposed to superfluity or want (Chrysostom, Tholuck, Ewald, Ebrard, Weiss, etc.); (2) daily (Luther, English version, etc.); (3) for the coming day (Grotius, Meyer …
1,142 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 337
… adored, 92. Knowledge, tree of, 104. Light, created, 100. Logos, 98. the internal, 103. and external, 103. Luther, referred to, 102. Man, his creation, 101, 102. his life, 102. or lives, 102. tripartite nature, 102 …
1,278 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 4
… The inheritance of the earth is referred to "earthly good and possessions," by Chrysostom, Euthymius, Luther, etc.; to conquest of the world by the kingdom of God, by Neander, to the actual kingdom on this …
1,291 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 264
… Peter is called a stone or a rock; a usage to which neither Luther nor Calvin could object. Tertullian himself, when he speaks dogmatically, is in accord with other Fathers, and gives no countenance to …
1,455 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 37
… 17-24. [382] Luther says the world can do it in a masterly way, and carry the tree (or "water" according to the English figure) on both shoulders. This verse is a rebuke to those …
1,599 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 135
… They take it as meaning either that the Apostle acted as Christ's representative and by his authority (Luther, Wetstein, et al.), or that he took the course which he did in the presence of …
1,660 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 379
… save in an interpolation of the margin "in Melanchthon's hand." Luther's Version lacks this text.]
1,824 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 23
… and was the first to write in defence of this then new-fangled refinement of casuistry. [98] Luther violently opposed him, and Melancthon also kept to the old doctrine, though less violently (as was to …
1,877 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 26
… giving" (Chrysostom). No reference to a counting of the money by the left hand (Paulus, De Wette). Luther's comment is quaint and characteristic: "When thou givest alms with thy right hand, take heed that …
1,924 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 18
… The interpretation of Augustin is shared by Luther, Bengel, De Wette, Tholuck, Ewald, etc. [163] Augustin is somewhat perplexed about the meaning, but decides the injunction to be directed against the abuse of the oath …
1,935 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 5
… Monasticism was to him (as to many other great teachers of the church, and even to Luther) a profitable school of spiritual experience and self-government. He embraced this mode of life as "the true …
1,955 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 165
… The Letters of Cicero and Pliny have given us a more vivid conception of Roman life than the most careful history could have given; the Letters of Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin furnish us with the …
1,954 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 142
… Field rejects the insertion. [589] This version of the verb was followed by Luther, Bengel and others, and is found in the Revised Version. It is objected to by Meyer, Hodge, Beet et al., as …
2,055 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 349
… be as above. [Massuet's idea is no more to be found, even in his text, than Luther's or Calvin's. The crucial point is, how offered? One may answer "figuratively," "corporally," "mystically," or …
2,209 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 1
… Nor should the student ever forget Luther, or fail to profit by the peculiar methods of some recent Germans; but one who is reasonably endowed with historical sympathy can learn most from Chrysostom. The study …
2,202 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 2
… Especially did Luther utter his protest, on the ground that the fancies into which this method was apt to lead had a tendency to shake confidence in the literal truth of the sacred volume. He …
2,203 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 4
… Combining, as he did, the clerical life with the monastic, he became unwittingly the founder of the Augustinian order, which gave the reformer Luther to the world. He wore the black dress of the Easter …
2,212 wordsChrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 159
… Luke (besides the views of ancients given above, Calvin, Ebrard, Döllinger, and to a certain extent Delitzsch), Clement of Rome (Erasmus, Reithmaier, Bisping), Silas (Mynster, Böhme, Godet), Apollos (Luther, Semler, De Wette, Tholuck, Bunsen, Kurtz …
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