Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series • VOLUME 3
Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings
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35. But my fault, you will say, was this, that I did not restrain your accusers who were my friends. Why, I had enough to do to answer their
35. But my fault, you will say, was this, that I did not restrain your accusers who were my friends. Why, I had enough to do to answer their accusations against myself; for they charged me with hypocrisy, [3201] as I could shew by producing their letters, because I kept silence when I knew you to be a heretic; and because by inc…
2,576 wordsSECTION 282[3206] Gesta quæ in Alexandro et Scipione legeram. The Latin construction will bear Jerome's meaning, but cannot be exactly or elegantly ren
[3206] Gesta quæ in Alexandro et Scipione legeram. The Latin construction will bear Jerome's meaning, but cannot be exactly or elegantly rendered in English. 41. I come now to your Epilogue, (that is to the revilings which you pour upon me,) in which you exhort me to repentance, and threaten me with destruction unless I am conv…
2,257 wordsSECTION 283"The wicked are estranged from the womb, they go astray even from the belly. They have spoken lies. Their madness is like the madness of the
"The wicked are estranged from the womb, they go astray even from the belly. They have spoken lies. Their madness is like the madness of the serpent; like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ears, which will not hear the voice of the charmers, and of the magician wisely enchanting. God shall break their teeth in their mouth; the L…
2,402 wordsSECTION 284[3257] Heb. xi. 10
[3257] Heb. xi. 10 [3258] Dan. xii. 10, or Is. vii. 9 4. "I Believe in God the Father Almighty." The Eastern Churches almost universally deliver the article thus, "I believe in One God the Father Almighty;" and again in the next article, where we say, "And in Christ Jesus, His only Son, our Lord," they deliver it., "And in On…
2,200 wordsSECTION 285[3271] Isa. lxi. 1. Comp. Luke iv. 18
[3271] Isa. lxi. 1. Comp. Luke iv. 18 [3272] 1 Tim. i. 17 [3273] 1 Cor. xi. 3 7. When you hear the word "Son," you must not think of a nativity after the flesh; but remember that it is spoken of an incorporeal substance, and a simple and uncompounded nature. For if, as we said above, whether when the understanding generates a…
2,420 wordsSECTION 28613. But there is another consideration which we must not leave out in the solution of this question, namely, that the substance of God, whic
13. But there is another consideration which we must not leave out in the solution of this question, namely, that the substance of God, which is wholly incorporeal, cannot be introduced into bodies or be received by them in the first instance, unless there be some spiritual substance as a medium, which is capable of receiving th…
2,432 wordsSECTION 287[3298] 1 Cor. i. 23, 24
[3298] 1 Cor. i. 23, 24 [3299] 1 Cor. i. 18 [3300] Isa. lii. 15. Comp. Rom. xv. 21 [3301] Isa. xxv. 6 [3302] Their corruptions, LXX. [3303] Lamentations iv. 20 20. But, if it does not weary you, let the point out as briefly as possible, specific references to prophecy in the Gospels, that those who are being instructed in …
2,339 wordsSECTION 288[3340] Ps. lxix. 21
[3340] Ps. lxix. 21 [3341] Deut. xxxii. 32 [3342] Deut. xxxii. 6 [3343] Cant. v. 1 27. Next it is written that "He gave up the ghost." [3344] This also had been foretold, by the Prophet, who says, addressing the Father in the Person of the Son, "Into Thy hands I commend My Spirit." [3345] He is related also to have been buri…
2,279 wordsSECTION 289[3381] Ps. xciii. 2
[3381] Ps. xciii. 2 [3382] Phil. ii. 10, 11 [3383] Ps. cx. 1 [3384] Matt. xxii. 43-45 [3385] Matt. xxvi. 64; Luke xxii. 69 [3386] 1 Pet. iii. 22 [3387] Eph. i. 19, 20 33. That He shall come to judge the quick and the dead we are taught by many testimonies of the divine Scriptures. But before we cite what the Prophets say …
2,410 wordsSECTION 290For Marcion's assembly is a Council of vanity in that he denies that the Father of Christ is God, the Creator, who by His Son made the world
For Marcion's assembly is a Council of vanity in that he denies that the Father of Christ is God, the Creator, who by His Son made the world. Ebion's is a Council of vanity since he teaches that, while we believe in Christ, we are withal to observe the circumcision of the flesh, the keeping of the Sabbath, the accustomed sacrifi…
2,522 wordsSECTION 291[3415] The Church of Aquileia.
[3415] The Church of Aquileia. [3416] 1 Cor. xv. 13, 14 [3417] Ibid. 20-24 [3418] A reading current in Rufinus' time. [3419] Ibid. 51, 52 [3420] 1 Thess. iv. 13-17 44. But that you may not suppose this to be a novel doctrine peculiar to Paul, I will adduce also what the Prophet Ezekiel foretold by the Holy Ghost. "Behold,"…
2,296 wordsSECTION 292Preface to the Translation of the Sayings of Xystus.
There is a letter in which this same Clement writing to James the Lord's brother, gives an account of the death of Peter, and says that he has left him as his successor, as ruler and teacher of the church; and further incorporates a whole scheme of ecclesiastical government. This I have not prefixed to the work, both because it …
751 wordsSECTION 293Preface to the Two Books of Ecclesiastical History, Added by Rufinus to His Translation of Eusebius.
Preface to the Two Books of Ecclesiastical History, Added by Rufinus to His Translation of Eusebius. Addressed to Chromatius, Bishop of Aquileia, a.d. 401. (For the occasion of writing, and the date, see Prolegomena, p. 412.) ------------------------ It is the custom, they say, of skilful physicians, when they perceive that …
2,208 wordsSECTION 294Preface to Origen's Homilies on Numbers.
I shall turn next to the work which was long ago imposed upon me but now is demanded with still greater vehemence by the Bishop Gaudentius, namely to turn into Latin the books called the Recognition of Clement the Bishop of Rome, the successor and companion of the Apostles. In this work I well know that, to judge by the ordinary…
2,211 wordsSECTION 295Galatians
Galatians [1367]1:8 [1368]1:8 [1369]1:9 [1370]1:15-16 [1371]1:15-17 [1372]1:19 [1373]1:19 [1374]2:2 [1375]2:19 [1376]3:1 [1377]3:8 [1378]3:13 [1379]3:13 [1380]3:13 [1381]3:13 [1382]3:13 [1383]3:13 [1384]3:16 [1385]3:16 [1386]3:16 [1387]3:19 [1388]3:27 [1389]3:27-28 [1390]4:4 [1391]4:4 [1392]4:6-7 [1393]4:7 [1394]4:19 [1395]4:23…
3,141 wordsSECTION 296Index of Hebrew Words and Phrases
Index of Hebrew Words and Phrases * ': [2456]1 [2457]2 [2458]3 * 'vyvn: [2459]1 * 'nms kryhlv: [2460]1 * htkphlh: [2461]1 * mtslyn: [2462]1 * tsl': [2463]1 * srg: [2464]1 Index of Pages of the Print Edition [2465]i [2466]iii [2467]v [2468]vii [2469]viii [2470]xi [2471]xii [2472]xiii [2473]1 [2474]2 [2475]3 [2476]4 [2477]5 [24…
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