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1 1, 10| 10. You remember that in the
2 1, 11| 11. Since there appeared to
3 1, 12| 12. After these many and most
4 1, 13| 13. Hereby is excluded the
5 1, 14| 14. The person of the recipient
6 1, 15| 15. It is here insisted that
7 1, 16| 16. With the Son's origin as
8 1, 17| 17. Those who say that the
9 1, 18| 18. Moreover, to shew that
10 1, 19| 19. The heretics when beset
11 1, 20| 20. By confused and involved
12 1, 21| 21. We have always to beware
13 1, 22| 22. But birth does not countenance
14 1, 23| 23. It was said unto the apostles
15 1, 24| 24. It is a pious saying that
16 1, 25| 25. The essential likeness
17 1, 26| 26. The above definition when
18 1, 27| 27. We have reviewed, beloved
19 1, 28| 28. Here, beloved brethren,
20 1, 29| 29. "We believe in accordance
21 1, 30| 30. "Having therefore held
22 1, 31| 31. Perhaps this creed has
23 1, 32| 32. But in the first place
24 1, 33| 33. Further the whole of the
25 1, 34| 34. "We, the holy synod met
26 1, 35| 35. In the exposition of this
27 1, 36| 36. On every side, where anxiety
28 1, 37| 37. Yet to prevent the declaration
29 1, 38| 38. "We believe in one God
30 1, 39| 39. The necessity of the moment
31 1, 40| 40. What ambiguity is there
32 1, 41| 41. The very statement of the
33 1, 42| 42. The fact of the essence
34 1, 43| 43. While denying that the
35 1, 44| 44. To contract and expand
36 1, 45| 45. The above opinion, although
37 1, 46| 46. Heretics, destroying as
38 1, 47| 47. Thus is preserved both
39 1, 48| 48. This preserves the dignity
40 1, 49| 49. It is clearly shewn why
41 1, 50| 50. These points had to be
42 1, 51| 51. The foregoing and the following
43 1, 52| 52. Sheer perversity calls
44 1, 53| 53. The further clause makes
45 1, 54| 54. We remember that the Paraclete
46 1, 55| 55. The insane frenzy of the
47 1, 56| 56. Since it is contrary to
48 1, 57| 57. Though we condemn a plurality
49 1, 58| 58. To all creatures the will
50 1, 59| 59. Since it was taught that
51 1, 60| 60. To declare the Son to be
52 1, 61| 61. A condemnation of that
53 1, 62| 62. You perceive that the truth
54 1, 63| 63. You must not be surprised,
55 1, 64| 64. Kept always from guile
56 1, 65| 65. I have expounded, beloved
57 1, 66| 66. Since your faith and mine,
58 1, 67| 67. Many of us, beloved brethren,
59 1, 68| 68. But if we attribute one
60 1, 69| 69. Therefore amid the numerous
61 1, 70| 70. Therefore let no one think
62 1, 71| 71. Beloved brethren, we must
63 1, 72| 72. But perhaps the word similarity
64 1, 73| 73. Therefore, beloved brethren,
65 1, 74| 74. I am aware, dear brethren,
66 1, 75| 75. Although general conviction
67 1, 76| 76. Therefore, brethren, likeness
68 1, 76| similar because they are one.77. Beloved, after explaining
69 1, 77| 78. Ye who have begun to be
70 1, 78| 79. These are deceivers, I
71 1, 79| 80. Now I beseech you, holy
72 1, 80| 81. Your letter on the meaning
73 1, 81| 82. But I am not needlessly
74 1, 82| 83. But when I at last turn
75 1, 83| 84. Let us see, therefore,
76 1, 84| 85. But perhaps on the opposite
77 1, 85| 86. Some misunderstand o0moou/
78 1, 86| 87. But perhaps you will reply, `
79 1, 87| 88. Holy brethren, I understand
80 1, 88| 89. But you say: `The ambiguity
81 1, 89| 90. I am afraid, brethren,
82 1, 90| 91. I pray you, brethren, remove
83 1, 91| 92. Beloved brethren, I have
84 1, 57| that there are two Gods, abhor the idea of a diversity
85 1, 63| needed the letter, for you abounded in the spirit. You required
86 1, 80| o0moiou/sion which is equally absent in Scripture, is some danger.~
87 1, 37| corporeal nature, springs the absolute perfection of the essence
88 1, 9 | Greek into Latin, and to be absolutely literal is to be sometimes
89 1, 50| clearness of these statements absolves us from the necessity of
90 1, 4 | profession of its liberty. You abstain from communion with those
91 1, 91| you to write thus of many abstruse matters which until this
92 1, 82| progress of unity. For it is absurd to fear cavil about a word
93 1, 3 | you have conquered, to the abundant joy of those who share your
94 1, 86| last, if while we do not accept both, we keep neither? For
95 1, 3 | of Potamius and Hosius as accepting and confirming those views,
96 1, 41| two Gods, and it is also accursed to deny that the Son is
97 1, 77| through your warnings, acknowledged his ignorance, and through
98 | actually
99 1, 27| we have been able, have adapted the wording of our exposition
100 1, 75| to His own obedience by adding, but what He seeth the Father
101 1, 5 | affectionately laid the additional burden upon me of indicating
102 1, 76| it only remains for me to address myself to the holy bishops
103 1, 46| the Council immediately adds,~X. "If any man though saying
104 1, 62| treating of divine things these adequate and manifold definitions
105 1, 23| similarity of nature by admitting distinct personal qualities,
106 1, 80| fathers were compelled to adopt the word on account of those
107 1, 62| by many paths through the advice and opinions of different
108 1, 77| his own but that of his advisers. He freed himself from the
109 1, 1 | letter to you concerning the affairs of the Church in consequence
110 1, 15| made between Father and Son affecting their nature with its similar
111 1, 91| have been compelled by my affection for you to write thus of
112 1, 7 | Therefore I comply with your affectionate and urgent wish, and I have
113 1, 5 | confessions of faith. They affectionately laid the additional burden
114 1, 44| contract and expand are bodily affections: but God who is a Spirit
115 1, 57| our use of the same name affirms that there is no difference
116 1, 11| in all other things they agreed thereto, nor would they
117 1, 68| so gratifies them that it aids heresy when the word o0moou/
118 1, 22| is perfect, and remains alike in nature; not taking its
119 1, 33| by one and the same title allows no dissimilarity of power.
120 | almost
121 1, 20| of His Only-begotten an alteration and degeneration of His
122 1, 68| by itself, undefined and ambiguous. There is also a third error.
123 | among
124 1, 15| divinity both in kind and in amount: and this is to be truly
125 1, 34| the holy Catholic Church anathematizes."~
126 1, 11| the Virgin Mary, of the Angel announced. And as all the
127 1, 75| Lord, when the Jews were angry with Him for calling God
128 1, 90| anathema. Brethren, forgive my anguish: it is an impious act that
129 1, 84| fire or the sponge should annihilate the Epistle to the Philippians,
130 1, 27| Person of the Son is not annihilated and confounded with the
131 1, 57| of God the Father cannot annul the divinity of Him who
132 1, 86| Against my will I must answer: Do not the very same men
133 1, 79| brethren, to listen to my anxieties with indulgence. The Lord
134 1, 79| faith suffer me to be as anxious as yourselves.~
135 1, 11| 11. Since there appeared to be some misunderstanding
136 1, 91| undefiled unto the day of His appearing is my desire, dearest brethren.~ ~
137 1, 21| this undivided similarity appears to countenance a belief
138 1, 26| is unborn might under the appellation of Son be proclaimed as
139 1, 36| begetting, confirming it by the application of one name.~
140 1, 36| does not admit a number of applications of the title, except as
141 1, 50| the Son of God, and while applying them to the Father, deny
142 1, 36| where anxiety might be felt, approach is barred to the arguments
143 1, 85| better: but if both their approval and disapproval established
144 1, 90| leave no occasion for it. To approve of o0moiou/sion, we need
145 1, 85| heretic: the latter surely approved of it to oppose a heretic.
146 1 | Secunda, and the province of Aquitania, and the province of Novempopulana,
147 1, 34| Thebais, Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia, Coele Syria,
148 1, 84| living God, lest the godless argue that God is dead.~
149 1, 36| approach is barred to the arguments of heretics lest it should
150 1, 8 | were to meet in Ancyra and Ariminum, and that one or two bishops
151 1, 76| completely the faults which may arise from a deceitful brevity
152 1, 89| some misunderstanding has arisen in reference to certain
153 1, 2 | understood that their slow arrival and their paucity were due
154 1, 3 | threats, the powers and the assaults of Saturninus: and when
155 1, 4 | in exile, and do not by assenting to any crafty subterfuge
156 1, 68| which has been usurped and assumed by two and which is called
157 1, 45| increase of His nature and assuming manhood might be called
158 1, 35| of times or ages: on the assumption that He who does not differ
159 1, 80| saying this causes me some astonishment. For if the word o0moou/
160 1, 50| of the Virgin, and should attach to the Unborn God with the
161 1, 20| since no reality can be attached to the name of father unless
162 1, 77| consistently checking the bold attack of infidelity! In former
163 1, 76| likeness of nature can be attacked by no cavil, and the Son
164 1, 19| a lower nature can never attain to the might of a higher
165 1, 6 | wish, and in true Catholics attaining the object which they desire.~
166 1, 17| birth, of whatever kind, attains its own nature from the
167 1, 90| impious act that you are attempting. I cannot endure to hear
168 1, 75| nothing of Himself, He calls attention to His own obedience by
169 1, 35| things non-existent, it attributed to Him a source which had
170 1, 25| other.~XII. "And if any one attributes the timeless substance (
171 1, 80| sion, on the ground that by attributing this title to God he had
172 1, 18| heresy which has dared to aver that the Son of God is a
173 1, 3 | You awaited the noble triumph of a holy
174 1, 3 | and when all the waves of awakening blasphemy struggled against
175 1, 77| heresy now bursts forth backed by civil authority, and
176 1, 63| leave his conduct in the background lest man's judgment should
177 1, 84| and the Holy Ghost, they baptized in the name of Jesus only.
178 1, 29| and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
179 1, 4 | bring itself before the bar of conscience.~
180 1, 36| might be felt, approach is barred to the arguments of heretics
181 1, 89| believe you, my holy brethren, Basil, Eustathius, and Eleusius,
182 1, 76| freely with them on the basis of our common faith.~
183 1, 5 | actions, past and present, you bear witness to the uninterrupted
184 1, 22| said, There is another that beareth witness of Me, even the
185 1, 22| corporeal conception and bearing, but as an incorporeal Son
186 1, 51| subordination of His name bears witness to the true character
187 | becoming
188 1, 77| them hearing. For they did beguile an ignorant sovereign so
189 1, 77| publicly themselves, they beguiled the Emperor to give them
190 1, 2 | conscience, had thrust me after beguiling the Emperor, and after that
191 1, 77| 78. Ye who have begun to be eager for apostolic
192 1, 11| sanctify the apostles and all believers.~
193 1, 19| any one professing that he believes that there is a Father and
194 1, 78| must pardon me for not believing that at their age and with
195 1, 64| a wholly similar essence belonging to one name and nature.
196 1, 19| 19. The heretics when beset by authoritative passages
197 1, 73| equal because this likeness betokens an exactly similar essence.
198 1, 85| ought to decide which is the better: but if both their approval
199 1, 59| changed or forced at the bidding of a natural law. Nor was
200 1, 2 | I felt that it was now binding on me as a religious duty
201 1, 73| stage of conception, remove birth-pangs, and every kind of human
202 1, 30| a birth resembling other births, or a creature like the
203 1, 2 | profession at the Council of Biterrae, where I denounced the ringleaders
204 1, 63| had once been willing to blaspheme. I think it a subject of
205 1, 63| found among such obstinate, blaspheming and heretical bishops. But,
206 1, 71| nature and not to imply a blasphemous unity of Persons. Let the
207 1, 32| saints wished to strike a blow at that impiety which by
208 1, 77| in secret it has of late boasted of in open triumph. Whereas
209 1, 8 | cannot be exiled as our bodies are, or so chained and bound
210 1, 77| consistently checking the bold attack of infidelity! In
211 1, 44| Remaining free and outside the bond of any bodily nature, He
212 1, 24| name of Father which He bore before times began surpasses
213 1, 4 | against God, within our boundaries alone is communion in Christ
214 1, 62| refuted. The infinite and boundless God cannot be made comprehensible
215 1, 91| I have passed beyond the bounds of courtesy, and forgetting
216 1, 1 | bishops of the East, and bow the Evil One profiting by
217 1, 70| said, Man doth not live by bread aloneI will not hear He
218 1, 44| God who is a Spirit and breathes where He listeth, does not
219 1 | bishops of the provinces of Britain, Hilary the servant of Christ,
220 1, 39| to set forth a wider and broader exposition of the creed
221 1, 63| fresh yet festering heresy broke out at Sirmium. Of Hosius
222 1, 89| afraid, brethren, of the brood of heresies which are successively
223 1, 11| presence of our most reverend brothers and fellow-bishops, Valens,
224 1, 2 | hearts, for your firm house built on the foundation of the
225 1, 5 | affectionately laid the additional burden upon me of indicating my
226 1, 77| not. But the heresy now bursts forth backed by civil authority,
227 1, 89| them up, it was wrong to bury them in silence. But if
228 1, 77| successfully that though he was busy with war he expounded their
229 1, 23| times and beyond all human calculation: for contravening the teaching
230 1, 48| thoughts of human hearts, calmness in His passion, life in
231 1, 34| Syria, Mesopotamia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Paphlagonia, Galatia,
232 1, 34| the Cyclades, Pamphylia, Caria, Lydia, from Europe, namely,
233 1, 85| the same fact, why do we carp at such good decisions?~
234 1, 48| transformed into Flesh, so as to cease to be the Word; but the
235 1, 8 | as our bodies are, or so chained and bound that it cannot
236 1, 4 | bring yourselves under a charge of unrighteous judgment.
237 1, 77| inspired us by consistently checking the bold attack of infidelity!
238 1, 19| nature, since it is the chief ground of our hope to confess
239 1, 51| and is not equal to Him is chiefly shewn in the fact that He
240 1, 17| the manner of corporeal childbearing, but was born perfect God
241 1, 20| procreation of corporeal children that the incorporeal Son
242 1, 34| Coele Syria, Mesopotamia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Paphlagonia,
243 1, 11| which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision
244 1, 1 | by writing from several cities of the Roman world frequently
245 1, 77| now bursts forth backed by civil authority, and what it once
246 1, 75| gain power by seeing but claims power on the authority of
247 1, 53| 53. The further clause makes liable to anathema
248 1, 76| misunderstanding are being cleared away. They will pardon me
249 1, 50| the Person of the Son. The clearness of these statements absolves
250 1 | Novempopulana, and to the laity and clergy of Tolosa in the Provincia
251 1, 23| unity of person under the cloak of an essential likeness,
252 1, 87| that He is begotten yet co-eternal and wholly like the Father.
253 1, 34| Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia, Coele Syria, Mesopotamia, Cilicia,
254 1, 84| the darkness be thought coeval with God who dwells in the
255 1, 63| faults which we now have to combat. They are not laymen but
256 1, 18| own nature. The two things combined become one, and that one
257 1, 84| should before His passion command that a sword should be brought;
258 1, 2 | as my fellow-bishops, who communicate with me in Christ. I, who
259 1, 20| express a natural and genuine community of essence: for they are
260 1, 72| are similar, I mean that I compare what is exactly like. I
261 1, 51| the Lord and the Lord. No comparison is made because it was seen
262 1, 3 | them so vigorously as to compel those who at Sirmium yielded
263 1, 27| or accepted it after its compilation, they have thereby compelled
264 1, 78| o0moiou/sion. I do not greatly complain of the pardon you extended
265 1, 63| sign another. I make no complaint against these long-suffering
266 1, 66| the exposition is actually completed.~
267 1, 7 | Therefore I comply with your affectionate and
268 1, 28| at different occasions to compose other creeds, the character
269 1, 62| boundless God cannot be made comprehensible by a few words of human
270 1, 63| bishop Eleusiusand his few comrades, the greater part of the
271 1, 6 | will result in those who conceal their heresy being unable
272 1, 6 | argument has been grasped, to conceive a prejudice on account of
273 1, 62| learner and teacher, and a concentrated discourse either causes
274 1, 35| exposition of this creed, concise but complete definitions
275 1, 61| Synod was held necessarily concluded with an explanation of the
276 1, 31| and the Son, especially in concluding that the names Father, Son
277 1, 63| say nothing, I leave his conduct in the background lest man'
278 1, 8 | especially needful that I, who am confined in the East, should explain
279 1, 82| pray you to let there be no conflict of suspicions where there
280 1, 27| Son is not annihilated and confounded with the Father: there the
281 1, 80| to revive the error of confounding the Persons and denying
282 1, 20| 20. By confused and involved expressions
283 1, 63| I think it a subject of congratulation that a single penitent should
284 1, 16| origin as thus stated is connected the perfect birth of the
285 1, 3 | Yes, brethren, you have conquered, to the abundant joy of
286 1, 63| who meanwhile retain and conscientiously confess the whole apostolic
287 1, 40| What is omitted that the consciousness of a sincere faith could
288 1, 1 | affairs of the Church in consequence of your prolonged silence.
289 1, 66| were few in number, for, considering how numerous the Eastern
290 1, 8 | Bithynia did refuse with firm consistency of faith to hold communion
291 1, 75| power. But His obedience consists in His being able only when
292 1, 53| sent by the Son for our consolation is the Unborn God.~XX. "
293 1, 48| through being Flesh what constituted the Word, nor has become
294 1, 90| the interpretation, let us consult together. Between us we
295 1, 28| for us to bring to a full consummation, such as religion and unity
296 1, 2 | pure and undefiled by the contagion of any execrable heresy,
297 1, 7 | employed. If they be thought to contain anything faulty, no one
298 1, 11| consideration that they are not contained in the divine Scriptures,
299 1, 78| that your faith should be contaminated by communion with the guilt
300 1, 4 | of conscious worth, and content with repudiating crafty,
301 1, 22| an emanation so that by a continual flow of a corporeal uninterrupted
302 1, 91| hearts, and that you may continue to hold what you hold now.
303 1, 2 | in the Lord that you had continued pure and undefiled by the
304 1, 38| the dead; whose kingdom continueth without end and remaineth
305 1, 22| successive and unbroken continuity. But the birth is perfect,
306 1, 3 | composed at Sirmium, they contradicted its audacious authors by
307 1, 52| perversity calls for no contradiction: and yet the mad frenzy
308 1, 84| think, should prove that the contradictions of the law make it its own
309 1, 85| If their opinions were contradictory, we ought to decide which
310 1, 23| all human calculation: for contravening the teaching of the Gospel
311 1, 63| what you held when new-born converts. But necessity has introduced
312 1, 59| to the Son a birth that conveyed the essence of His nature.~
313 1, 66| have also declared my own convictions about divine things, according
314 1, 77| days it was only in obscure corners that our Lord Jesus Christ
315 1, 39| stealthy subtle heresy by a corresponding form of pure and unsullied
316 1, 8 | shining lights in future Councils, differing, through a mistake
317 1, 8 | some godly and faithful counsel. For the word of God cannot
318 1, 10| Easterns who endeavoured to counteract all the wiles of the heretics
319 1, 32| impiety which by a mere counting of names evades the truth
320 1, 91| passed beyond the bounds of courtesy, and forgetting my modesty
321 1, 42| as to represent, trader cover of the unity of name, that
322 1, 88| but not sheep's milk: for cow's milk certainly looks like
323 1, 17| definite moment. And He who creates makes His object through
324 1, 7 | can doubt that it is no credit to the interpreter but to
325 1, 77| tried by secret mines to creep into the Catholic Church,
326 1, 81| But I am not needlessly critical on this point. For I had
327 1, 84| we must not glory in the cross of Christ, because it is
328 1, 18| His natural generation, crushes the impious opinion that
329 1, 63| necessity has introduced the custom of ex-pounding creeds and
330 1, 68| is divided, and that He cut off a portion of Himself
331 1, 34| Pisidia, the islands of the Cyclades, Pamphylia, Caria, Lydia,
332 1, 69| Therefore amid the numerous dangers which threaten the faith,
333 1, 20| essence of the Father by daring to attribute to Him in the
334 1, 84| Methuselah extend later than the date of the deluge, and consequently
335 1, 61| beginning of the Son of God dated from His birth of Mary.
336 1, 1 | and tongue hissed out his deadly doctrine, I was afraid.
337 1, 80| opinions are the same. But in dealing with the o0moou/sion, or
338 1, 91| appearing is my desire, dearest brethren.~ ~
339 1 | Text~To the most dearly loved and blessed brethren
340 1, 76| faults which may arise from a deceitful brevity or dangerous simplicity
341 1, 6 | being unable to practise the deception they wish, and in true Catholics
342 1, 88| word o0moiou/sion. Many deceptions come from similarity. I
343 1, 85| contradictory, we ought to decide which is the better: but
344 1, 62| set forth by the separate declarations inscribed in this creed.
345 1, 74| eternity, I ask why they decline to say He is equal? In the
346 1, 28| held an the occasion of the Dedication of the church at Antioch
347 1, 63| Hosius forgot his former deeds and words, and a fresh yet
348 1, 4 | For since we all suffered deep and grievous pain at the
349 1, 1 | holding your peace because a defiled and sin-stained conscience
350 1, 17| nothing begins to exist at a definite moment. And He who creates
351 1, 20| the essence of the Father degenerated in begetting the Son. For
352 1, 27| begetting the Son in no wise degenerates from Himself in Him through
353 1, 51| a diversity of different deities in the Lord and the Lord.
354 1, 2 | was now bound to express delight at the purity of our common
355 1, 84| later than the date of the deluge, and consequently more than
356 1, 28| such as religion and unity demand, the argument in which we
357 1, 80| Ursacius and Germinius demanded should be read at Sirmium,
358 1, 13| necessary that the image should demonstrate him of whom it is an image.
359 1, 62| and is not proved by full demonstration. The bishops fully understood
360 1, 68| personal existence although denoted by two titles: then though
361 1, 2 | Council of Biterrae, where I denounced the ringleaders of this
362 1, 37| long ago when Photinus was deposed from the episcopate.A copy
363 1, 4 | expatriation of bishops, the deposition of priests, the intimidation
364 1, 59| He should be thought to derive His essence only at His
365 1, 84| lest He who was about to descend into hell should say that
366 1, 78| excuse themselves for having desired silence as to o0moou/sion
367 1, 27| their diction rather than desiring to be thought the originators
368 1, 1 | conscience tempted you to despair. Ignorance I could not attribute
369 1, 20| far as in them lies they destroy the very birthless and changeless
370 1, 46| 46. Heretics, destroying as far as in them lies the
371 1, 4 | threatening of the faith, and the determination of the meaning of Christ'
372 1, 63| readier pardon than their detraction. These faithful bishops
373 1, 17| parturition, without any detriment or change of self created
374 1, 27| meaning, following their diction rather than desiring to
375 1, 91| would be full of peace to die. That our God and Lord may
376 1, 70| glorifiedI will not hear He died unless I hear He rose again.
377 1, 22| for such identity without differentiation excludes birth. For what
378 1, 62| saturated with the truth thus differently expressed, and that in treating
379 1, 36| declared to be one. So by the diligent and watchful care of the
380 1, 85| eternal priesthood. The former disapproved of it to oppose a heretic:
381 1, 80| mentioned this reason for disapproving of the o0moou/sion that
382 1, 29| Jesus Christ ordained His disciples, saying, Go ye, and teach
383 1, 1 | Evil One profiting by the discords of the times had with envenomed
384 1, 62| teacher, and a concentrated discourse either causes a subject
385 1, 91| in Christ. It is yours to discuss, to provide and to act,
386 1, 11| carefully investigated and discussed at Sirmium in the presence
387 1, 12| meaning of essence, lest in discussing facts we prove ignorant
388 1, 84| Son, but the FatherWe must dispense, too, with the books of
389 1, 29| the Creator, Maker and Disposer of all things that are,
390 1, 78| about the matter, or any dispute. But suppose they did not
391 1, 9 | argument about suspicions and dissensions as to words, to give as
392 1, 15| Father in species, and not disssimilar in genus; since the similarity
393 1, 63| I am not speaking about distant events or writing down incidents
394 1, 80| and denying the personal distinctions in the Godhead. Thirdly
395 1, 4 | Church began to be harried by disturbances such as the expatriation
396 1, 67| subsistent personality or divide the one substance into two,
397 1, 33| Therefore this Council by dividing the three substances, which
398 1, 71| begotten nature, not from any division, any confusion of Persons,
399 1, 11| teach, and especially the doctor of the Gentiles himself,
400 1, 3 | ignorance and error in so doing; in fact they had to condemn
401 1, 70| forty days He said, Man doth not live by bread aloneI
402 1, 3 | unimpaired constancy gained the double glory of keeping a pure
403 1, 35| source than God, it cannot be doubted that He was born with those
404 1, 33| God, there is no room for doubting that whole God is born of
405 1, 23| serpents, and harmless as doves. Christ therefore wished
406 1, 35| this source from which He drew His permanent birth should
407 1, 70| unless I also hear Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
408 1, 90| heretics, lest while we drive one heresy away, we nurture
409 1, 73| we allow minds that are dulled with the weight of sin to
410 1, 84| thought coeval with God who dwells in the unborn light, since
411 1, 77| Ye who have begun to be eager for apostolic and evangelical
412 1, 28| the results, it will be easier for us to bring to a full
413 1, 5 | it in my heart; far less easy must it be to expound the
414 1, 74| Him whom He begat without effect upon Himself a nature which
415 1, 1 | informed you of the faith and efforts of our religions brethren,
416 1, 34| the East, namely, Thebais, Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia,
417 1, 84| and consequently more than eight souls were savedlest God
418 1, 85| it; but three hundred and eighteen recently accepted it. And
419 1, 85| Arians right in denying it? Eighty bishops once rejected it;
420 1, 20| heretics very frequently elude the truth and secure the
421 1, 60| one God, and in order to embrace the Only-begotten nature,
422 1, 15| image of the invisible God embraces in Himself the whole form
423 1, 27| assembly against the recently emerging heresy. And we, as far as
424 1, 42| the name which religion employs and which is based on the
425 1, 90| the fathers, let us not encourage heretics, lest while we
426 1, 10| side by those Easterns who endeavoured to counteract all the wiles
427 1, 84| the law make it its own enemy. So as they do not understand
428 1, 63| bishops. But, brethren, you enjoy happiness and glory in the
429 1, 14| will declare that He who enjoys life and He through whom
430 1, 15| is indistinguishable and entirely similar. For since He is
431 1, 1 | after a first and second entreaty, and in spite of the witness
432 1, 1 | discords of the times had with envenomed lips and tongue hissed out
433 1, 8 | also seemed fit to use my episcopal office and authority, when
434 1, 84| sponge should annihilate the Epistle to the Philippians, lest
435 1, 90| exile, but the Gospels and Epistles suggested to me the meaning
436 1, 13| indistinguishable likeness of one thing equated with another. Therefore
437 1, 87| when you condemn its verbal equivalent. Do others misunderstand
438 1, 84| is our fear, we ought to erase the words of the Apostle,
439 1, 69| saying all this, he does not err in declaring one substance
440 1, 2 | was free from all these errors, was now bound to express
441 1, 16| essence, as life of life, is essentially like itself, and the essence
442 1, 90| Between us we can thoroughly establish the faith, so that what
443 1, 85| approval and disapproval established the same fact, why do we
444 1, 6 | about some who in their own esteem are very cautious and prudent
445 1, 34| Pamphylia, Caria, Lydia, from Europe, namely, Thrace, Haemimontus
446 1, 89| my holy brethren, Basil, Eustathius, and Eleusius, omitted to
447 1, 32| a mere counting of names evades the truth as to the Father
448 1, 63| not speaking about distant events or writing down incidents
449 | everything
450 1, 11| Ursacius and Germinius.~It is evident that there is one God, the
451 1, 63| introduced the custom of ex-pounding creeds and signing expositions.
452 1, 6 | these lines to read and examine them has only to be consistently
453 1, 2 | by the contagion of any execrable heresy, and that you were
454 1, 8 | the word of God cannot be exiled as our bodies are, or so
455 1, 43| foreknowledge rather than born and existent before the ages in the substance
456 1, 83| and shared a previously existing substance to make it their
457 1, 45| say that the Unborn God by expansion of His substance extended
458 1, 4 | disturbances such as the expatriation of bishops, the deposition
459 1, 78| their age and with their experience they were really ignorant.
460 1, 76| are one.77. Beloved, after explaining in a faithful and godly
461 1, 63| ex-pounding creeds and signing expositions. Where the conscience is
462 1, 5 | less easy must it be to expound the statements of others.~
463 1, 31| this creed has not spoken expressly enough of the identical
464 1, 84| the years of Methuselah extend later than the date of the
465 1, 45| Virgin, in order that this extension produced by the increase
466 1, 82| right should that which extinguished the wrong be called to account?
467 1, 77| reproach of impiety in the eyes of God and men, when he
468 1, 10| though against my will, to facilitate a more complete knowledge
469 1, 23| the Father and the Son and faithfully has instructed us that In
470 1, 39| were instances of peculiar faithlessness. Immediately after the universal
471 1, 86| into what straits shall we fall at last, if while we do
472 1, 47| man and not God; and he falls under the same condemnation
473 1, 78| seeing that it is only by a falsehood that they can clear themselves
474 1, 61| being opposed. This heresy falsely stated that the beginning
475 1, 3 | authoritative example. For the fame of your unswerving and unshaken
476 1, 70| unless I hear that after His fast of forty days He said, Man
477 1, 7 | thought to contain anything faulty, no one can impute the fault
478 1, 77| power of this world in the fawning. manners of a false religion.
479 1, 1 | doctrine, I was afraid. I feared lest while so many bishops
480 1, 2 | exile into which Saturninus, fearing his own conscience, had
481 1, 81| something which all our fellow-Christians unanimously condemn. What
482 1, 5 | you prove your warmth and fervour of spirit by the fact that
483 1, 63| and words, and a fresh yet festering heresy broke out at Sirmium.
484 1, 91| act, that the inviolable fidelity in which you stand you may
485 1, 13| image. So an image is the figured and indistinguishable likeness
486 1, 84| paradise with the thief; lest finally the Apostles should be found
487 1, 29| glory of the Godhead, the first-born of all creation, who always
488 1, 32| the Paraclete, it is more fitting that a unity of agreement
489 1, 88| meat, but afterwards the flavour has revealed the difference
490 1, 80| between themselves. I see the flaw in that way of taking it.
491 1, 55| often affirmed amid other follies by godless men, it was needful
492 1, 55| the Son? But since this folly is often affirmed amid other
493 1, 32| besought the patience anti forbearance of my readers and hearers
494 1, 77| for exile, by trying to force me to commit blasphemy.
495 1, 51| 51. The foregoing and the following statements
496 1, 63| lest man's judgment should forget what once he was. But everywhere
497 1, 91| bounds of courtesy, and forgetting my modesty I have been compelled
498 1, 63| was first felt when Hosius forgot his former deeds and words,
499 | formerly
500 1, 18| Son's Father by nature, so forms the Son as to beget Him.