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501 1, 27| Eastern bishops which they formulated in their assembly against
502 | forty
503 1, 70| rose again. Let us bring forward no isolated point of the
504 1, 3 | some shame for the heresy fostered and supported in those regions:
505 1, 2 | firm house built on the foundation of the faithful rock, for
506 1, 77| that of his advisers. He freed himself from the reproach
507 1, 76| proceed to speak somewhat freely with them on the basis of
508 1, 28| wording. For when you are frilly aware of the results, it
509 1, 26| is the one sole author froth eternity of its being what
510 1, 36| consequently many gods. Furthermore in the nature of God, God
511 1, 86| silence about both. Amid the fury of the heretics into what
512 1, 3 | your unimpaired constancy gained the double glory of keeping
513 1, 34| Cappadocia, Pontus, Paphlagonia, Galatia, Bithynia and Hellespont,
514 1, 29| Resurrection the Shepherd, the Gate, unable to change or alter,
515 1, 73| equality, and this fact we may gather from the Holy Scriptures,
516 1, 78| Scripture: I enquire whence they gathered that the Son jointly suffered?
517 1, 79| I am not presumptuous in gathering from this that I too may
518 1, 75| 75. Although general conviction and divine authority
519 1, 84| erroneous interpretation is generally put upon it. If such is
520 1, 35| Only-begotten essence of the Son is generated neither from things which
521 1, 84| the unborn light, since in Genesis the day began to be after
522 1, 89| the creed, and I did not get it from laymen, it was given
523 1, 64| always from guile by the gift of the Holy Spirit, we confess
524 1, 70| the Son of man should be glorifiedI will not hear He died unless
525 1, 82| its own witness. If the godlessness of the negation then gave
526 1, 89| Ancyra. I am not talking gossip: I possess a copy of the
527 1, 78| meant of a like essence. Granted that they were ignorant
528 1, 6 | complete argument has been grasped, to conceive a prejudice
529 1, 68| of our good confession so gratifies them that it aids heresy
530 1, 86| man who loves a peaceful grave too well, who shall be found
531 1, 76| phrases one substance, in Greeko0moou/sion, and similar substance
532 1, 4 | we all suffered deep and grievous pain at the actions of the
533 1, 23| of which we have spoken guarded against the teaching of
534 1, 36| of the bishops the creed guards the similarity of the nature
535 1, 64| 64. Kept always from guile by the gift of the Holy
536 1, 78| contaminated by communion with the guilt of heresy.~
537 1, 34| Europe, namely, Thrace, HaemimontusMoesia, and the two provinces
538 1, 8 | mistake about words, even a hair's-breadth from pure Catholic
539 1, 63| But, brethren, you enjoy happiness and glory in the Lord, who
540 1, 90| with a word which does no harm to the meaning of' religion.
541 1, 4 | that the Church began to be harried by disturbances such as
542 1, 83| substance: not certainly to hatch the heresy which arises
543 1, 81| sion we not only reject but hate. The question of an erroneous
544 1, 1 | hear, are to be unto us as heathen men and publicans~~~~~~
545 1, 34| after His return into the heavens to teach them and to bring
546 1, 60| incapable of birth is the height of impiety. God would no
547 1, 84| was about to descend into hell should say that He would
548 1, 34| Paphlagonia, Galatia, Bithynia and Hellespont, from Asia, namely, the
549 1, 26| to time), so that by the help of this repudiation of time,
550 1, 87| o0moou/sion but it greatly helped my belief. Why do you condemn
551 | Hence
552 | Hereby
553 1, 89| brethren, of the brood of heresies which are successively produced
554 1, 68| fellow-heirs are two, and the heritage of which they are fellow-heirs
555 1, 4 | repudiating crafty, vague, or hesitating action, safely abides in
556 1, 84| foolish? Because they are hidden from the godless, shall
557 1, 19| attain to the might of a higher and more powerful nature.
558 1, 6 | think of themselves more highly than they ought : for I
559 1 | the provinces of Britain, Hilary the servant of Christ, eternal
560 1, 79| Not that I have dared to hint that you are ignorant of
561 1, 62| argument where a thing is hinted at, and is not proved by
562 1, 1 | envenomed lips and tongue hissed out his deadly doctrine,
563 1, 1 | disastrous mistake, you were holding your peace because a defiled
564 1, 39| was sapping our Catholic home by many secret mines. Their
565 1, 4 | invincible faith keeps the honourable distinction of conscious
566 1, 78| read that the Son is to be honoured even as the Father, that
567 1, 17| imply formation or creation; hot they omit the following
568 1, 2 | noble hearts, for your firm house built on the foundation
569 | however
570 1, 70| will not hear Christ was hungry, unless I hear that after
571 1, 82| I would advance anything hurtful to the progress of unity.
572 1, 4 | perceiving that by the act of hypocritical assent it would bring itself
573 1, 8 | of the apostolic faith is identically the same and you are Catholics
574 1, 29| words not being set forth idly and without meaning, but
575 1, 58| necessity of nature, to beget Ills Son; but as soon as He willed,
576 1, 15| perfect likeness of the nature imaged in Himself.~IV. "And if
577 1, 22| not countenance this vain imagination; for such identity without
578 1, 2 | of a will that has proved immaculate! For since the good profession
579 1, 11| beginning and is invisible, immortal and impassible, but that
580 1, 8 | bound that it cannot be imparted to you in any place. But
581 1, 46| the unembodied sound of an impersonal voice: so that God the Father
582 1, 77| was regenerate by baptism imposed a form of faith upon the
583 1, 73| sluggish senses against their impregnable assertions? According to
584 1, 87| that the Arians may not impugn the word. Have we to fear
585 1, 7 | anything faulty, no one can impute the fault to me: for I am
586 1, 88| offended. I am troubled by the inadequacy of the word o0moiou/sion.
587 1, 5 | my skill and learning are inadequate, for I feel it most difficult
588 1, 46| we utter in virtue of our inborn power of speaking. Therefore
589 1, 60| for the very reason that incapability of birth is the only quality
590 1, 43| concerning the mysteries of His incarnation and passion were simply
591 1, 63| distant events or writing down incidents of which I know nothing:
592 1, 14| whose image is understood to include essence) is Son in essence,
593 1, 67| qualities and such a likeness as includes not only the species but
594 1, 39| exposition of the creed including many intricate questions,
595 1, 84| their statements be found inconsistent; lest we should read that
596 1, 63| strength of the wicked has been increased by the exile of some of
597 1, 5 | witness to the uninterrupted independence and security of your faith;
598 1, 5 | additional burden upon me of indicating my sentiments on all their
599 1, 36| except as it is given to individual men and angels in recognition
600 1, 63| which you may judge. Certain individuals have acted so wrongly as
601 1, 79| listen to my anxieties with indulgence. The Lord is my witness
602 1, 59| in God the Father in the ineffable and perfect birth of the
603 1, 77| checking the bold attack of infidelity! In former days it was only
604 1, 73| begot in Seth? Remove bodily infirmities, remove the first stage
605 1, 49| is the endurance of pains inflicted, and since the Godhead is
606 1, 3 | raising some scruples, and inflicting some wounds upon a sensitive
607 1, 77| hypocrisy of the men whose influence brought him under this reproach.~
608 1, 1 | the Roman world frequently informed you of the faith and efforts
609 1, 6 | prejudice on account of initial statements, the reason of
610 1, 23| similarity of nature does not injure personality by making the
611 1, 69| conscientious and unsuspecting innocence. A Catholic about to state
612 1, 81| pass by this question of innovation, and see whether the real
613 1, 62| the separate declarations inscribed in this creed. Every separate
614 1, 22| Him who is being born is inseparable from that of Him who begets,
615 1, 25| like the Father, by the insertion of times between Himself
616 1, 41| states it gives us a clear insight into the fact. For since
617 1, 26| unity of Persons should insinuate itself, that impiety is
618 1, 15| 15. It is here insisted that the nature is indistinguishable
619 1, 7 | the decision your faith inspires whether their spirit is
620 1, 39| the faith as there were instances of peculiar faithlessness.
621 1, 23| the Son and faithfully has instructed us that In the beginning
622 1, 17| has no need of passion or intercourse or parturition. And that
623 1, 28| argument in which we are interested.~An exposition of the faith
624 1, 73| with the weight of sin to interfere with the doctrines and sayings
625 1, 57| His own nature. The Jews interpret this passage as proving
626 1, 7 | that it is no credit to the interpreter but to the originator. In
627 1, 50| us from the necessity of interpreting them.~XVII. "If any man
628 1, 84| refuse to read it because he interprets it mischievously. And the
629 1, 35| But the creed also rejects intervals of times or ages: on the
630 1, 4 | deposition of priests, the intimidation of the people, the threatening
631 1, 39| the creed including many intricate questions, because the heresy
632 1, 33| threefold title, did not introduce any separation of substance
633 1, 63| converts. But necessity has introduced the custom of ex-pounding
634 1, 83| Council of religious men introduces no prior substance divided
635 1, 32| Persons, and not thereby introducing any dissimilarity of essence
636 1, 28| times when you repelled the introduction of this heresy. The reason
637 1, 15| nature begotten in Him is invested with the properties of the
638 1, 66| apostles. it remains for you to investigate without suspicion the points
639 1, 11| points have been carefully investigated and discussed at Sirmium
640 1, 6 | decision for the sake of investigation, but on the conclusion for
641 1, 4 | But your invincible faith keeps the honourable
642 1, 91| provide and to act, that the inviolable fidelity in which you stand
643 1, 15| viz., glory, worth, power, invisibility, essence? And while these
644 1, 78| is not one and the same inwardly and outwardly, it ignorance
645 1, 34| of Phrygia, Pisidia, the islands of the Cyclades, Pamphylia,
646 1, 70| Let us bring forward no isolated point of the divine mysteries
647 1, 87| misunderstand it? Let us join in condemning the misunderstanding,
648 1, 3 | conquered, to the abundant joy of those who share your
649 1, 73| of Him: this fact alone justices the assertion that they
650 1, 11| is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith,
651 1, 3 | gained the double glory of keeping a pure conscience and giving
652 1, 17| following sentence, which is the key to the first, and from the
653 1, 73| Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only
654 1, 77| and evangelical doctrine, kindled by the fire of faith amid
655 1, 49| into Flesh. Though these kinds of suffering affect the
656 1, 85| Abraham overcame the wicked kings, and was blessed by Him
657 1, 84| But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not tire angels
658 1, 48| life in His death? God knowing no change, when made Flesh
659 1, 76| the Son cannot be said to lack the true qualities of the
660 1, 10| they implied that the Son lacked those things which constitute
661 1, 65| belief but words that are lacking. Perhaps I shall thereby
662 1 | Novempopulana, and to the laity and clergy of Tolosa in
663 1, 29| Scriptures, and was made the Lambthe Mediator between God
664 1, 76| dangerous simplicity of language, it only remains for me
665 1, 10| the Father's superiority. Lastly, that while it is affirmed
666 1, 10| that in the Blasphemia, lately written at Sirmium, the
667 1, 9 | translation from Greek into Latin, and to be absolutely literal
668 1, 63| to find either priest or layman that belongs to this faith,
669 1, 75| both Moses and John would lead us to believe the Son is
670 1, 29| Apostle of our faith, and leader of life. For He said, I
671 1, 84| of John, lest Sabellius learn from it, I and the Father
672 1, 62| Brevity often misleads both learner and teacher, and a concentrated
673 1, 5 | I know that my skill and learning are inadequate, for I feel
674 1, 8 | any place. But when I had learnt that synods were to meet
675 | least
676 1, 80| because the use of this word led to the idea that there was
677 1, 51| That the Son is not on a level with the Father and is not
678 1, 53| The further clause makes liable to anathema the predicating
679 1, 4 | preserving the profession of its liberty. You abstain from communion
680 1, 78| excuse, I fear that they lied in professing ignorance
681 1, 19| given to the Son to have lift in Himself. In life is implied
682 1, 8 | I hope to see as shining lights in future Councils, differing,
683 1, 27| Fatherhood is not bound by limits of times: there the Son
684 1, 6 | But whoever takes up these lines to read and examine them
685 1, 88| and yet by tasting the liquor have recognized that it
686 1, 79| beseech you, holy brethren, to listen to my anxieties with indulgence.
687 1, 44| Spirit and breathes where He listeth, does not expand or contract
688 1, 9 | Latin, and to be absolutely literal is to be sometimes partly
689 1, 65| power. If I have said too little, nay, if I have said almost
690 1, 73| Holy Scriptures, And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years,
691 1, 84| death in connection with the living God, lest the godless argue
692 1, 63| complaint against these long-suffering Eastern bishops, it was
693 1, 88| another kind. I have seen meat look like other meat, but afterwards
694 1, 33| Lord. In `Lord' also the lordship is equal: there can be no
695 1, 51| subordination of filial love is not a diminution of essence,
696 1 | Text~To the most dearly loved and blessed brethren our
697 1, 86| Hosius, that old man who loves a peaceful grave too well,
698 1, 34| Cyclades, Pamphylia, Caria, Lydia, from Europe, namely, Thrace,
699 1, 78| difficult not to think they are lying, seeing that it is only
700 1, 52| contradiction: and yet the mad frenzy of certain men has
701 1, 45| His nature and assuming manhood might be called Son. They
702 1, 29| Son, and of the Holy Ghostmanifestly, that is, of a Father who
703 1, 20| own, for a perfect birth manifests no diversity between itself
704 1, 62| things these adequate and manifold definitions might leave
705 1, 77| this world in the fawning. manners of a false religion. For
706 1, 84| to the Philippians, lest Marcion should read again in it,
707 1, 27| the proper qualities which mark this likeness are repugnant
708 1, 78| deceived. This very document is marked by hypocrisy. They excuse
709 1, 80| qualities, and, under the mask of the aforesaid expressions,
710 1, 73| holy men, and impiously match our rash though sluggish
711 1, 49| such pains found in Him a material which they could affect
712 1, 22| not taking its beginning materially from a corporeal conception
713 1, 91| write thus of many abstruse matters which until this our age
714 | meanwhile
715 1, 3 | onset of heresy, and now by meeting that onset you have broken
716 1, 6 | Now I beseech you by the mercy of the Lord, that as I will
717 1, 43| creation, and that He was not merely predestined to be born.~
718 1, 36| in recognition of their merit, though the substance of
719 1, 34| Phoenicia, Coele Syria, Mesopotamia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Pontus,
720 1, 84| holy Gospels with their message of our salvation, lest their
721 1, 84| night; lest the years of Methuselah extend later than the date
722 1, 48| whence came to His Flesh miraculous power in working, glory
723 1, 84| because he interprets it mischievously. And the fire or the sponge
724 1, 66| suspicion the points that mislead the unguarded temper of
725 1, 62| human speech. Brevity often misleads both learner and teacher,
726 1, 78| God rather grant that I am mistaken than that they really knew.
727 1, 78| His own prerogatives, and mistakes of ignorance are but human.
728 1, 90| disturbed, and what has been misunderstood may be removed.~
729 1, 91| courtesy, and forgetting my modesty I have been compelled by
730 1, 34| namely, Thrace, HaemimontusMoesia, and the two provinces of
731 1, 26| we saw that it would be monstrous if the Father were limited
732 1, 48| in working, glory on the Mount, knowledge of the thoughts
733 1, 3 | unswerving and unshaken faith has moved certain Eastern bishops,
734 1, 77| authority, and what it once muttered in secret it has of late
735 1 | Tolosa in the Provincia Narbonensis, and to the bishops of the
736 1, 63| written creeds. You have not needed the letter, for you abounded
737 1, 81| 82. But I am not needlessly critical on this point.
738 1, 82| If the godlessness of the negation then gave a godly meaning
739 1, 1 | the witness of the Church, neglect to hear, are to be unto
740 1, 63| bishops what you held when new-born converts. But necessity
741 1, 90| bishop, I never heard of the Nicene creed until I was going
742 1, 28| the church at Antioch by ninety-seven bishops there present, because
743 1, 32| these names makes the triple nomenclature imply only one Person, so
744 1, 2 | as soon as reported and notified. I felt that it was now
745 1, 5 | I, unfit as I am, should notify to you what the Easterns
746 1, 84| to you, who are no longer nourished with milk, but with meat,
747 1, 19| for speaking profane and novel words against the essence
748 1, 80| repudiated on account of its novelty, I am afraid that the word
749 1 | Aquitania, and the province of Novempopulana, and to the laity and clergy
750 | nowhere
751 1, 19| the essence of the Son and nullifying His true divine Sonship,
752 1, 69| He remained, that He was obedient unto death. He did not spring
753 1, 32| agreement one, are free from objection, because as the Spirit is
754 1, 82| presents no difficulty. Who objects to the fact that the Council
755 1, 77| former days it was only in obscure corners that our Lord Jesus
756 1, 1 | therefore that I also ought to observe silence towards you, carefully
757 1, 23| wise. This precept has been observed in the exposition of this
758 1, 63| should be found among such obstinate, blaspheming and heretical
759 1, 74| ask whence equality can be obtained? If the Son is like the
760 1, 69| word be judged guilty of occasioning heresy when it has been
761 1, 28| was necessary at different occasions to compose other creeds,
762 | off
763 1, 89| mention lest they should give offence. If it was right to draw
764 1, 88| hear me again and be not offended. I am troubled by the inadequacy
765 1, 88| o0moou/sion troubles and offends me.' I pray you hear me
766 1, 37| Sirmium by the Easterns to offense Photinus.~
767 1, 86| of them but Hosius, that old man who loves a peaceful
768 1, 17| formation or creation; hot they omit the following sentence,
769 1, 19| assertions say about the omnipotence of God the Father, if the
770 1, 71| unity of Persons. Let the oneness be due to the fact that
771 1, 77| has of late boasted of in open triumph. Whereas in former
772 1, 77| faith upon the churches. Opposing bishops they drove into
773 1, 62| profusion of words that the ordinary understanding might find
774 1, 89| with the assent of certain Orientals, took on your embassy to
775 1, 75| He shewed that the Father originates by saying Can do nothing
776 1, 7 | the interpreter but to the originator. In any case I have sent
777 1, 27| desiring to be thought the originators of new phrases. In these
778 1, 10| Blasphemia composed at Sirmium by Osius and Polamius.~
779 | Otherwise
780 1, 11| substance, called in Greek ou0si/a, that is, to make it understood
781 | ourselves
782 1, 80| points no less cautious than outspoken. And with regard to o0moou/
783 1, 78| and the same inwardly and outwardly, it ignorance on such a
784 | over
785 1, 85| with such a number Abraham overcame the wicked kings, and was
786 1, 59| like all other things, owe His existence to God's will,
787 1, 91| believed, conscious that I owed it as my soldier's service
788 1, 34| namely, Thebais, Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia, Coele
789 1, 34| islands of the Cyclades, Pamphylia, Caria, Lydia, from Europe,
790 1, 34| and the two provinces of Pannonia, have set forth this creed.~"
791 1, 34| Cilicia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Paphlagonia, Galatia, Bithynia and Hellespont,
792 1, 84| say that He would be in paradise with the thief; lest finally
793 1, 17| changeless nature of her Parent, which nature, unlike the
794 1, 2 | and spirit, and so were partakers of that exile into which
795 1, 9 | literal is to be sometimes partly unintelligible.~
796 1, 81| rejecting it. So, then, we will pass by this question of innovation,
797 1, 3 | its audacious authors by passing certain decrees themselves.
798 1, 33| One of One excludes the passions of a human birth and conception,
799 1, 5 | although in all your actions, past and present, you bear witness
800 1, 40| between the sole-existing paternal essence and its offspring
801 1, 62| has been sought by many paths through the advice and opinions
802 1, 32| argument I besought the patience anti forbearance of my readers
803 1, 6 | only to be consistently patient with me and with himself
804 1, 2 | their slow arrival and their paucity were due to the remoteness
805 1, 86| that old man who loves a peaceful grave too well, who shall
806 1, 8 | the Council which seemed pending in Bithynia did refuse with
807 1, 63| congratulation that a single penitent should be found among such
808 1, 4 | the intimidation of the people, the threatening of the
809 1, 62| 62. You perceive that the truth has been
810 1, 4 | that it can tolerate them, perceiving that by the act of hypocritical
811 1, 82| thing that I speak of. The perfidy of the Arians is to be found
812 1, 12| essence of that thing which permanently exists in the nature, genus,
813 1, 78| ignorance on such a point is permissible, then believe that they
814 1, 65| our wonted human speech permitted and the Lord, whom I have
815 1, 38| without end and remaineth for perpetual ages. For He shall be sitting
816 1, 35| beginning but continues perpetually. And lest this source from
817 1, 3 | of a holy and steadfast perseverance without yielding to the
818 1, 6 | me and with himself and peruse the whole to its completion.
819 1, 43| foreknowledge. Consequently this perverse doctrine is condemned, so
820 1, 21| the vices of particular perversions, and countenance no opportunity
821 1, 30| anathema to every heretical and perverted sect, and if any man teaches
822 1, 10| have subjoined in full this pestilent and godless blasphemy, though
823 1, 84| Christ's body was only a phantasm and not a body. Away with
824 1, 84| annihilate the Epistle to the Philippians, lest Marcion should read
825 1, 34| Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia, Coele Syria, Mesopotamia,
826 1, 34| namely, the two provinces of Phrygia, Pisidia, the islands of
827 1, 88| according to essence when one piece of metal is like another
828 1, 3 | wounds upon a sensitive piety, yet they withstood them
829 1, 34| two provinces of Phrygia, Pisidia, the islands of the Cyclades,
830 1, 33| both without diversity. But plainest of all is the statement
831 1, 9 | these transactions very plainly, but much obscurity is caused
832 1, 74| they will, and insert the poison of their blasphemy into
833 1, 10| at Sirmium by Osius and Polamius.~
834 1, 34| Mesopotamia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Paphlagonia, Galatia, Bithynia
835 1, 72| exactly like. I ask what position equal holds between like
836 1, 16| has what He gave; and as possessing life He gave life to be
837 1, 3 | yielded to the views of Potamius and Hosius as accepting
838 1, 19| might of a higher and more powerful nature. What will the men
839 1, 3 | yielding to the threats, the powers and the assaults of Saturninus:
840 1, 6 | their heresy being unable to practise the deception they wish,
841 1, 2 | purity of our common faith. Praise God for the unshaken stability
842 1, 91| Remember my exile in your holy prayers. I do not know, now that
843 1, 47| substance, but only by such pre-eminence as His birthless nature
844 1, 23| Person and the Son another, a preaching of the dissimilarity of
845 1, 53| makes liable to anathema the predicating Unborn God of the Paraclete.
846 1, 78| as the Father, that they prefer the Father in honour? Were
847 1, 90| us think of the many holy prelates now at rest: what judgment
848 1, 45| immutability of God, yet prepared the way for the following
849 1, 64| because God is one through the prerogative of being incapable of birth;
850 1, 11| discussed at Sirmium in the presence of our most reverend brothers
851 1, 82| fact expressed by the word presents no difficulty. Who objects
852 1, 48| 48. This preserves the dignity of the Godhead:
853 1, 4 | safely abides in Christ, preserving the profession of its liberty.
854 1, 32| of the Council of Nicaea, presumed to attribute the three names
855 1, 79| prophetsPerhaps I am not presumptuous in gathering from this that
856 1, 4 | resolute faith does not pretend to be ignorant of these
857 1, 83| Son divided and shared a previously existing substance to make
858 1, 63| it is rare to find either priest or layman that belongs to
859 1, 85| is a type of the eternal priesthood. The former disapproved
860 1, 4 | bishops, the deposition of priests, the intimidation of the
861 1, 27| these words they decree the principles of their conscience and
862 1, 57| to a plurality to be the privilege of His essence. The words,
863 1, 76| They will pardon me if I proceed to speak somewhat freely
864 1, 30| aforesaid, or teaches or proclaims as the Gospel anything else
865 1, 20| as is necessary for the procreation of corporeal children that
866 1, 58| has. God's nature did not produce a nature unlike itself:
867 1, 4 | ignorant of these facts or profess that it can tolerate them,
868 1, 63| believed in your hearts and professed unto salvation. It was unnecessary
869 1, 1 | East, and bow the Evil One profiting by the discords of the times
870 1, 62| teaching many definitions and a profusion of words that the ordinary
871 1, 82| anything hurtful to the progress of unity. For it is absurd
872 1, 1 | Church in consequence of your prolonged silence. For when I had
873 1, 7 | the creeds which have been promulgated at different times and places
874 1, 28| heresy. The reason for its promulgation was the fact that they were
875 1, 90| what judgment will the Lord pronounce upon us if we now say anathema
876 1, 80| sion and o0moiou/sion your proof has left no difficulty untouched.
877 1, 15| Him is invested with the properties of the Father, viz., glory,
878 1, 16| likeness did not relinquish the property of His natural substance.
879 1, 28| by some Easterns, few in proportion to the whole number of bishops,
880 1, 91| is yours to discuss, to provide and to act, that the inviolable
881 1 | clergy of Tolosa in the Provincia Narbonensis, and to the
882 1, 57| interpret this passage as proving the bare unity of God, because
883 1, 6 | esteem are very cautious and prudent but do not understand the
884 1, 1 | unto us as heathen men and publicans~~~~~~
885 1, 77| not preach this doctrine publicly themselves, they beguiled
886 1, 2 | to express delight at the purity of our common faith. Praise
887 1, 90| What will be our case if we push the matter so far as to
888 1, 67| consider the statement to be quite as much wrong as right.
889 1, 3 | not without in their turn raising some scruples, and inflicting
890 1, 55| Paraclete has the office and rank peculiar to His Person,
891 1, 63| Churches is so great that it is rare to find either priest or
892 1, 32| letter, lest any one should rashly rise to judge me before
893 1, 5 | letters have succeeded in reaching me have expressed a wish
894 1, 32| patience anti forbearance of my readers and hearers until the completion
895 1, 63| ignorance would meet with a readier pardon than their detraction.
896 1, 71| declare it without giving our reasons. The one substance must
897 1, 81| Son? And who that has been reborn in Christ and confessed
898 1, 77| with how great a hope of recalling the true faith have you
899 1, 51| that He is sent, in that He receives, in that He submits in all
900 1, 36| individual men and angels in recognition of their merit, though the
901 1, 32| treat in its proper place. I recollect that at the beginning of
902 1, 79| comfort myself with the recollection that the spirits of the
903 1, 81| the real question is not reduced to something which all our
904 1, 89| misunderstanding has arisen in reference to certain statements at
905 1, 15| this is to be truly Son, to reflect the truth of the Father'
906 1, 51| two Gods: not that they refrain from making the Son equal
907 1, 23| wisdom we have again taken refuge in that wisdom of the serpent
908 1, 16| me spoken by the same lipsrefuses to understand this begat
909 1, 12| invisible God, as though refusing to confess that He is truly
910 1, 62| assertion has been successfully refuted. The infinite and boundless
911 1, 27| is a perfect birth which refutes the error that the Son could
912 1, 87| and the same, should be regarded as sacred. Forgive me, brethren,
913 1, 3 | fostered and supported in those regions: and when they heard of
914 1, 81| o0moou/sion we not only reject but hate. The question of
915 1, 81| is new than commit sin by rejecting it. So, then, we will pass
916 1, 82| must necessarily like its rejection by the Arians. The Arians
917 1, 2 | been could at one time only rejoice with my own conscience that
918 1, 1 | faith and efforts of our religions brethren, the bishops of
919 1, 16| unbegotten likeness did not relinquish the property of His natural
920 1, 44| any change of substance. Remaining free and outside the bond
921 1, 1 | silence towards you, carefully remembering the Lord's saying, that
922 1, 34| bring all things to their remembrance, through whom also the souls
923 1, 38| heaven to teach them and to remind them of all things, through
924 1, 2 | paucity were due to the remoteness and secrecy of my place
925 1, 90| been misunderstood may be removed.~
926 1, 51| was subjected to Him to render obedience, in that the Lord
927 1, 55| any genuine difficulty, rendered it necessary that this should
928 1, 73| that a likeness of nature renders things equal because this
929 1, 90| their successors. Let us renounce our episcopate, if we took
930 1, 66| Eastern bishops (though I repeat that they were few in number,
931 1, 89| beware lest they should be repeated at some future time. Out
932 1, 28| the very times when you repelled the introduction of this
933 1, 10| worth and reason of the replies made on the opposite side
934 1, 2 | but condemned as soon as reported and notified. I felt that
935 1, 7 | fault to me: for I am only a reporter, as you wished me to be,
936 1, 32| and the Holy Ghost; which represents that there is no personal
937 1, 20| substance. Therefore we repudiate all the impious assertions
938 1, 4 | worth, and content with repudiating crafty, vague, or hesitating
939 1, 27| which mark this likeness are repugnant to a confusion of Persons,
940 1, 63| abounded in the spirit. You required not the office of a hand
941 1, 88| to me. Yes, I fear those resemblances which are not due to a unity
942 1, 78| them; it is reverent to reserve for God His own prerogatives,
943 1, 4 | human will and power. Your resolute faith does not pretend to
944 1, 42| was met by the wholesome resolution that he who declared this
945 1, 30| the beginning, anti being resolved to hold it to the end in
946 1, 22| likeness one differs in no respect from the other, yet this
947 1, 77| of God and men, when he respectfully received your embassy, and
948 1, 11| be some misunderstanding respecting the faith, all points have
949 1, 90| many holy prelates now at rest: what judgment will the
950 1, 28| are frilly aware of the results, it will be easier for us
951 1, 29| true Light, true Way, the Resurrection the Shepherd, the Gate,
952 1, 75| which the Son's subjection retained for the Father belongs equally
953 1, 88| afterwards the flavour has revealed the difference to me. Yes,
954 1, 18| fact that the Son Himself reveals His essential likeness with
955 1, 78| subjection of the Son is filial reverence, the subjection of all other
956 1, 11| the presence of our most reverend brothers and fellow-bishops,
957 1, 78| you extended them; it is reverent to reserve for God His own
958 1, 12| Now, therefore, let us review the definitions of faith
959 1, 27| 27. We have reviewed, beloved brethren, all the
960 1, 80| aforesaid expressions, to revive the error of confounding
961 1, 39| heresy which Photinus was reviving was sapping our Catholic
962 1, 8 | authority, when heresy was so rife, in submitting to you by
963 1, 2 | Biterrae, where I denounced the ringleaders of this heresy with some
964 1, 32| lest any one should rashly rise to judge me before he was
965 1, 63| which others have long since robbed them. The necessity of a
966 1, 69| that He did not commit robbery by making Himself equal
967 1, 18| Son likewise, such a man robs himself of the knowledge
968 1, 2 | foundation of the faithful rock, for the undefiled and unswerving
969 1, 1 | from several cities of the Roman world frequently informed
970 1, 41| confess God the Father, and roundly declare that Christ the
971 1, 70| the divine mysteries to rouse the suspicions of our hearers
972 1, 86| Do not the very same men rule that we must keep silence
973 1, 78| the words was identical. Rustic bishops, I trow, and untutored
974 1, 8 | about words, even a hair's-breadth from pure Catholic belief,
975 1, 73| not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God
976 1, 69| was not used. He will be safe in asserting the one substance
977 1, 4 | vague, or hesitating action, safely abides in Christ, preserving
978 1, 75| conviction and divine authority sanction no difference between likeness
979 1, 85| fathers is weighty, is the sanctity of their successors trivial?
980 1, 39| Photinus was reviving was sapping our Catholic home by many
981 1, 34| We, the holy synod met in Sardica from different provinces
982 1, 51| the Lord; in that He then sat down at the right hand of
983 1, 62| that their hearers might be saturated with the truth thus differently
984 1, 84| more than eight souls were savedlest God hearing the cry
985 1, 11| only Son Jesus Christ our Saviour, begotten of Him before
986 1, 73| interfere with the doctrines and sayings of such holy men, and impiously
987 1, 63| But everywhere there are scandals, schisms and treacheries.
988 1, 63| everywhere there are scandals, schisms and treacheries. Hence some
989 1, 23| teaching of the Gospel which scorned any interval of times between
990 1, 3 | their turn raising some scruples, and inflicting some wounds
991 1, 51| when it was told Him to seat Himself; in that He is sent,
992 1, 2 | due to the remoteness and secrecy of my place of exile, I
993 1, 30| heretical and perverted sect, and if any man teaches
994 1, 20| frequently elude the truth and secure the ears of the unwary by
995 1, 11| whole faith is summed up and secured in this, that the Trinity
996 | seem
997 | seeming
998 1, 54| this the heretics often seize an opportunity of saying
999 1, 17| any detriment or change of self created from itself what
1000 1, 14| may not suppose that the selfsame person who gave received