The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to A. D. 325, Volume VI Fathers of the Third Century - Gregory Thaumaturgus; Dinysius the GreReverend Alexander Roberts "One of the first great events in Christian history was the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, convened to organize Christian sects and beliefs into a unified doctrine. The great Christian clergymen who wrote before this famous event are referred to as the Ante-Nicenes and the Apostolic Fathers, and their writings are collected here in a ten-volume set. The Ante-Nicenes lived so close to the time of Christ that their interpretations of the New Testament are considered more authentic than modern voices. But they are also real and flawed men, who are more like their fellow Christians than they are like the Apostles, making their words echo in the ears of spiritual seekers. In Volume VI of the 10-volume collected works of the Ante-Nicenes first published between 1885 and 1896, readers will find the writings of: Gregory Thaumaturgus Dionysius, pope of Alexandria Julius Africanus, a Christian historian who wrote a history of the world from Creation to 221 bishops Antolius of Constantinople, Archelaus of Carchar, and Peter of Alexandria Alexander of Cappadocia, bishop of Jerusalem until he was taken prisoner by the Romans Theognostus, Pierius, and Thenas of Alexandria Phileas, a philosopher from Thmuis Pamphilus, patron of the library at Caesarea Malchion, a rhetorician from Antioch Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, who drew up the Acts during the Council of Nicaea the martyr Methodius Arnobius, an early Christian apologist" |
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... soul to attain to, in servitude all the while to what is transient, and undesirous of considering aught heavenly with the noble eye of the soul. And the life of men weareth away, as day by day, and in the periods of hours and years, and ...
... soul to attain to, in servitude all the while to what is transient, and undesirous of considering aught heavenly with the noble eye of the soul. And the life of men weareth away, as day by day, and in the periods of hours and years, and ...
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... souls of men, whether they shall fly upwards ; and regarding the others which the unreasoning creatures possess ... soul and body, finding inconsolable vexation in the good fortune of others." And a wise man would choose to have one ...
... souls of men, whether they shall fly upwards ; and regarding the others which the unreasoning creatures possess ... soul and body, finding inconsolable vexation in the good fortune of others." And a wise man would choose to have one ...
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... soul is kept upright.' The souls of the wise, indeed, are sad and downcast, but those of fools are elated, and given loose to merriment. And yet it is far more desirable to receive blame from one wise man, than to become a hearer of a ...
... soul is kept upright.' The souls of the wise, indeed, are sad and downcast, but those of fools are elated, and given loose to merriment. And yet it is far more desirable to receive blame from one wise man, than to become a hearer of a ...
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... soul yet ungifted with the full power of reason ; and which secured at the same time that when the soul now became endowed with that power, though not gifted with the divine and pure reason,4 it might not be devoid at least of that fear ...
... soul yet ungifted with the full power of reason ; and which secured at the same time that when the soul now became endowed with that power, though not gifted with the divine and pure reason,4 it might not be devoid at least of that fear ...
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... soul, love was kindled and burst into flame within us, — a love at once to the Holy Word, the most lovely object of all, who attracts aE irresistibly toward Himself by His unutterable beauty, and to this man, His friend and advocate ...
... soul, love was kindled and burst into flame within us, — a love at once to the Holy Word, the most lovely object of all, who attracts aE irresistibly toward Himself by His unutterable beauty, and to this man, His friend and advocate ...
Contents
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JULIUS AFRICANUS Extant Writings | 125 |
ARCHELAUS The Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes | 179 |
ALEXANDER OF LYCOPOLIS Of the Manichjsans | 241 |
PETER OF ALEXANDRIA The Genuine Acts of Peter | 261 |
ALEXANDER OF ALEXANDRIA Epistles on the Arian Heresy and | 291 |
METHODIUS The Banquet of the Ten Virgins | 309 |
ARNOBIUS The Seven Books of Arnobius against the Heathen | 413 |
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Page 398 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Page 385 - And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Page 46 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in. all.
Page 322 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 83 - JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia : Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come : and from the seven spirits which are before his throne...
Page 214 - For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
Page 330 - I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Page 188 - But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Page 64 - He hath filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich He hath sent empty away.