Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-five Years from the Christian Era: Being a Translation of "The Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians Before the Time of Constantine the Great,", Volume 2S. Converse, 1851 - 512 pages |
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Page 99 - We ought to praise these holy men for their magnanimity : but it may be questioned whether it would not have been better to temper that magnanimity with prudence, and give way to the iniquity of the times, for the sake of avoiding a greater evil. The emperor and the governors, in these circumstances, supposing themselves to be contemned by the Christians, especially by the bishops, determined to coerce them by sterner laws. That this is no fiction appears from the history of Dionysius Alexandrinus...
Page 187 - And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
Page 90 - Si qui ergo a quacumque haeresi venient ad vos, nihil innovetur nisi quod traditum est, ut manus illis imponatur in paenitentiam, cum ipsi haeretici proprie alterutrum ad se venientes non baptizent, sed communicent tantum...
Page 191 - Hoc ergo modo etiam illa anima quae, quasi ferrum in igne, sic semper in Verbo, semper in Sapientia, semper in Deo posita est, omne quod agit, quod sentit, quod intelligit, Deus est ; et ideo nec convertibilis aut mutabilis dici potest, quae inconvertibilitatem ex Verbi Dei unitate indesinenter ígnita possedit.
Page 97 - ... rescripsisse Valerianum ad senatum, „ut episcopi et presbyteri et diacones in continenti animad,,vertantur, senatores vero et egregii viri et equites Romani „dignitate amissa etiam bonis spolientur et si ademptis „facultatibus christiani perseveraverint, capite quoque multen„tur, matronae ademptis bonis in exilium relegentur, Caesa„riani autem quicumque vel prius confessi fuerant vel nunc „confessi fuerint confiscentur et vincti in Caesarianas posses„siones descripti mittantur".
Page 132 - Utar ea admonitione qua me uti Dominus jubet, ut interim prohibeantur offerre, acturi et apud nos, et apud confessores ipsos, et apud plebem universam, causam suam.
Page 123 - Super unum aedificat ecclesiam, et quamvis apostolis omnibus post resurrectionem suam parem potestatem tribuat et dicat: ,,sicut misit me pater et ego mitto vos. Accipite spiritum sanctum: si cuius remiseritis peccata, remittentur illi: si cuius tenueritis, tenebuntur", tamen ut unitatem manifestaret, unitatis eiusdem originem ab uno incipientem sua auctoritate disposuit. Hoc erant utique et ceteri apostoli, quod fuit Petrus, pari consortio praediti et honoris et potestatis, sed exordium...
Page 298 - God to reside in the sun fmd moon, it is not strange that they should pay some honor to those luminaries; and it is abundantly testified, that they turned their eyes to them, when they prayed, Augustine says, (de Haeres. c. 46. p. 13.) : Orationes faciunt ad solem per diem, quaqua versum circuit: ad lunan per noctem, si apparet: si autem non apparet, ad Aquiloniam partem, qua sol cum occiderit ad Orientem revertitur, stunt orantes.
Page 122 - Nam cum statutum sit ab omnibus nobis et aequum sit pariter ac iustum, ut uniuscuiusque causa illic audiatur, ubi est crimen admissum, et singulis pastoribus portio gregis sit adscripta, quam regat unusquisque et gubernet rationem sui actus Domino redditurus, oportet utique eos, quibus praesumus, non circumcursare...
Page 94 - Pneceperunt etiam, ne in aliquibus locis conciliabula fiant, nee coemeteria ingrediantur. Si quis itaque hoc tam salubre praeceptum non observaverit, capite plectetur. Capital punishment, then, was enacted against those who persisted either in holding religious assemblies, or in attending them. The emperors prohibited first in general, all religious assemblies, which they designate as Canciliabula; and then, in particular, the conventions which were held in Cemeteries. By this term, it is well known,...