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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Popular passages
Page 99 - ... pagans to Christianity, and to enlarge the boundaries of the church. 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.
Page 468 - I taque hoc consilium salubri ac rectissima ratione ineundum esse credidimus, ut nulli omnino facultatem abnegandam putaremus, qui vel observationi Christianorum vel ei religioni mentem suam dederat quam ipse sibi aptissimam esse sentiret, ut possit nobis summa divinitas, cuius religioni liberis mentibus obsequimur, in omnibus solitum favorem suum benevolentiamque praestare.
Page 89 - ... superest, ut de hac ipsa re singuli, quid sentiamus, proferamus neminem iudicantes aut a iure communicationis aliquem, si diversum senserit, amoventes. neque enim quisquam nostrum episcopum se episcoporum constituit aut tyrannico terrore ad obsequendi necessitatem collegas suos adigit, quando habeat omnis episcopus pro licentia libertatis et potestatis suae arbitrium proprium, tamquam iudicari ab alio non possit, quam nee ipse possit alterum iudicare.
Page 132 - Cyprian himself, by his own authority alone, suspends them till his return, and so shows that his authority was independent, theirs was not, and then promises ' they shall have a fair hearing before him, in the presence of the confessors and all the people.' " 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 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 114 - Supper.1 that is, the Thursday before Easter, were seen two moons in the heavens before day, the one in the east, and the other in the west, both full; and it was the fourteenth day of the moon. At Easter was the king at Bath, and at Pentecost at Salisbury; because he would not hold his court when he was beyond the sea. After this, and before August, went the 1 " eena Domini " — commonly called Maundy Thursday.
Page 117 - Praepositi cum clero convenientes, prcesente etiam stantium plebe, quibuf et ipsis pro fide et timore suo honor habendus est, disponere omnia consilii communis religione possimus. Being requested by the presbyters and [p. 576.] deacons to decide the case of two deacons and an acolythist, who, having lapsed, again returned to the church, he replies most explicitly, (Ep. xxviii. p. 39; al. Ep. xxxiv. ad presbyt. et Diaconos, c. 4): Desiderastis quoque, ut de Philumeno et Fortunate hypodiaconis et Favorino...
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 123 - Petro primum dominus, super quem aedificavit ecclesiam et unde unitatis originem instituit et ostendit, potestatem istam dedit ut id solveretur in terris quod ille solvisset. Et post resurrectionem quoque ad apostolos loquitur dicens: sicut misit me pater, et ego mitto uos.
Page 43 - Ic^em, contra ve.stram quoque (he is addressing the martyrs,) honorificam petitionem, (mark the circumspection he uses,) ante acUun poenitentiaiu, ante exomologesin gravissimi atque extremi delicti factam, ante manum ab episcopo et clero in poenitentiam impositam, offerre pro illis et eucharistiam dare, id est, sanctum Domini corpus prophanare audent.