The Early Years of Christianity: Heresy and Christian doctrineHodder and Stoughton, 1879 |
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Page 429 - Si haec ita sunt, constat proinde omnem doctrinam quae cum illis Ecclesiis apostolicis, matricibus et originalibus fidei, conspiret, veritati deputandam, sine dubio tenentem quod Ecclesiae ab apostolis, apostoli a Christo, Christus a Deo accepit ; reliquam vero omnem doctrinam de mendacio praejudicandam, quae sapiat contra veritatem Ecclesiarum, et apostolorum, et Christi, et Dei.
Page 250 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. When he prepared the heavens, I was there, when he set a compass upon the face of the deep.
Page 140 - A work it was of the power of the Most High, but hid from the eyes of men in the nature of it; and, therefore, that holy thing which had no subsistence of its own, which should be born of her, should ' be called the Son of God,' becoming one person with him.
Page 455 - Professus itaque se concupiscentia concupisse edere pascha ut suum (indignum enim ut quid alienum concupisceret deus), acceptum panem et distributum discipulis corpus suum ilium fecit, hoc est corpus meum dicendo, id est ' figura corporis mei '. Figura autem non fuisset nisi veritatis esset corpus.
Page 203 - Regula fidei una omnino est, sola, immobilis, irreformabilis, credendi, scilicet, in unicum Deum omnipotentem, mundi conditorem, et Filium ejus Jesum Christum, natum ex Virgine Maria, crucifixum sub Pontio Pilato, tertia die resuscitatum a mortuis, receptum in coelis, sedentem nunc ad dextram Patris, venturum judicare vivos et mortuos, per carnis etiam resurrectionem.
Page 8 - I thank thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto...
Page 412 - I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again.
Page 112 - Was not the new development of the revelations given foreseen and declared by Jesus Christ? The final and glorious economy of the Paraclete may indeed have commenced at Pentecost, but it only reached its culminating point with the appearance of Montanus and the prophetesses of Phrygia ; none can tell * Tertullian, " De virg. veland.,
Page 395 - Et calicem similiter, qui est ex ea creatura quae est secundum nos, suum sanguinem confessus est, et novi testamenti novam docuit oblationem; quam Ecclesia ab apostolis accipiens, in universo mundo offert Deo, ei qui alimenta nobis praestat, primitias suorum munerum in novo testamento: Adv.
Page 203 - The rule of faith, indeed, is altogether one, alone immoveable and irreformable; the rule, to wit, of believing in one only God omnipotent, the Creator of the universe, and His Son Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, crucified under Pontius Pilate, raised...