 | Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 pages
...was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious...difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousions and the Homoiousions. As it frequently happens, that the sounds and characters which approach... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 512 pages
...was a Dutchman by birth, and by trade a scholastic divine. Dupin, Bibliot. Eccles. torn. 17. p. 45. furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians. As it frequently happens, that the sounds and characters which approach the nearest to... | |
 | Edward Burton - 1832 - 480 pages
...Father ; that he was O/IOIOIKTIOC, though not ojuoovir(oc : and hence the sarcastic remark of Gibbon, that " the profane of every age have derided the furious...which the difference of a single diphthong excited." It may be true in this, as in the Sabellian controversy, that the fathers of the Church might • have... | |
 | 1839 - 966 pages
...mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age derided the furious contests which the difference...diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoisians. As it frequently happens that sounds and characters which approach nearest each other,... | |
 | 1852 - 444 pages
...was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single dipthong excited between the Homo-ousians and Homoi-ousians." But that syllable was held to contain... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pages
...to it are carefully collected by Barouius and Tillemout. AD 318-325. FAITH OF THE WESTERN CHURCH. 01 furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians. As it frequently happens that the sounds and characters which approach the nearest to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1856 - 624 pages
...was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious...a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians nnti the Homoiousians. Aa it frequently happens, that the sounds and characters which approach the... | |
 | Edward Dicey - 1864 - 316 pages
...of the subject-matter of this unhappy war. VOL. I. * B " The profane of every age," says Gibbon, " have derided the furious contests which the difference...diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians." I am afraid that the profane of future generations will find equal grounds for satire... | |
 | Rev. John Reid - 1866 - 380 pages
...superstitious. When Gibbon •would show the absurdity of Christianity, it seemed to him sufficient to state, "that the profane of every age have derided the furious...diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Ilomoiousians."'* A single diphthong might be a small matter to Mr. Gibbon when it related to the nature... | |
 | 1866 - 648 pages
...Nicene distinction which marked the radical and infinite difference between the Orthodox and the Arums. "The profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diptbong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians." But the change to an iota here robs... | |
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The Greek word which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians... 
