Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume VI St. Augustine"The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD marked the beginning of a new era in Christianity. For the first time, doctrines were organized into a single creed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers did most of their writing during and after this important event in Church history. Unlike the previous era of Christian writing, the Nicene and Post-Nicene era is dominated by a few very important and prolific writers. In Volume VI of the 14-volume collected writings of the Nicenes and Post-Nicenes (first published between 1886 and 1889), readers will find Saint Augustines exegesis on the Gospels and the Sermon on the Mount, which strove to interpret and draw meaning out of the text without incorporating the author's personal agenda or bias. Also included in this volume are a selection of Augustines sermons." |
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Now, some have wished to derive the interpretation of this expression from the Greek, supposing that a ragged person is called " Raca," because a rag is called in Greek paros; yet, when one asks them what a ragged person is called in ...
Now, some have wished to derive the interpretation of this expression from the Greek, supposing that a ragged person is called " Raca," because a rag is called in Greek paros; yet, when one asks them what a ragged person is called in ...
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Look at the Apostle Paul ; does it not seem to you that he avenges the martyr Stephen in his own person, when he says : " So fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection " ?
Look at the Apostle Paul ; does it not seem to you that he avenges the martyr Stephen in his own person, when he says : " So fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection " ?
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For he who acts the part of Agamemnon in tragedy, for example, or of any other person belonging to the history or legend which is acted, is not really the person himself, but personates him, and is called a hypocrite.
For he who acts the part of Agamemnon in tragedy, for example, or of any other person belonging to the history or legend which is acted, is not really the person himself, but personates him, and is called a hypocrite.
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... and the scantiness of his resources, and the worthlessness of his plebeian person : how much more, therefore, ought we to tremble to call God Father, if there is so great a stain and so much baseness in our character, that God might ...
... and the scantiness of his resources, and the worthlessness of his plebeian person : how much more, therefore, ought we to tremble to call God Father, if there is so great a stain and so much baseness in our character, that God might ...
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But no one will be allowed to be ignorant of the kingdom of God, when His Only- begotten shall come from heaven, not only in a way to be apprehended by the understanding, but also visibly in the person of the Divine Man, ...
But no one will be allowed to be ignorant of the kingdom of God, when His Only- begotten shall come from heaven, not only in a way to be apprehended by the understanding, but also visibly in the person of the Divine Man, ...
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