The Arians of the Fourth Century

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1890 - Arianism - 474 pages
 

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Page 159 - For the Father judgeth no man, But hath committed all judgment unto the Son : That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, Honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Page 24 - But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 159 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do; for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that Himself doeth : and He will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
Page 431 - Incarnation. Since they are from the nature of the case above our intellectual reach, and were unknown till the preaching of Christianity, they required on their first promulgation new words, or words used in new senses, for their due enunciation ; and, since these were not definitely supplied by Scripture or by tradition, nor for centuries by ecclesiastical authority, variety in the use, and confusion in the apprehension of them, were unavoidable in the interval. This conclusion is necessary, admitting...
Page 443 - And again, in speaking of the laity, I speak inclusively of their parish-priests (so to call them), at least in many places; but on the whole, taking a wide view of the history, we are obliged to say that the governing body of the Church came short, and the governed were pre-eminent in faith, zeal, courage, and constancy.
Page 391 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 19 - Tiberias, and finding him again as soon as themselves by ship were arrived on the contrary side, whither they knew that by ship he came not, and by land the journey was longer than according to the time he could have to travel ; as they wondered, so they asked also, " Rabbi, when earnest thou hither...
Page 452 - XXIV. — ASSAULT UPON THE MONKS, AND BANISHMENT OF THEIR SUPERIORS, WHO EXHIBIT MIRACULOUS POWER. THE emperor Valens having issued an edict commanding that the orthodox should be expelled both from Alexandria and the rest of Egypt, depopulation and ruin to an immense extent immediately followed : some were dragged before the tribunals, others cast into prison, and many tortured in various ways, all sorts of punishments being inflicted upon persons who aimed only at peace and quiet.
Page 81 - This vague and uncertain family of religious truths, originally from God, but sojourning, without the sanction of miracle or a definite home, as pilgrims up and down the world, and discernible and separable from the corrupt legends with which they are mixed by the spiritual mind alone, may be called the Dispensation of Paganism, after the example of the learned Father already quoted.
Page i - FRET not thyself because of the ungodly; neither be thou envious against the evil doers : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.

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