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PREFACE.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer
- 2: In place of duplicating bibliographies
- 3: Of Meadville Theological School
- 4: Enchiridion fontium historiae ecclesiasticae antiquae
- 5: The edition by Professor McGiffert is the best in English
- 6: These are the Neronian persecution ? 1
- 7: That from Clement of Rome see ? 1
- 8: But the church in Ephesus also
- 9: Daughter of a sister of Flavius Clemens
- 10: A translation of the entire epistle may be found in ANF
- 11: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Accordingly
- 12: In the eucharist of the bread and cup
- 13: The mere renunciation of Christianity
- 14: Martyrdom and the Desire for Martyrdom Ignatius of Antioch
- 15: It was a part of the fundamental principles of Montanism
- 16: And these things are borne witness to in writing by Papias
- 17: And yet in their very dishonor are glorified
- 18: It probably persisted in Asia Minor after Ignatius
- 19: They abstain from the eucharist and from prayer
- 20: Now the word Amen in the Hebrew language signifies
- 21: But just as Jesus Christ our Saviour
- 22: They appointed their first fruits
- 23: Which Thou madest known unto us through Jesus
- 24: If he doeth not what he teacheth
- 25: The beginning appears in Hermas
- 26: Hermas wrote in the second century
- 27: Having become incorruptible and incapable of suffering
- 28: Are alms as repentance from sin
- 29: As an authoritative expression of belief
- 30: He lived at the court of Abgar IX 179 214
- 31: The work of Celsus against Christianity
- 32: And with Pythagoras himself in Italy
- 33: After being completely corrupted
- 34: They despise honors and purple robes
- 35: There is mingled among them a certain religion of lust
- 36: And the Martyrdom of Polycarp ANF
- 37: When he was brought to Urbicus
- 38: Speratus said I am a Christian
- 39: Speratus said We give thanks to God
- 40: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS If they see a stranger
- 41: But since they did not know the whole of the Logos
- 42: Who is from the unbegotten and ineffable God
- 43: Like the earlier Gnostics ? 21
- 44: Clement of Alexandria all translated in ANF
- 45: But descended in Samaria as the Father
- 46: The successor of Simon Magus was Menander
- 47: The thirteenth book of his Tractates
- 48: ' But the hypothesis of Basilides says that the soul
- 49: From the Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis
- 50: The Excerpta Theodoti contained in ANF
- 51: Death is the work of the imperfect Demiurge
- 52: The Docetism of Valentinus comes out in the following
- 53: They affirm was spoken concerning the Demiurge
- 54: Whom they call Charis and Sige
- 55: Moses gives a law opposed to God
- 56: Pure and untainted with anything base
- 57: The passover and the unleavened bread
- 58: For there is one unbegotten One
- 59: The system of Cerdo and Marcion
- 60: As does the mariner Marcion himself
- 61: Montanism was wild and fanatical
- 62: Two women Maximilla and Priscilla
- 63: In this synod Montanus and Maximilla
- 64: But the Gnostic teachers differed widely
- 65: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Evaristus succeeded Clement
- 66: As I must likewise here enter as a demurrer
- 67: Additional source material See Preuschen
- 68: Forbidding schisms and heresies
- 69: Symbolizing His sacrificial and sacerdotal order
- 70: Although Marcion rejects his Apocalypse
- 71: Quoting the position of Praxeas
- 72: But to Manichaeans and Marcionites
- 73: The reference to the charisma of truth
- 74: A The Logos Doctrine As stated by the apologists
- 75: Theophilus was the sixth bishop of Antioch
- 76: One of the ablest of the apologists
- 77: Its leading representative was Irenaeus
- 78: Dealt justly even with apostasy itself
- 79: When they receive the eucharist
- 80: Profited little by this ? 34 until
- 81: By which unlawful societies are restrained
- 82: C Persecutions under Severus
- 83: When they came within sight of Hilarianus
- 84: Then to the soldier Prudens he said Farewell
- 85: Mithraism was especially prevalent in the army
- 86: No elaborated statement of Mithraic doctrine
- 87: Was a granddaughter of Julius Bassianus
- 88: For there suddenly appeared before her one of the exorcists
- 89: That held under Agrippinus
- 90: Concerning Basilides and Martial
- 91: At the Council of Arles see ? 62
- 92: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Thereupon 57 Victor
- 93: Neither could Polycarp persuade Anicetus to observe it
- 94: Emulation of the episcopal office is the mother of schism
- 95: This work was written after Tertullian became a Montanist
- 96: So almsgiving quencheth sin Eccles
- 97: Hence the term Dynamistic Monarchians
- 98: Who is commonly spoken of as Theodotus
- 99: Callistus supported the heresy of these Noetians
- 100: And the presbyters replied to him
- 101: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS They the heretics
- 102: This is the expedient of Sabellius
- 103: To obtain readmission or forgiveness
- 104: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS The Lord
- 105: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Whatever authority
- 106: See preceding extract from De Pudicitia
- 107: Origen became head of the Catechetical School in 203
- 108: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Faith then is
- 109: And figures among the heresies known as Origenism
- 110: Universal redemption or salvation
- 111: He would have given His soul as a ransom for all
- 112: The method of exegesis known as allegorism
- 113: And do thou portray them in a threefold manner
- 114: The greatest of the Neo Platonists
- 115: Of his blessedness or of his incorruptibility
- 116: The Decian persecution and the sufferings of Origen
- 117: De Lapsis was written in the spring of 251
- 118: Testify as being present that Diogenes sacrificed with us
- 119: Should have their property confiscated
- 120: And therefore the baptism of martyrdom is given us
- 121: It has appeared whence came the faction of Felicissimus
- 122: Is again brought about by the five presbyters
- 123: Found no place in its system for such an article as chiliasm
- 124: Reviving Dynamistic Monarchianism
- 125: 46 912 Gregory Thaumaturgus
- 126: When he had written his letter to Ammonius
- 127: The deposition of Paul of Samosata
- 128: Which Malchion is said to have revised and published
- 129: Methodius was bishop of Olympus
- 130: The conception of the sacrifice which appears in the Didache
- 131: In our case the unction runs carnally
- 132: Which is a distinct advance upon Tertullian
- 133: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS If Jesus Christ
- 134: In place of Basilides and Martial
- 135: The little treatise De Aleatoribus MSL
- 136: As is shown by the indignant tone of Firmilian
- 137: You have alone excommunicated yourself from all
- 138: Which schism shared with the Novatian schism the opinion
- 139: They also who come from Novatian ought
- 140: And part he spent on bread and part he gave to the needy
- 141: And Alexander of Lycopolis
- 142: 86 Afterward he converted Peroz
- 143: And then the aeon of Gentleness
- 144: Constantius Chlorus for the West
- 145: The opinion of Diocletian prevailed
- 146: Galerius died in the next month
- 147: Had happily met together at Milan
- 148: That in Alexandria is known as the Meletian schism
- 149: Because thy unwarrantable ordination displeased many
- 150: They discovered to Meletius certain presbyters
- 151: Including the principal ecclesiastical historians
- 152: In connection with Hefele may be used Percival
- 153: And the position of the curiales
- 154: If a shipman shall have been originally a lighterman
- 155: Additional source material Eusebius
- 156: In the Catholic Church over which Caecilianus presides
- 157: Especially in the period before his victory over Licinius
- 158: The consecrator of Caecilianus
- 159: The Charges against Caecilianus
- 160: Canones Apostolorum et Conciliorum
- 161: It shall not render their ordination invalid
- 162: Acting with more clemency toward Meletius
- 163: B the ordination of the Novatians was regarded as valid
- 164: Without the setting aside of the formula of Nicaea
- 165: Probably under the influence of Hosius
- 166: Lacking only His unbegottenness
- 167: The Son coexists unbegotten with God
- 168: Those who became apostates were Arius
- 169: That is of the ousia of the Father
- 170: The term homoousios troubled some of them
- 171: The Eusebians wrote also to Julius
- 172: Hence it is known as the creed of Lucian
- 173: For the discussion of this act of Liberius
- 174: As to homoousios or what is called homoiousios
- 175: I understand by homoousios God of God
- 176: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Nothing can be like gold but gold
- 177: And summoned the Circumcellions
- 178: They are said to have written to Count Taurinus
- 179: Of these one was named Dalmatius
- 180: Maximus the philosopher arrived in Nicomedia
- 181: It was announced that Constantius was dead
- 182: During the reign of Constantius
- 183: As many as there are throughout Galatia
- 184: The works of Apollinaris would be equally praised and taught
- 185: On the death of Valens at Adrianople
- 186: Ammianus was himself a heathen
- 187: At Antioch Valens spent considerable time
- 188: But the divine Constantius is said to have done the same
- 189: Reply of Ambrose to the Memorial of Symmachus
- 190: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS We have increased through loss
- 191: And the foreign rites of alien superstition
- 192: And might be called the anti Arian parties
- 193: One ousia and three hypostases
- 194: Whether they use the expression in the sense of Sabellius
- 195: And the Pontic bishops only Pontic matters
- 196: Begotten of the Father before all worlds
- 197: But monasticism was not confined to the private ascetic
- 198: In Hefele and the other collections
- 199: Who have been excommunicated in the several provinces
- 200: If any bishop be deposed by a synod
- 201: And if he shall decide that the case should be retried
- 202: Bishop Gaudentius said If it please you
- 203: Valentinian and Theodosius
- 204: To the most religious Emperor Theodosius
- 205: The imperial edicts for these acts were obtained in 399
- 206: Celestinus 422 432 succeeded him
- 207: If ever he has been convicted of being a Manichaean
- 208: An account of the tenets of the Priscillianists
- 209: Is not truly honored by these men
- 210: Or men carried away with partisan zeal
- 211: According to an agreement between the litigants
- 212: Or the maintenance of baths or ports
- 213: When the lawful penance has been accomplished
- 214: As slaves were a valuable possession
- 215: Put a stop to gladiatorial combats
- 216: But you have a natural vehemence
- 217: Is conceded after a year the right to remarry
- 218: That after divorce there could be no remarriage
- 219: Gregory of Nazianzus was the friend and schoolmate of Basil
- 220: With this heathenism the Church had to struggle
- 221: And especially because the martyrs
- 222: The Council of Laodicaea is of uncertain date
- 223: In which lived a certain monk Pachomius
- 224: And enter with only their cuculla cf
- 225: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS For him who falls into sin
- 226: To escape the persecution of the Arian heretics
- 227: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Then Pontitianus
- 228: The clergy who do not marry become monks
- 229: A Clerical Marriage in the East a Council of Ancyra
- 230: Or presbyter after his ordination to contract matrimony
- 231: Clerical celibacy the force of decretals
- 232: Even subdeacons are not allowed carnal marriage
- 233: The daughter of Theodosius the Great
- 234: Emperors of the East Arcadius born 377
- 235: The Emperors Theodosius and Valentinian
- 236: Which Ulfilas describes as his testament
- 237: They won a complete victory over Athanaric beyond the Danube
- 238: For wherever he destroyed heathen temples
- 239: Victorinus himself became a Christian
- 240: And suddenly and unexpectedly said to Simplicianus
- 241: Augustine regarded it as miraculous
- 242: I now with a tranquil countenance made it known to Alypius
- 243: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS In Adam I fell
- 244: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS It is to be confessed
- 245: I speak of those who are predestinated to the kingdom of God
- 246: The framework to which the significant things are attached
- 247: Two hundred and seventy nine Donatist
- 248: Contra litteras Petiliani Donatistae
- 249: And Cyprian further sets forth
- 250: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS The infant
- 251: But in those who were compelled the disobedience is avenged
- 252: The epistle begins Manichaeus
- 253: The Pelagian Controversy The Pelagian controversy
- 254: Augustine's testimony as to the character of Pelagius
- 255: And probably under the spiritual direction of Pelagius
- 256: Fragments of the confessions of other Pelagians
- 257: Approving their councils and condemning Pelagianism
- 258: But have it not for that which edifieth
- 259: Known as the Semi Pelagian controversy 427 529
- 260: De Institutis Coenobiorum and the Collationes
- 261: Vincent attacked Augustine in his Commonitorium
- 262: Should in the future be preached earnestly
- 263: The end of the Semi Pelagian controversy
- 264: Whoever asserts that some by mercy
- 265: Leo was the representative of the Roman people
- 266: Condemnation of the twenty eighth canon of Chalcedon
- 267: Let it be enough for the aforesaid Anatolius
- 268: And the respect which is due the Apostolic See
- 269: Brought about the Origenistic controversies
- 270: Preface to the Vulgate Translation of the New Testament
- 271: Condemnation of Origen by Anastasius
- 272: In this preface Rufinus refers
- 273: Severianus also co operated in promoting this
- 274: Assembled at Chalcedon in Bithynia
- 275: Apollinaris von Laodicea und seine Schule
- 276: In this epistle Gregory attacks Apollinaris
- 277: And was written by Theodore of Mopsuestia
- 278: Participating in the Sonship and dignity
- 279: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS She is Theotokos
- 280: The Christology of the Cappadocians
- 281: On June 26 or 27 the Antiochians arrived
- 282: And glorified together with Him
- 283: The text may also be found in Hefele
- 284: After subscribing to the deposition of Nestorius
- 285: At Alexandria Dioscurus in 444
- 286: Doubtless the Son is consubstantial with us
- 287: The best critical text is given in Hahn
- 288: Assembled at Nicaea in the reign of Constantine
- 289: Consubstantial with His Father as touching His godhead
- 290: The clerics from the clerical rank
- 291: Additional source material Evagrius
- 292: Constantine and Theodosius the younger v
- 293: These are characteristic Monophysite positions
- 294: And specially the aforementioned Nestorius and Eutyches
- 295: This is most clearly set forth by Gelasius
- 296: De Recipiendis et non Recipiendis Libris
- 297: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS of Cyril
- 298: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS of Africanus
- 299: At least as regards Monophysitism
- 300: Heraclius 610 641 ascended the throne
- 301: The Origenistic controversy arose in Palestine
- 302: Which Hefele has identified with the Judicatum
- 303: The Emperor thereupon suppressed the Constitutum
- 304: This he did in his Constitutum ad Imperatorem
- 305: Then follow these five anathematisms
- 306: The following sentence was passed Paschasius and Lucentius
- 307: But containing thirteen anathematisms
- 308: Aphthartodocetism of Justinian
- 309: The holy Apostle teaches I Cor
- 310: But a curial or an official who
- 311: The following laws of Justinian
- 312: The Monophysite patriarch of Antioch
- 313: C De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia
- 314: E De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia
- 315: Additional source material Bede
- 316: De excidio Britanniae liber querulus MSL
- 317: By the preaching of the word to them by Ninian
- 318: Epistula ad Chlodosvindam reginam Longobardorum MSL
- 319: But Alarich reigned twenty two years
- 320: Chlodowech spent the winter in Bourdeaux
- 321: Here follows the faith of Nicaea
- 322: In Spain the Visigoths were Arians until 589
- 323: Canons regarding Episcopal elections
- 324: The Chronicon of Fredegarius is important
- 325: Two other epistles on the subject in MSL
- 326: And founded a second monastery
- 327: And Brunichildis said They are the king's sons
- 328: In our vicariate and the pallium
- 329: On the title Ecumenical Patriarch
- 330: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Certainly Peter
- 331: Phocas 602 610 was a low born
- 332: Only expressing approval of the four synods
- 333: Scriptores rerum Langobardorum et Italicarum saec
- 334: When King Agilulf received word of this
- 335: We grant you the use of the pallium
- 336: But the Celts placed the vernal equinox on March 25
- 337: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS For John
- 338: And if that Columba of yours and
- 339: That no bishop invade the diocese of another
- 340: In Plummer's edition of Bede this chapter is numbered 15
- 341: Connected with this theology was the penitential discipline
- 342: And most pious king in the city of Agde
- 343: Orleans itself was in the dominion of Childebert
- 344: Caesarius presided at the Council of Orange A
- 345: We ought to immolate to God the daily sacrifice of our tears
- 346: Himself a Greek and probably a native of Tarsus
- 347: Let his kindred pay a half leod
- 348: Whoever vomits from satiety let him do penance 3 days
- 349: Benedict of Nursia circa 480 to circa 544
- 350: And in every way worse than the sarabites
- 351: Whether there be one refection or breakfast and supper
- 352: At what hours the brethren ought to take their refection
- 353: Concerning the oratory of the monastery
- 354: Shall confer it on the monastery
- 355: Know then that by these letters dimissory
- 356: I HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS do now
- 357: B From Theodore of Canterbury
- 358: His Institutiones and Collationes were of influence
- 359: Vaison is a small see in the province of Arles
- 360: Was subject to his brother Sigebert
- 361: Before his death in 632 he had conquered all Arabia
- 362: The following surah or chapter of the Koran
- 363: God hath stamped on them their misbelief
- 364: Charles 285 had at that time a dispute with Eudo
- 365: Is clearly tending toward Monotheletism
- 366: Being one of the holy homoousian Triad
- 367: And in addition to these the most impious Ecthesis
- 368: And this our holy and ecumenical synod
- 369: Consubstantial with His Father as to His godhead
- 370: And in Hefele in a translation
- 371: Immediately after the council of 681
- 372: Renewal of the Condemnations of the Sixth Council
- 373: Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
- 374: And if a layman he shall be excommunicated
- 375: B Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum
- 376: Presbyter of the holy Roman Church
- 377: Were the Lombards permanently under Catholic rulers
- 378: Which Hefele accepts as genuine
- 379: 725 Narnia 314 was taken by the Lombards
- 380: Thereupon the patrician Eutychius
- 381: The dukes of Spoleto and Beneventum
- 382: Blame those who show reverence to graven images
- 383: And sent this to Augarus to satisfy in this way his desire
- 384: Great and ecumenical synod which
- 385: Is properly and truly the Theotokos
- 386: Which is called the tradition of the Catholic Church
- 387: Rescript of Gratian and Valentinian on
- 388: On Fall of Man and original sin
- 389: Forms approximating to the Apostles'
- 390: Anathematisms against Nestorius
- 391: Eutyches and Eutychian controversy
- 392: On apostolic tradition and churches
- 393: His ecclesiastical and religious policy
- 394: Moralism and moralistic Christianity
- 395: Ousia distinguished from hypostasis
- 396: A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer
- 397: Remission of sin after baptism
- 398: Engages in Nestorian controversy
- 399: 3 Pontia was an island near Pandataria
- 400: This differs somewhat from the ordinary gematria
- 401: And is constantly used in Gnosticism
- 402: 54 Reference to the creation of the sun
- 403: 73 In the next chapter of Eusebius VII
- 404: In forcing the Donatists to return to the Church
- 405: Not for presbyter but for bishop
- 406: On whose advice the Senate granted a subsidy to Alarich
- 407: 192 This is the position of Eutyches
- 408: The Doctrine of the Incarnation
- 409: The bishop was a sacerdos or priest
- 410: Did not come before the Council of Chalcedon
- 411: For the Anathematism of the Council
- 412: 295 From here the text may be found also in Hahn