Resultados8 letters/passages
ambrose_milan · c. 377 · score 0.02
To the most merciful Emperors, the Christian and most glorious princes Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius — from the Council assembled at Aquileia. Most merciful Emperors, your decrees have ensured that Arian faithlessness [the heresy denying the full divinity of Christ] can no longer hide or spread. The Council's ru …
ambrose_milan · c. 378 · score 0.02
To the most merciful, Christian, and glorious princes Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius — from the Council assembled at Aquileia. However abundantly we might give thanks, most merciful Emperors, we could never match the scale of your generosity to the faith. After so many years of persecution inflicted on Catholics …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.02
Shall I expose men either to betrayal of the faith or to punishment? Ambrose is not so important as to degrade the priesthood on his own account. The life of one man is not worth as much as the dignity of all priests -- on whose advice I have composed this document. They warned me that perhaps some pagan or Jew might b …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.02
The bishops, however, immediately recalled their deflected opinion. And certainly the greater number at Rimini approved the faith of the Nicene Council and condemned the Arian decrees. If Auxentius appeals to a synod to dispute about the faith -- although it is hardly necessary to fatigue so many bishops on account of …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.02
But surely if we consult the sequence of divine Scripture or the records of past ages, who can deny that in a matter of faith -- I repeat, in a matter of faith -- it is bishops who have been accustomed to judge Christian emperors, not emperors to judge bishops? You will come of age, God willing, and then you will judge …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.02
I neither recognize him as a bishop nor know where he comes from. Where do we stand, Emperor, when you yourself have already declared your judgment -- indeed, when you have enacted laws forbidding anyone to judge otherwise? When you have laid this down for others, you have laid it down for yourself as well. For the emp …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.01
Ambrose, Bishop, to the most merciful Emperor and most blessed Augustus Valentinian. Dalmatius, the tribune and notary, came to me on what he described as your Clemency's orders, demanding that I choose judges for a debate, since Auxentius the Arian bishop had already chosen his. He did not specify who had been nominat …
basil_caesarea · c. 368 · score 0.01
The gifts of the Lord are always great and always many -- great beyond measure, beyond counting in number. To anyone alive to his mercy, one of the greatest of these is the privilege I now enjoy: the chance for us, though separated by vast distance, to address one another by letter. God grants us two ways of becoming a …