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athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.02
For both are in danger, unless God shall speedily by your hands amend what has been done amiss, and the Church be avenged on her enemies. For our Canons and our forms were not given to the Churches at the present day, but were wisely and safely transmitted to us from our forefathers. Neither had our faith its beginning …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.02
The impious and mad Gregory cannot deny that he is an Arian, being proved to be so by the person who writes his letters. This is his secretary Ammon, who was cast out of the Church long ago by my predecessor the blessed Alexander for many misdeeds and for impiety. For all these reasons, therefore, vouchsafe to send me …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.02
This announcement confounded every one, for such a proceeding was entirely novel, and now heard of for the first time. The people however assembled still more constantly in the churches , for they very well knew that neither they themselves, nor any Bishop or Presbyter, nor in short any one had ever complained against …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.02
Such proceedings tend to the dissolution of all the ecclesiastical Canons, and compel the heathen to blaspheme, and to suspect that our appointments are not made according to a divine rule, but as a result of traffic and patronage. §3. Outrages which took place at the time of Gregory's arrival Thus was this notable app …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.02
Thus, those persons who were excommunicated by us for their impiety, now glory in the plunder of our churches; while the people of God, and the Clergy of the Catholic Church are compelled either to have communion with the impiety of the Arian heretics, or else to forbear entering into them. Moreover, by means of the Go …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.02
Far from it: we rather establish the law.' Now these things astonished even the officers who were sent by the Jews, so that wondering they said to the Pharisees, 'No man ever thus spoke John 7:46.' What was it then that astonished those officers, or what was it which so affected the men as to make them marvel? It was n …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
§5. Retirement of Athanasius, and tyranny of Gregory and Philagrius When all this was done, they did not stop even here; but consulted how they might act the same part in the other church , where I was mostly living during those days; and they were eager to extend their fury to this church also, in order that they migh …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Letter 11 For 339. Coss. Constantius Augustus II, Constans I; Præfect, Philagrius the Cappadocian, for the second time; Indict. xii; Easter-day xvii Kal. Mai, xx Pharmuthi; Æra Dioclet. 55. The blessed Paul, being girt about with every virtue , and called faithful of the Lord — for he was conscious of nothing in himsel …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
Encyclical letter (Epistola Encyclica) To his fellow-ministers in every place, beloved lords, Athanasius sends health in the Lord. §1. The whole Church affected by what has occurred Our sufferings have been dreadful beyond endurance, and it is impossible to describe them in suitable terms; but in order that the dreadfu …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
For while the ministers of the Church are under persecution, the people who condemn the impiety of the Arian heretics choose rather thus to be sick and to run the risk, than that a hand of the Arians should come upon their heads. §6. All the above illegalities were carried on in the interest of Arianism Gregory then is …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
In particular I ask, if I have said anything amiss, you would be good enough to overlook it, for from so great a fountain my unskilfulness has not been able to draw what it might have done. But as to our brethren, I ask you again to overlook my not having been able to see them. For truth itself is my witness that I wis …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Beloved as you were before among all, now such passionate affection for you is settled in the minds of all, that they call you the Elijah of our times; and no wonder. For if they who seem to please God are called Sons of God, much more proper is it to give that name to the associates of the Prophets, namely the Confess …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
So then, though the Arian madness, aided by external power, was so active that our brethren on account of their fury could not even see the open air with freedom, yet by God's favour, according to your prayers, I have been able, though with trouble and danger, to see the brother who is wont to bring me necessaries and …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Letter 1 For 329. Easter-day xi Pharmuthi; viii Id. April; Ær. Dioclet. 45; Coss. Constantinus Aug. VIII. Constantinus Cæs. IV; Præfect. Septimius Zenius; Indict. II. Of Fasting, and Trumpets, and Feasts. Come, my beloved, the season calls us to keep the feast. Again, 'the Sun of Righteousness Malachi 4:2, causing His …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
But lest I should be found to disappoint you, or by my silence to lead into impiety those who have made enquiry of you, and are given to disputation, I constrained myself to write briefly, what I have now sent to your piety. For although a perfect apprehension of the truth is at present far removed from us by reason of …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
If the brethren at Rome [last year], before these things had happened, and on account of their former misdeeds, wrote letters to call a Council, that these evils might be set right (fearing which, Eusebius and his fellows took care previously to throw the Church into confusion, and desired to destroy me, in order that …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
And if in anything they are defective (and I think they are defective in all respects), pardon it with a pure conscience, and only receive favourably the boldness of my good intentions in support of godliness. For an utter condemnation of the heresy of the Arians, it is sufficient for you to know the judgment given by …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Letter 50 First Letter to Lucifer. To our lord, and most beloved brother the Bishop and Confessor Lucifer. Athanasius greeting in the Lord. Being well in body by God's favour, we have now sent our most beloved deacon Eutyches, that your most pious holiness, as is much desired by us, may be pleased to inform us of the s …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
But you must not for this stand in awe of their iniquity, but on the contrary avenge: and show your indignation at this their unprecedented conduct against us. For if when one member suffers all the members suffer with it, and, according to the blessed Apostle, we ought to weep with them that weep , let every one, now …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
But you have come to Mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, which are written in heaven.' Who would not wish to enjoy the high companionship with these! Who not desire to be enrolled with t …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
On this account in writing to different people, some he exhorted as, for instance, in the Epistles to the Romans, and the Ephesians, and Philemon. Some he reproved, and was indignant with them, as in the case of the Corinthians and Galatians. To some he gave advice, as to the Colossians and Thessalonians. The Philippia …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Letter 51 Second Letter to Lucifer. To the most glorious lord and deservedly much-desired fellow bishop Lucifer, Athanasius greeting in the Lord. Although I believe that tidings have reached your holiness also of the persecution which the enemies of Christ have just now attempted to raise, seeking our blood, yet our ow …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
Upon this license of iniquity and disorder, their deeds were worse than in time of war, and more cruel than those of robbers. Some of them were plundering whatever fell in their way; others dividing among themselves the sums which some had laid up there ; the wine, of which there was a large quantity, they either drank …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
From Letter 29 (For 357.) From the twenty-ninth Letter, of which the beginning is, 'Sufficient for this present time is that which we have already written.' The Lord proved the disciples , when He was asleep on the pillow, at which time a miracle was wrought, which is especially calculated to put even the wicked to sha …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
And, on this account, the blessed Paul, urging us to note this season, wrote, saying, 'Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation 2 Corinthians 6:2.' At set seasons also He called the children of Israel to the Levitical feasts by Moses, saying, 'Three times in a year you shall keep a feast to …