Resultados25 letters/passages
augustine_hippo · c. 419 · score 0.02
… e Emperors Honorius and Theodosius, Augusti, to Bishop Aurelius — greetings. An imperial decree against the Pelagians. 1. Pelagius and Caelestius [the two chief proponents of the heresy denying original sin and the necessity of divine grace], authors of a wicked and execrable doctrine, have been condemned by the judgme …
leo_great · c. 447 · score 0.02
For this reason, we pray your clemency to oppose such disturbances with the Truth, and to order the Faith of the Catholic religion to be preserved without stain. We ask that, in accordance with the standard and decision of the Apostolic See — which we likewise revere as preeminent — Flavian may remain completely unharm …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
And yet even this is not enough; but something besides is said to be exacted according to a custom of many years. This practice we altogether detest, and desire it to be utterly extirpated from the patrimony. But, whether in this or in other minute imposts, let your Experience consider what is paid too much per pound, …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Even if corpses do not feel theft, anyone who is shown to have robbed the dead is proven utterly devoid of all natural feeling. Consider what has been entrusted to you: the chastity of the living and the security of the dead. [5] You also have no small amount of revenue from perpetual tax rights across the provinces. Y …
ambrose_milan · c. 388 · score 0.02
Ambrose, Bishop, to the Emperor Valentinian. Although the success of my first embassy was sufficiently proven to you — I was detained in Gaul for days precisely because I refused to cooperate with Maximus [the general who had seized Gaul and murdered Emperor Gratian in 383] — I owe you an account of my second, lest any …
leo_great · c. 453 · score 0.02
… t the things of God to the calculations of the world. Constantinople may be the imperial residence, but that does not give its bishop authority over the ancient apostolic foundations. Ambition is not a ground for privilege, and what the Council of Nicaea established, no later assembly may lawfully amend. I urge your cl …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
It is right that royal devotion should accommodate itself to those wounded by the blow of fate, because those whom the adversity of their lot has crushed deserve all the more to be lifted up. We therefore declare to your magnificence by the present authority that you are to allow the sons of Ecdicius -- whom we had pre …
ambrose_milan · c. 380 · score 0.01
Your brother Gratian removed them by formal rescript. Will you now undo what your father allowed to stand and your brother actively abolished? The petition claims to come from the Senate. But the Christian senators — who are the majority — did not consent to it. They did not sign it. They did not authorize it. A handfu …
gregory_great · c. 596 · score 0.01
These things having been ordained and granted by us, study in the governing of your community to show yourself so earnest and attentive in all respects that the malice of the evil one may find nothing there that can be corrupted. All these provisions, set out in this document of injunctions, we decree to be observed, u …
ambrose_milan · c. 380 · score 0.01
Ambrose, Bishop, to the most blessed prince and most Christian Emperor Valentinian. All who live under Roman rule serve you, the emperors and princes of the world. But you yourselves serve Almighty God and the holy faith. There is no path to salvation unless everyone worships in truth the true God — the God of the Chri …
augustine_hippo · c. 400 · score 0.01
… , greetings in the Lord. Against the disobedience of dissenters: the utility of imperial laws. 1. The laws that have been passed against the Donatists [imperial edicts aimed at suppressing the Donatist schism in North Africa] are for their own benefit, whatever they may think. A physician is not the patient's enemy bec …
gregory_great · c. 603 · score 0.01
… rejoicing, we who are glad that the kindness of Your Piety has ascended to the imperial throne. "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad" (Psalm 96:11). Let the whole people of the republic, so long and so grievously afflicted, grow cheerful at your generous deeds. Let the proud minds of enemies be brought …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.01
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful — on the death of the Emperor Theodosius. Forty days have passed since the death of the Emperor Theodosius [following the biblical pattern of forty-day mourning periods], and it is time to speak what is in our hearts. We have lost the last great emperor. I say this knowing that his sons …
leo_great · c. 453 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to the Emperor Marcian Augustus, by the hand of Lucian the bishop and Basil the deacon. I. He congratulates the Emperor on his role in the triumph of the Catholic faith By the great bounty of God's mercy the joys of the whole Catholic Church have been multiplied, now that through your clemency's ho …
chrysostom · c. 380 · score 0.01
… amily which has been immersed in such great calamities as the ills in which the imperial house has been steeped. For untimely loss of parents, and of husbands, and violent forms of death, more outrageous and painful than those which occur in tragedies, especially beset this kind of government. Now passing over ancient …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
It is a pleasure to entrust responsibilities to proven men, since the judgment of the one who chooses is vindicated by their selection, and what is committed to the approved rests on a secure foundation. Just as we hope to find men who please us, so we take care that those who please us may flourish. Therefore, setting …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
[1] The Count of the Private Estates, as the very name suggests, was originally charged with managing the personal property of former emperors through the oversight of accountants. Because the office could not properly exercise judicial authority among people of the lowest legal condition, it wisely took on additional …
gregory_great · c. 603 · score 0.01
… urdens of long duration have been lifted from our necks, and the gentle yoke of imperial authority has returned, one that subjects are glad to bear. Let glory be given to the Creator of all by the choirs of angels on high. Let thanksgiving be offered by men on earth. For the whole republic, which has endured so many wo …
augustine_hippo · c. 408 · score 0.01
The ruler who restrains the wicked man by force may be doing the wicked man the greatest possible service — by preventing him from committing further sins that will weigh against him at the judgment. Third: the virtues Christ commands — patience, mercy, forgiveness, humility — are not alternatives to justice. They are …
gregory_great · c. 603 · score 0.01
… e yoke of sorrow has been lifted and we have come to times of freedom under the imperial authority of Your Benign Piety. That Your Serenity has not found a deacon of the Apostolic See resident at the court according to ancient custom is not due to any negligence on my part, but to the most pressing necessity. While all …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
It would be pointless to praise eloquence in a quaestor, since he is specifically chosen for the purpose of enhancing the age's reputation through the quality of his words. Other judges are entrusted with collecting provincial revenues; others are given custody of the private treasury. But in the quaestor are lodged th …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to Leo Augustus. I. He sends envoys but urges against any fresh discussion of the faith Rejoicing that it has been demonstrated to me by many clear proofs how earnestly you safeguard the interests of the universal Church, I have not delayed in obeying your Majesty's instructions at the first opport …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.01
They have already been heard. They have already been answered. They have already been condemned. There is nothing left to discuss with them. If your Majesty permits the faith to be debated again, the heretics will interpret this not as an exercise of fairness but as an admission that the Council's definition was uncert …
ambrose_milan · c. 388 · score 0.01
Ambrose, Bishop, to the most merciful prince and most blessed Emperor Theodosius. I am constantly burdened with cares, most blessed Emperor, but I have never been in such distress as now. I see that I must take every precaution against anything that might be charged to me as approaching sacrilege. I beg you: hear me wi …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
I want you to correct whatever has been done in this way without delay. Slaves taken into church possession without trial should be returned before any trial, so that if the Church has a legitimate claim, the current possessors may then be dispossessed through proper legal proceedings. Correct all this permanently. You …