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athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.02
… as a pattern to all the people of the faithful, and an example of virtue:— our imperial Majesty recalls you, and desires that you should return to the office of the teaching of salvation. Return then to the holy Churches, and tend the people of God, and send up to God with zeal your prayers for our clemency. For we kn …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.02
'And now again, we have certain other accusations against Athanasius.' Emperor: 'The rights of the case will not appear by means of crowded numbers, and clamours, but choose two from yourselves, and from the party of the majority other two, for I cannot answer each one severally.' Those from the majority: 'These are th …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.02
For I am at the Court, having been summoned by the emperor Constantine to see him. But the Meletians, who were present there, being envious, sought our ruin before the Emperor. But they were put to shame and driven away from there as calumniators, being confuted by many things. Those who were driven away were Callinicu …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.02
2. For know, most religious Augustus, that these things have been preached from time immemorial, and this faith the Fathers who met at Nicæa confessed; and to it have assented all the Churches in every quarter, both those in Spain, and Britain, and the Gauls, and all Italy and Dalmatia, Dacia and Mœsia, Macedonia and a …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.02
You have tomorrow and the day after, for I am going out to Camp.' And a certain lawyer belonging to the Cynics petitioned the Emperor: 'May it please your Majesty, on account of Bishop Athanasius, the Receiver-General seized my houses.' Emperor: 'If the Receiver-General seized your houses what has that to do with Athan …
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. 350 · score 0.01
Nay but if you feared the times and acted as you did from timidity, your mind is not manly; for in such a case you ought to manifest zeal for Christ, and rather meet circumstances boldly, and use the language of blessed Paul: 'in all these things we are more than conquerors Romans 8:37;' and the more so in that we ough …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
And why do they advise you not to take up the bishop's office, when they themselves wish to have presbyters ? For if you are bad, let them not associate with you. But if they know that you are good, let them not envy the others. For if, as they say, teaching and government is an occasion of sin, let them not be taught …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Letter 55 Letter to Rufinianus. To our lord, son, and most desired fellow-minister Rufinianus. Athanasius greeting in the Lord. You write what is proper for a beloved son to write to a father: accordingly, I embraced you when you came near me in writing, most desired Rufinianus. And I, though I might write to you as a …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Letter 2 For 330. Easter-day xxiv Pharmuthi; xiii Kal. Mai; Æra Dioclet. 46; Coss. Gallicianus, Valerius Symmachus; Præfect, Magninianus; Indict. iii. Again, my brethren, is Easter come and gladness; again the Lord has brought us to this season; so that when, according to custom, we have been nourished with His words, …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
For who shall receive what the Lord condemned? And will not he who takes up the support of that which He has made excommunicate, be guilty of great impiety, and manifestly an enemy of Christ? 5. Now this is sufficient to confound the contentious; read it therefore to those who before raised this question, as well as wh …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
But may it come to pass that you may quickly return, in order that you too may be one of those who are praised. Or tell me, whom do your advisers wish you to imitate? For we ought to walk by the standard of the saints and the fathers, and imitate them, and to be sure that if we depart from them we put ourselves also ou …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
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. 350 · score 0.01
For they assured us that they had not gone over to impiety; but lest certain most impious persons should be elected and ruin the Churches they elected rather to acquiesce in the violence and to bear the burden, than to lose the people. But in saying this, they appeared to us to say what was plausible; for they alleged …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
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 0.01
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. 350 · score 0.01
And he declared upon oath that he held the right Faith, and gave in an account of his Faith in writing, suppressing the points for which he had been cast out of the Church by the Bishop Alexander, and speciously alleging expressions out of the Scriptures. When therefore he swore that he did not profess the opinions for …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
For it is possible for you also as a bishop to hunger and thirst Philippians 4:12, as Paul did. You can drink no wine, like Timothy 1 Timothy 5:23, and fast constantly too, like Paul 2 Corinthians 11:27, in order that thus fasting after his example you may feast others with your words, and while thirsting for lack of d …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 350 · score 0.01
Letter 59 To Epictetus. To my Lord, beloved brother, and most-longed-for fellow-minister Epictetus , Athanasius greeting in the Lord. I thought that all vain talk of all heretics, many as they may be, had been stopped by the Synod which was held at Nicæa. For the Faith there confessed by the Fathers according to the di …
athanasius_alexandria · c. 339 · score 0.01
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 0.01
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. 350 · score 0.01
But if they wish to abide by their impieties, let them alone take their fill of them, and let them gnash their teeth like their father the devil, because the Faith of the Catholic Church knows that the Word of God is creator and maker of all things; and we know that while 'in the beginning was the Word, and the Word wa …
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 10 For 338. Coss. Ursus and Polemius; Præf. the same Theodorus, of Heliopolis, and of the Catholics . After him, for the second year, Philagrius; Indict. xi; Easter-day, vii Kal. Ap. xxx Phamenoth; Moon 18 1/2; Æra Dioclet. 54. Although I have travelled all this distance from you, my brethren, I have not forgott …
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 …