Book III.Book III. Preface of Rufinus.Reader, remember me in your prayers, that we too may deserve to be made emulators of the spirit. The two former ...
Book VIII.Book VIII. Introduction.As we have described in seven books the events from the time of the apostles,(1) we think it proper in this eighth b...
Book XBook X1. It is manifest that there is nothing which men have ever said which is not liable to opposition. Where the will dissents the mind also ...
Book VIII.Book VIII.Concerning Gifts, and Ordinations, and the Ecclesiastical Canons. Sec. I.-On the Diversity of Spiritual Gifts. On Whose Account th...
Book VII.Book VII. Chapter I.Anthemius the Praetorian Prefect administers the Government of the East in Behalf of Young, Theadosius.After the death of...
Book V.Book V.Wherein Tertullian proves, with respect to St. Paul's epistles, what he had proved in the preceding book with respect to St. Luke's gosp...
Book II.Book II. Chapter I.The first book of our answer to the treatise of Celsus, entitled A True Discourse, which concluded with the representation ...
Book I.Book I.The treatise opens with a short statement on the subject of the authority of the evangelists, their number, their order, and the differe...
Dialogue III.-The Impassible.Dialogue III.-The Impassible.Orthodoxus and Eranistes.Orth.-In our former discussions we have proved that God the Word is...
Book III.Book III. Chapter I.In the first book of our answer to the work of Celsus, who had boastfully entitled the treatise which he had composed aga...
VII. On Modesty. VII. On Modesty.(1) [Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.]Modesty, the flower of manners, the honour of our bodies, the grace of the s...
Oration XLIII. Oration XLIII. Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. S. Basil died January 1, a.d. 379. A serious il...
Book II.Book II. Chapter I.-On Eating.Keeping, then, to our aim, and selecting the Scriptures which bear on the usefulness of training for life, we mu...
Book IV.Book IV. Chapter I.Having, in the three preceding books, fully stated what occurred to us by way of answer to the treatise of Celsus, we now, ...
Book I.Book I. Preface.1. When false witnesses testified against our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, He remained silent; and when unfounded charges wer...
Chapter?27It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing ...
Book II.Book II.Of Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons. Sec. I.-On Examining Candidates for the Episcopal Office. That a Bishop Must Be Well Instructed a...
Councils of Ariminum and SeleuciaCouncils of Ariminum and Seleucia Part I. History of the Councils. Reason why two Councils were called. Inconsistency...
Dialogue II.-The Unconfounded.Dialogue II.-The Unconfounded.Eranistes and Orthodoxus.Eran.-I am come as I promised. 'Tis yours to adopt one of two alt...
Book I.Book I.In which he refutes those who maintain, that Adam must have died even if he had never sinned; and that nothing of his sin has been trans...