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NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Letter CXXX. To Demetrias. Jerome writes to Demetrias, a highborn lady of Rome who had recently embraced the vocation of a virgin. After narrating her life’s history first at Rome and then in Africa, he goes on to lay down rules and principles to guide her in her new life.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
———————————— The Life of Paulus was written in the year 374 or 375 during Jerome’s stay in the desert of Syria,…
Orthodoxy by Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
VI. THE PARADOXES OF CHRISTIANITY THE real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
WRITTEN BY MOSES. That the Pentateuch was written by Moses, is the voice of all antiquity. It has been all along, even to this day, the received opinion of both Jews and Christians, that Moses, being commanded and inspired by God, wrote those books, which are called the Pentateuch, except only some particular passages, which were inserted afterwards by a divine direction,…
NPNF2-10. Ambrose: Selected Works and Letters by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
1. In the former book I indulged my longing to some extent, lest too sharp remedies applied to a burning wound might rather increase than assuage the pain. And as at the same time I often addressed my brother, and had him before my eyes, it was not out of place to let natural feelings have a little play, since they are somewhat satisfied by tears, soothed by weeping, and numbed by a shock.
NPNF2-10. Ambrose: Selected Works and Letters by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Epistle LXIII. Limenius, Bishop of Vercellæ, having died, the see remained long vacant owing to domestic factions. St. Ambrose, therefore, as Exarch,…
Institutes of the Christian Religion by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
CHAPTER 25. OF THE LAST RESURRECTION. There are four principal heads in this chapter,—I. The utility, necessity, truth, and irrefragable evidence of the orthodox doctrine of a final resurrection—a doctrine unknown to philosophers, sec.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
M A T T H E W. CHAP. XX. We have four things in this chapter. I. The parable of the labourers in the vineyard, ver. 1-16. II. A prediction of Christ's approaching sufferings, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
J O H N. CHAP. XX. This evangelist, though he began not his gospel as the rest did, yet concludes it as they did, with the history of Christ' resurrection; not of the thing itself,…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. [Written a.d. 252.] An Address to Demetrianus. Argument.—Cyprian, in Reply to Demetrianus the Proconsul of Africa, Who Contended that the Wars, and Famine,…