Lectures upon the ecclesiastical history of the first three centuries ... to the year 313, Issue 171, Volume 21839 |
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Page 433 - ... in which the Christians were tormented, and we know that this was the case for several years e. The see of Alexandria was now filled by Peter, who had before been teacher in the catechetical school', and succeeded Theonas in the bishopric in the year 300, three years before the persecution began «. He had been a sufferer with Dionysius fifty years before in the Decian persecution ; and his great age, as we shall presently see, did not preserve him from still severer trials. The whole of Africa...
Page 403 - Eusebius, were 26ydetained in the East to be promoted to the highest stations. Theotecnus, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, fixed upon Anatolius to succeed him in his diocese. Some form of consecration by imposition of hands was used on such occasions ; and for some time they both exercised the episcopal functions ; which is the first instance on record of a bishop having a coadjutor.
Page 491 - The fiery trial of ten years would naturally purify the church from these corrupt or useless members : and if we were to fix upon any time since the days of the Apostles, when the lives of Christians were likely to win the hearts of the heathen, it would probably be the time when the death of Maximinus placed the whole of the empire at the disposal of Constantine. The conversion of this emperor to the Christian faith was undoubtedly a most favourable circumstance ; but it was the consequence, as...
Page 216 - The churches of Asia Minor* adhered to the Jewish method of observing the Paschal festival on the fourteenth day of the first month; whereas all the other churches kept it on the day before the Sunday on which they celebrated our Lord's resurrection. It is singular, that even the church of Jerusalem was opposed to those of Asia Minor upon this point. Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea, and Narcissus, bishop of Jerusalem, took the lead among the bishops of Palestine. Caesarea appears to have been a kind...
Page 355 - He disclaims any wish to dictate himself ; but at the same time he asserts the right of every bishop to make rules for his own church, holding himself responsible to God alone. That Cyprian was sincere in these professions of moderation, may be seen by what he says in a letter written shortly after to Jubaianus, an African bishop, in which he defends at some length his own opinions, but gives to every bishop the right of acting for himself...
Page 27 - Ignatius took the opportunity of writing from Smyrna to the Churches over which these bishops presided ; and his epistles to the .Ephesians, Trallians, and Magnesians, are still extant. Hearing also of some Ephesians, who were going to Rome, and who were likely to arrive there more expeditiously than himself, he addressed a letter to the Church in that city. His principal object in writing was to prevent any attempt which the Roman Christians might have made to procure a reprieve from the death which...
Page 28 - ... was met as before by some of the neighbouring Bishops ; and the Bishop of Philadelphia became the bearer of a letter which he wrote to the Christians in that city. He also wrote from the same place to the Church of Smyrna ; and the personal regard which he had for Polycarp, the Bishop of that see, will explain why he also wrote to him, and made it his dying request that he would attend to the Church of Antioch. These seven Epistles, which were written by Ignatius from Smyrna and Troas, are still...
Page 144 - Christians take the body, lest they should proceed to give up Jesus, and worship Polycarp. The Jews were therefore well aware that Jesus was an object of religious worship to the Christians ; but the writers of the letter add the remark, that the case anticipated by the Jews was perfectly impossible : Jesus, they observe, and Jesus only, could be the object of their worship ; to him, as the Son of God, they offered adoration : but the martyrs, as disciples and imitators of the Lord, were merely objects...
Page 234 - Tertullian," as the learned Dr. Burton says, "upon great points of doctrine is considered to be little, if at all, affected by his becoming a Montanist." (Lectures on Eccl. Hist. vol. ii. p. 234.) Besides the different works which are expressly mentioned in the notes of this volume, recourse has been had by the translator to Dupin's Hist. Eccl. Writers (trans.), vol. i. pp. 69-86; Tillemont's Mémoires Hist.