Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume IX
Overview
This edition of Phillip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers includes works Hilary of Poitiers and John of Damascus.
Product Details
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume IX
- Author: Phillip Schaff
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1888
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“For no man knows God unless He confess Him as Father, Father of the Only-begotten Son, and confess also the Son, a Son by no partition or extension or procession, but born of Him, as Son of Father, ineffably and incomprehensibly, and retaining the fulness of that Godhead from which and in which He was born as true and infinite and perfect God.” (Volume 9a, Page 67)
“The eternity of the Father, as we concluded after full discussion in the last Book, transcends space, and time, and appearance, and all the forms of human thought. He is without and within all things, He contains all and can be contained by none, is incapable of change by increase or diminution, invisible, incomprehensible, full, perfect, eternal, not deriving anything that He has from another, but, if ought be derived from Him, still complete and self-sufficing.” (Volume 9a, Page 62)
“There is no space where God is not; space does not exist apart from Him. He is in heaven, in hell, beyond the seas; dwelling in all things and enveloping all. Thus He embraces, and is embraced by, the universe, confined to no part of it but pervading all.” (Volume 9a, Page 42)
“His is a greatness too vast for our comprehension but not for our faith. For a reasonable faith is akin to reason and accepts its aid, even though that same reason cannot cope with the vastness of eternal Omnipotence.” (Volume 9a, Page 42)
“But the errors of heretics and blasphemers force us to deal with unlawful matters, to scale perilous heights, to speak unutterable words, to trespass on forbidden ground. Faith ought in silence to fulfil the commandments, worshipping the Father, reverencing with Him the Son, abounding in the Holy Ghost, but we must strain the poor resources of our language to express thoughts too great for words. The error of others compels us to err in daring to embody in human terms truths which ought to be hidden in the silent veneration of the heart.” (Volume 9a, Page 52)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.9: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
- Authors: Hilary of Poitiers, Philip Schaff, John of Damascus, Henry Wace
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)
- Volume: 9
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1899
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Era: era:byzantine
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.23
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-03-15T15:32:43Z