Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.9: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus (Catholic Edition)
Overview
Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume IX: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series IX Hilary of Poitiers On the Councils, or the Faith of the Easterns On the Trinity Homilies on the Psalms John Damascene An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
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“It was written that in all born and created things God might be known within them and without, overshadowing and indwelling, surrounding all and interfused through all, since palm and hand, which hold, reveal the might of His external control, while throne and footstool, by their support of a sitter, display the subservience of outward things to One within Who, Himself outside them, encloses all in His grasp, yet dwells within the external world which is His own. In this wise does God, from within and from without, control and correspond to the universe; being infinite He is present in all things, in Him Who is infinite all are included.” (Volume 9a, Page 41)
“He revealed that which it was to our profit to know; but what we were unable8 to bear He kept secret. With these things let us be satisfied, and let us abide by them, not removing everlasting boundaries, nor overpassing the divine tradition9.” (Volume 9b, Page 1)
“It is plain, then, that there is a God. But what He is in His essence and nature is absolutely incomprehensible and unknowable.” (Volume 9b, Page 3)
“the knowledge of the existence of God is implanted in us by nature.” (Volume 9b, Page 2)
“My soul measured the mighty workings of God, wrought on the scale of His eternal omnipotence, not by its own powers of perception but by a boundless faith; and therefore refused to disbelieve, because it could not understand, that God was in the beginning with God, and that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, but bore in mind the truth that with the will to believe would come the power to understand.” (Volume 9a, Page 43)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.9: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic 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:6.60.123
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:49Z