Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.2: Socrates, Sozomenus: Church Histories (Catholic Edition)
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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume II: Socrates, Sozomenus: Church Histories. 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 II Sozomen The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen Socrates Scholasticus The Ecclesiastical History, by Socrates Scholasticus
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“‘If,’ said he, ‘the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his subsistance3 from nothing.” (Page 3)
“If any one says that it was not the Son that was seen by Abraham, but the unbegotten God, or a part of him, let him be anathema. If any one says that it was not the Son that as man wrestled with Jacob, but the unbegotten God, or a part of him, let him be anathema. If any one shall understand the words, ‘The Lord rained from the Lord,’4 not in relation to the Father and the Son, but shall say that he rained from himself, let him be anathema: for the Lord the Son rained from the Lord the Father.” (Page 57)
“Nestorius thus acquired the reputation among the masses of asserting the blasphemous dogma that the Lord is a mere man, and attempting to foist on the Church the dogmas of Paul of Samosata and Photinus; and so great a clamor was raised by the contention that it was deemed requisite to convene a general council to take cognizance of the matter in dispute.” (Page 171)
“he seemed scared at the term Theotocos, as though it were some terrible phantom.” (Page 171)
“Peter, bishop of Alexandria, had suffered martyrdom under Diocletian” (Page 3)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.2: Socrates, Sozomenus: Church Histories (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 2
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1890
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.116
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:42Z