Eastern Orthodox Saints in English
Eastern Orthodox Saints in English
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St. Gregory Thaumaturgus The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen argument i.—for eight years gregory has given up the practice of oratory, being busied with the study chiefly of roman law and the latin language. An excellent thing has silence proved itself in many another person on many an occasion, and at present it befits…
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St. Gregory Thaumaturgus Canonical Epistle canon i. The meats are no burden to us, most holy father, if the captives ate things which their conquerors set before them, especially since there is one report from all, viz., that the barbarians who have made inroads into our parts have not sacrificed to idols. For the apostle…
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St. Gregory Thaumaturgus A Metaphrase of the Book of Ecclesiastes chap. i. These words speaketh Solomon, the son of David the king and prophet, to the whole Church of God, a prince most honoured, and a prophet most wise above all men. How vain and fruitless are the affairs of men, and all pursuits that…
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St. Gregory Thaumaturgus A Declaration of Faith There is one God, the Father of the living Word, who is His subsistent Wisdom and Power and Eternal Image: perfect Begetter of the perfect Begotten, Father of the only-begotten Son. There is one Lord, Only of the Only, God of God, Image and Likeness of Deity, Efficient…
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St. Irenaeus of Lyons The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching 1. Knowing, my beloved Marcianus, your desire to walk in godliness, which alone leads man to life eternal, I rejoice with you and make my prayer that you may preserve your faith entire and so be pleasing to God who made you. Would that it…
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I Patrick, a sinner, the rudest and the least of all the faithful, and an object of the greatest contempt to many, am the son of Calpornius, a deacon, the son of Potitus, heretofore a presbyter, who lived in Bannavan, a village of Tabernia, in the neighbourhood of which he had a small farm; and…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageThree Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Book III Cyprian to his son Quirinus, greeting. Of your faith and devotion which you manifest to the Lord God, beloved son, you asked me to gather out for your instruction from the Holy Scriptures some heads bearing upon the religious teaching of our school;…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageThree Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Book II Heads 1. That Christ is the First-born, and that He is the Wisdom of God, by whom all things were made. 2. That Christ is the Wisdom of God; and about the sacrament of His incarnation, and passion, and cup, and altar, and…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageThree Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Book I Cyprian to his son Quirinus, greeting. It was necessary, my beloved son, that I should obey your spiritual desire, which asked with most urgent petition for those divine teachings wherewith the Lord has condescended to teach and instruct us by the Holy Scriptures,…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageExhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus Preface 1. You have desired, beloved Fortunatus that, since the burden of persecutions and afflictions is lying heavy upon us, and in the ending and completion of the world the hateful time of Antichrist is already beginning to draw near, I would collect from the sacred…