Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Series 2. In 14 vols. Volume 09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

814 Pages·6.444 MB·English

by  Schaff Philip (Ed.)

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
Author(s): Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor)
Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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Contents
Series Title 1
Title Page 2
Title Page. 2
Preface. 3
Introduction. 6
The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers. 6
The Theology of St. Hilary of Poitiers. 83
De Synodis or On the Councils. 140
Introduction. 140
De Synodis or On the Councils. 144
De Trinitate or On the Trinity. 186
Introduction. 186
De Trinitate or On the Trinity. 197
Book I 197
Book II 216
Book III 234
Book IV 248
Book V 272
Book VI 293
Book VII 325
Book VIII 354
Book IX 383
Book X 429
Book XI 465
Book XII 490
Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX. 517
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Introduction. 517
Homilies on the Psalms. 519
Homily on Psalm I. 519
Homily on Psalm LIII. (LIV.). 531
Homily on Psalm CXXX. (CXXXI.). 539
John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. 541
Title Page. 541
Note. 542
Prologue. 543
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. 546
Book I 546
That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and 546
meddle with the things which have not been delivered to us by the holy
Prophets, and Apostles, and Evangelists.
Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and 548
thing unknowable.
Proof that there is a God. 550
Concerning the nature of Deity: that it is incomprehensible. 552
Proof that God is one and not many. 555
Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a reasoned proof. 557
Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof. 558
Concerning the Holy Trinity. 560
Concerning what is affirmed about God. 572
Concerning divine union and separation. 574
Concerning what is affirmed about God as though He had body. 575
Concerning the Same. 577
Concerning the place of God: and that the Deity alone is uncircumscribed. 580
The properties of the divine nature. 584
Book II 585
Concerning æon or age. 585
Concerning the creation. 587
Concerning angels. 588
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Concerning the devil and demons. 591
Concerning the visible creation. 593
Concerning the Heaven. 594
Concerning light, fire, the luminaries, sun, moon and stars. 598
Concerning air and winds. 604
Concerning the waters. 606
Concerning earth and its products. 609
Concerning Paradise. 612
Concerning Man. 615
Concerning Pleasures. 620
Concerning Pain. 621
Concerning Fear. 622
Concerning Anger. 623
Concerning Imagination. 624
Concerning Sensation. 625
Concerning Thought. 627
Concerning Memory. 628
Concerning Conception and Articulation. 629
Concerning Passion and Energy. 630
Concerning Energy. 635
Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary. 636
Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will. 638
Concerning Events. 640
Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will. 641
Concerning what is not in our hands. 642
Concerning Providence. 643
Concerning Prescience and Predestination. 646
Book III 649
Concerning the Divine Œconomy and God's care over us, and concerning 649
our salvation.
Concerning the manner in which the Word was conceived, and concerning 651
His divine incarnation.
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Concerning Christ's two natures, in opposition to those who hold that He has 653
only one.
Concerning the manner of the Mutual Communication. 657
Concerning the number of the Natures. 659
That in one of its subsistences the divine nature is united in its entirety to the 661
human nature, in its entirety and not only part to part.
Concerning the one compound subsistence of God the Word. 664
In reply to those who ask whether the natures of the Lord are brought under 666
a continuous or a discontinuous quantity.
In reply to the question whether there is Nature that has no Subsistence. 668
Concerning the Trisagium (“the Thrice Holy”). 669
Concerning the Nature as viewed in Species and in Individual, and concerning 671
the difference between Union and Incarnation: and how this is to be
understood, “The one Nature of God the Word Incarnate.”
That the holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an argument directed against the 674
Nestorians.
Concerning the properties of the two Natures. 677
Concerning the volitions and free-will of our Lord Jesus Christ. 678
Concerning the energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. 685
In reply to those who say “If man has two natures and two energies, Christ 693
must be held to have three natures and as many energies.”
Concerning the deification of the nature of our Lord's flesh and of His will. 695
Further concerning volitions and free-wills: minds, too, and knowledges and 697
wisdoms.
Concerning the theandric energy. 700
Concerning the natural and innocent passions. 702
Concerning ignorance and servitude. 703
Concerning His growth. 705
Concerning His Fear. 706
Concerning our Lord's Praying. 707
Concerning the Appropriation. 709
Concerning the Passion of our Lord's body, and the Impassibility of His 710
divinity.
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Concerning the fact that the divinity of the Word remained inseparable from 711
the soul and the body, even at our Lord's death, and that His subsistence
continued one.
Concerning Corruption and Destruction. 712
Concerning the Descent to Hades. 713
Book IV 714
Concerning what followed the Resurrection. 714
Concerning the sitting at the right hand of the Father. 715
In reply to those who say “If Christ has two natures, either ye do service to 716
the creature in worshipping created nature, or ye say that there is one nature
to be worshipped, and another not to be worshipped.”
Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became man: 717
and what having became man He achieved.
In reply to those who ask if Christ's subsistence is create or uncreate. 719
Concerning the question, when Christ was called. 720
In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two 722
natures, and whether two natures hung upon the Cross.
How the Only-begotten Son of God is called first-born. 723
Concerning Faith and Baptism. 724
Concerning Faith. 729
Concerning the Cross and here further concerning Faith. 730
Concerning Worship towards the East. 734
Concerning the holy and immaculate Mysteries of the Lord. 736
Concerning our Lord's genealogy and concerning the holy Mother of God. 742
Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains. 746
Concerning Images. 749
Concerning Scripture. 751
Regarding the things said concerning Christ. 754
That God is not the cause of evils. 760
That there are not two Kingdoms. 762
The purpose for which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would 764
sin and not repent.
Concerning the law of God and the law of sin. 765
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Against the Jews on the question of the Sabbath. 767
Concerning Virginity. 770
Concerning the Circumcision. 773
Concerning the Antichrist. 775
Concerning the Resurrection. 777
Indexes 782
Index of Scripture References 783
Greek Words and Phrases 788
Index of Pages of the Print Edition 804
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Series Title
Series Title
A SELECT LIBRARY
OF THE
NICENE AND
I
POST-NICENE FATHERS
OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
SECOND SERIES
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH PROLEGOMENA AND EXPLANATORY
NOTES.
Edited by
PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,
PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
NEW YORK.
AND
HENRY WACE, D.D.,
PRINCIPAL OF KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON.
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