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Ante-Nicene Fathers

Fathers

Ante-Nicene Fathers

ANF Volume 6: Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus; Dionysius; Julius Africanus; Anatolius; Methodius; Arnobius

Schaff English

Edited by Philip Schaff

Nineteenth-century public-domain English.

Public domain. Not a modern critical edition.

Contents

  1. Title Pages
  2. Introductory Notice
  3. Gregory Thaumaturgus
    1. Introductory Note
    2. Acknowledged Writings
      1. A Declaration of Faith
        1. A Declaration of Faith
        2. Elucidation
      2. A Metaphrase of the Book of Ecclesiastes
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
      3. Canonical Epistle
        1. Canon I
        2. Canon II
        3. Canon III
        4. Canon IV
        5. Canon V
        6. Canon VI
        7. Canon VII
        8. Canon VIII
        9. Canon IX
        10. Canon X
        11. Canon XI
        12. Elucidations
      4. The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen
        1. For Eight Years Gregory Has Given Up the Practice of Oratory, Being Busied with the Study Chiefly of Roman Law and the Latin Language
        2. He Essays to Speak of the Well-Nigh Divine Endowments of Origen in His Presence, into Whose Hands He Avows Himself to Have Been Led in a Way Beyond All His Expectation
        3. He is Stimulated to Speak of Him by the Longing of a Grateful Mind. To the Utmost of His Ability He Thinks He Ought to Thank Him. From God are the Beginnings of All Blessings; And to Him Adequate Thanks Cannot Be Returned
        4. The Son Alone Knows How to Praise the Father Worthily. In Christ and by Christ Our Thanksgivings Ought to Be Rendered to the Father. Gregory Also Gives Thanks to His Guardian Angel, Because He Was Conducted by Him to Origen
        5. Here Gregory Interweaves the Narrative of His Former Life. His Birth of Heathen Parents is Stated. In the Fourteenth Year of His Age He Loses His Father. He is Dedicated to the Study of Eloquence and Law. By a Wonderful Leading of Providence, He is Brought to Origen
        6. The Arts by Which Origen Studies to Keep Gregory and His Brother Athenodorus with Him, Although It Was Almost Against Their Will; And the Love by Which Both are Taken Captive. Of Philosophy, the Foundation of Piety, with the View of Giving Himself Therefore Wholly to that Study, Gregory is Willing to Give Up Fatherland, Parents, the Pursuit of Law, and Every Other Discipline. Of the Soul as the Free Principle. The Nobler Part Does Not Desire to Be United with the Inferior, But the Inferior with the Nobler
        7. The Wonderful Skill with Which Origen Prepares Gregory and Athenodorus for Philosophy. The Intellect of Each is Exercised First in Logic, and the Mere Attention to Words is Contemned
        8. Then in Due Succession He Instructs Them in Physics, Geometry, and Astronomy
        9. But He Imbues Their Minds, Above All, with Ethical Science; And He Does Not Confine Himself to Discoursing on the Virtues in Word, But He Rather Confirms His Teaching by His Acts
        10. Hence the Mere Word-Sages are Confuted, Who Say and Yet Act Not
        11. Origen is the First and the Only One that Exhorts Gregory to Add to His Acquirements the Study of Philosophy, and Offers Him in a Certain Manner an Example in Himself. Of Justice, Prudence, Temperance, and Fortitude. The Maxim, Know Thyself
        12. Gregory Disallows Any Attainment of the Virtues on His Part. Piety is Both the Beginning and the End, and Thus It is the Parent of All the Virtues
        13. The Method Which Origen Used in His Theological and Metaphysical Instructions. He Commends the Study of All Writers, the Atheistic Alone Excepted. The Marvellous Power of Persuasion in Speech. The Facility of the Mind in Giving Its Assent
        14. Whence the Contentions of Philosophers Have Sprung. Against Those Who Catch at Everything that Meets Them, and Give It Credence, and Cling to It. Origen Was in the Habit of Carefully Reading and Explaining the Books of the Heathen to His Disciples
        15. The Case of Divine Matters. Only God and His Prophets are to Be Heard in These. The Prophets and Their Auditors are Acted on by the Same Afflatus. Origen's Excellence in the Interpretation of Scripture
        16. Gregory Laments His Departure Under a Threefold Comparison; Likening It to Adam's Departure Out of Paradise. To the Prodigal Son's Abandonment of His Father's House, and to the Deportation of the Jews into Babylon
        17. Gregory Consoles Himself
        18. Peroration, and Apology for the Oration
        19. Apostrophe to Origen, and Therewith the Leave-Taking, and the Urgent Utterance of Prayer
        20. Elucidations
    3. Dubious or Spurious Writings
      1. A Sectional Confession of Faith
        1. Section I
        2. Section II
        3. Section III
        4. Section IV
        5. Section V
        6. Section VI
        7. Section VII
        8. Section VIII
        9. Section IX
        10. Section X
        11. Section XI
        12. Section XII
        13. Section XIII
        14. Section XIV
        15. Section XV
        16. Section XVI
        17. Section XVII
        18. Section XVIII
        19. Section XIX
        20. Section XX
        21. Section XXI
        22. Section XXII
        23. Section XXIII
        24. A Fragment of the Same Declaration of Faith, Accompanied by Glosses — -From Gregory Thaumaturgus, as They Say, in His Sectional Confession of Faith
        25. Elucidations
      2. On the Trinity
        1. Fragment from the Discourse
        2. Elucidation
      3. Twelve Topics on the Faith
        1. Topic I
        2. Topic II
        3. Topic III
        4. Topic IV
        5. Topic V
        6. Topic VI
        7. Topic VII
        8. Topic VIII
        9. Topic IX
        10. Topic X
        11. Topic XI
        12. Topic XII
        13. Elucidations
      4. On the Subject of the Soul
        1. Preface
        2. Section I
        3. Section II
        4. Section III
        5. Section IV
        6. Section V
        7. Section VI
        8. Section VII
        9. Elucidations
      5. Four Homilies
        1. On the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary
        2. On the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary. Discourse Second
        3. On the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary
        4. On the Holy Theophany, or on Christ's Baptism
        5. Elucidations
      6. On All the Saints
        1. On All the Saints
        2. Elucidations
      7. On the Gospel According to Matthew
  4. Dionysius
    1. Introductory Note
    2. Extant Fragments
      1. Containing Various Sections of the Works
        1. From the Two Books on the Promises
        2. From the Books on Nature
          1. In Opposition to Those of the School of Epicurus Who Deny the Existence of a Providence, and Refer the Constitution of the Universe to Atomic Bodies
          2. A Refutation of This Dogma on the Ground of Familiar Human Analogies
          3. A Refutation on the Ground of the Constitution of the Universe
          4. A Refutation of the Same on the Grounds of the Human Constitution
          5. That to Work is Not a Matter of Pain and Weariness to God
        3. From the Books Against Sabellius. On the Notion that Matter is Ungenerated
        4. Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome
          1. From the First Book
          2. From the Same First Book
          3. From the Same First Book
          4. From the Second Book
          5. From the Same Second Book
          6. From the Same Second Book
          7. From the Third Book
          8. From the Fourth Book
          9. About the Middle of the Treatise
          10. The Conclusion of the Entire Treatise
        5. The Epistle to Bishop Basilides
          1. Canon I
          2. Canon II
          3. Canon III
          4. Canon IV
      2. Containing Epistles, or Fragments of Epistles
        1. To Domitius and Didymus
        2. To Novatus
        3. To Fabius, Bishop of Antioch
        4. To Cornelius the Roman Bishop
        5. Which is the First on the Subject of Baptism Addressed to Stephen, Bishop of Rome
        6. To Sixtus, Bishop
        7. To Philemon, a Presbyter
        8. To Dionysius
        9. To Sixtus II
        10. Against Bishop Germanus
        11. To Hermammon
        12. To the Alexandrians
        13. To Hierax, a Bishop in Egypt
        14. From His Fourth Festival Epistle
        15. Elucidations
    3. Exegetical Fragments
      1. A Commentary on the Beginning of Ecclesiastes
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
      2. The Gospel According to Luke. An Interpretation
      3. On Luke XXII. 42, Etc
      4. An Exposition of Luke XXII. 46, Etc
      5. On John Viii. 12
      6. Of the One Substance
      7. On the Reception of the Lapsed to Penitence
    4. Note by the American Editor
  5. Julius Africanus
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. The Epistle to Aristides
      1. Chapter I
      2. Chapter II
      3. Chapter III
      4. Chapter IV
      5. Chapter V
      6. Chapter VI
    3. Narrative of Events Happening in Persia on the Birth of Christ
    4. The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus
      1. On the Mythical Chronology of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
      2. Part II
      3. Part III
      4. On the Deluge
      5. Part VI
      6. Of Abraham
      7. Of Abraham and Lot
      8. Of the Patriarch Jacob
      9. Part XII
      10. Part Xiii
      11. Part XIV
      12. Part XV
      13. On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel
      14. On the Fortunes of Hyrcanus and Antigonus, and on Herod, Augustus, Antony, and Cleopatra, in Abstract
      15. On the Circumstances Connected with Our Saviour's Passion and His Life-Giving Resurrection
      16. Part XIX
    5. The Passion of St. Symphorosa and Her Seven Sons
    6. Elucidations
  6. Anatolius and Minor Writers
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. Anatolius of Alexandria
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. The Paschal Canon of Anatolius of Alexandria
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. The moon's age set forth in the Julian Calendar
        14. The Paschal or Easter Table of Anatolius
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
      3. Fragments of the Books on Arithmetic
    3. Alexander of Cappadocia
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. From the Epistles of Alexander
        1. An Epistle to the People of Antioch
        2. From an Epistle to the Antinoites
        3. From an Epistle to Origen
        4. From an Epistle to Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria
      3. Note by the American Editor
    4. Theognostus of Alexandria
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. From His Seven Books of Hypotyposes or Outlines
        1. Part I
        2. Part II
        3. Part III
    5. Pierus of Alexandria
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
      3. A Section on the Writings of Pierius
    6. Theonas of Alexandria
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. The Epistle of Theonas, Bishop of Alexandria, to Lucianus, the Chief Chamberlain
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
    7. Phileas
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. Fragments of the Epistle of Phileas to the People of Thmuis
        1. Part I
        2. Part II
        3. Part III
      3. The Epistle of the Same Phileas of Thmuis to Meletius, Bishop of Lycopolis
        1. The Beginning of the Epistle of the Bishops
        2. The Conclusion of the Epistle of the Bishops
    8. Pamphilus
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. An Exposition of the Chapters of the Acts of the Apostles
    9. Malchion
      1. Translator's Biographical Notice
      2. The Epistle Written by Malchion, In Name of the Synod of Antioch, Against Paul of Samosata
      3. Fragments Apparently of the Same Epistle of the Synod of Antioch
      4. From the Acts of the Disputation Conducted by Malchion Against Paul of Samosata
      5. A Point in the Same Disputation
      6. Elucidations
  7. Archelaus
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. The Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
      1. Chapter I
      2. Chapter II
      3. Chapter III
      4. Chapter IV
      5. Chapter V
      6. Chapter VI
      7. Chapter VIII
      8. Chapter IX
      9. Chapter X
      10. Chapter XI
      11. Chapter XII
      12. Chapter XIII
      13. Chapter XIV
      14. Chapter XV
      15. Chapter XVI
      16. Chapter XVII
      17. Chapter XVIII
      18. Chapter XIX
      19. Chapter XX
      20. Chapter XXI
      21. Chapter XXII
      22. Chapter XXIII
      23. Chapter XXIV
      24. Chapter XXV
      25. Chapter XXVI
      26. Chapter XXVII
      27. Chapter XXVIII
      28. Chapter XXIX
      29. Chapter XXX
      30. Chapter XXXI
      31. Chapter XXXII
      32. Chapter XXXIII
      33. Chapter XXXIV
      34. Chapter XXXV
      35. Chapter XXXVI
      36. Chapter XXXVII
      37. Chapter XXXVIII
      38. Chapter XXXIX
      39. Chapter XL
      40. Chapter XLI
      41. Chapter XLII
      42. Chapter XLIII
      43. Chapter XLIV
      44. Chapter XLV
      45. Chapter XLVI
      46. Chapter XLVII
      47. Chapter XLVIII
      48. Chapter IL
      49. Chapter L
      50. Chapter LI
      51. Chapter LII
      52. Chapter LIII
      53. Chapter LIV
      54. Chapter LV
    3. A Fragment of the Same Disputation
      1. Preface
      2. Chapter I
      3. Chapter II
      4. Chapter III
    4. Elucidations
    5. General Note
  8. Alexander of Lycopolis
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. Of the Manichæans
      1. The Excellence of the Christian Philosophy; The Origin of Heresies Amongst Christians
      2. The Age of Manichæus, or Manes; His First Disciples; The Two Principles; Manichæan Matter
      3. The Fancies of Manichæus Concerning Matter
      4. The Moon's Increase and Wane; The Manichæan Trifling Respecting It; Their Dreams About Man and Christ; Their Foolish System of Abstinence
      5. The Worship of the Sun and Moon Under God; Support Sought for the Manichæans in the Grecian Fables; The Authority of the Scriptures and Faith Despised by the Manichæans
      6. The Two Principles of the Manichæans; Themselves Controverted; The Pythagorean Opinion Respecting First Principles; Good and Evil Contrary; The Victory on the Side of Good
      7. Motion Vindicated from the Charge of Irregularity; Circular; Straight; Of Generation and Corruption; Of Alteration, and Quality Affecting Sense
      8. Is Matter Wicked? Of God and Matter
      9. The Ridiculous Fancies of the Manichæans About the Motion of Matter Towards God; God the Author of the Rebellion of Matter in the Manichæan Sense; The Longing of Matter for Light and Brightness Good; Divine Good None the Less for Being Communicated
      10. The Mythology Respecting the Gods; The Dogmas of the Manichæans Resemble This: the Homeric Allegory of the Battle of the Gods; Envy and Emulation Existing In God According to the Manichæan Opinion; These Vices are to Be Found in No Good Man, and are to Be Accounted Disgraceful
      11. The Transmitted Virtue of the Manichæans; The Virtues of Matter Mixed with Equal or Less Amount of Evil
      12. The Destruction of Evil by the Immission of Virtue Rejected; Because from It Arises No Diminution of Evil; Zeno's Opinion Discarded, that the World Will Be Burnt Up by Fire from the Sun
      13. Evil by No Means Found in the Stars and Constellations; All the Evils of Life Vain in the Manichæan Opinion, Which Bring on the Extinction of Life; Their Fancy Having Been Above Explained Concerning the Transportation of Souls from the Moon to the Sun
      14. Noxious Animals Worshipped by the Egyptians; Man by Arts an Evil-Doer; Lust and Injustice Corrected by Laws and Discipline; Contingent and Necessary Things in Which There is No Stain
      15. The Lust and Desire of Sentient Things; Demons; Animals Sentient; So Also the Sun and the Moon and Stars; The Platonic Doctrine, Not the Christian
      16. Because Some are Wise, Nothing Prevents Others from Being So; Virtue is to Be Acquired by Diligence and Study; By a Sounder Philosophy Men are to Be Carried Onwards to the Good; The Common Study of Virtue Has by Christ Been Opened Up to All
      17. The Manichæan Idea of Virtue in Matter Scouted; If One Virtue Has Been Created Immaterial, the Rest are Also Immaterial; Material Virtue an Exploded Notion
      18. Dissolution and Inherence According to the Manichæans; This is Well Put, Ad Hominem, with Respect to Manes, Who is Himself in Matter
      19. The Second Virtue of the Manichæans Beset with the Former, and with New Absurdities; Virtue, Active and Passive, the Fashioner of Matter, and Concrete with It; Bodies Divided by Manichæus into Three Parts
      20. The Divine Virtue in the View of the Same Manichæus Corporeal and Divisible; The Divine Virtue Itself Matter Which Becomes Everything; This is Not Fitting
      21. Some Portions of the Virtue Have Good in Them, Others More Good; In the Sun and the Moon It is Incorrupt, in Other Things Depraved; An Improbable Opinion
      22. The Light of the Moon from the Sun; The Inconvenience of the Opinion that Souls are Received in It; The Two Deluges of the Greeks
      23. The Image of Matter in the Sun, After Which Man is Formed; Trifling Fancies; It is a Mere Fancy, Too, that Man Is Formed from Matter; Man is Either a Composite Being, or a Soul, or Mind and Understanding
      24. Christ is Mind, According to the Manichæans; What is He in the View of the Church? Incongruity in Their Idea of Christ; That He Suffered Only in Appearance, a Dream of the Manichæans; Nothing is Attributed to the Word by Way of Fiction
      25. The Manichæan Abstinence from Living Things Ridiculous; Their Madness in Abhorring Marriage; The Mythology of the Giants; Too Allegorical an Exposition
      26. The Much-Talked-of Fire of the Manichæans; That Fire Matter Itself
    3. Elucidation
  9. Peter of Alexandria
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. The Genuine Acts of Peter
    3. The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras
      1. Canon I
      2. Canon II
      3. Canon III
      4. Canon IV
      5. Canon V
      6. Canon VI
      7. Canon VII
      8. Canon VIII
      9. Canon IX
      10. Canon X
      11. Canon XI
      12. Canon XII
      13. Canon XIII
      14. Canon XIV
      15. Canon XV
    4. Note by the American Editor
    5. Fragments from the Writings of Peter
      1. Letter to the Church at Alexandria
      2. On the Godhead
      3. On the Advent of Our Saviour
      4. On the Sojourning of Christ with Us
      5. That Up to the Time of the Destruction of Jerusalem, the Jews Rightly Appointed the Fourteenth Day of the First Lunar Month
      6. Of the Soul and Body
      7. Fragment
      8. On St. Matthew
      9. From a Sermon
    6. Elucidations
  10. Alexander of Alexandria
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius
      1. To Alexander, Bishop of the City of Constantinople
      2. Epistle Catholic
      3. Epistle to Alexandria and Mareotis
      4. Epistle to Æglon, Bishop of Cynopolis, Against the Arians
      5. On the Soul and Body and the Passion of the Lord
      6. The Addition in the Codex, with a Various Reading
    3. Elucidations
  11. Methodius
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; or Concerning Chastity
      1. Introduction
      2. Marcella
        1. The Difficulty and Excellence of Virginity; The Study of Doctrine Necessary for Virgins
        2. Virginity a Plant from Heaven, Introduced Late; The Advancement of Mankind to Perfection, How Arranged
        3. By the Circumcision of Abraham, Marriage with Sisters Forbidden; In the Times of the Prophets Polygamy Put a Stop To; Conjugal Purity Itself by Degrees Enforced
        4. Christ Alone Taught Virginity, Openly Preaching the Kingdom of Heaven; The Likeness of God to Be Attained in the Light of the Divine Virtues
        5. Christ, by Preserving His Flesh Incorrupt in Virginity, Draws to the Exercise of Virginity; The Small Number of Virgins in Proportion to the Number of Saints
      3. Theophila
        1. Marriage Not Abolished by the Commendation of Virginity
        2. Generation Something Akin to the First Formation of Eve from the Side and Nature of Adam; God the Creator of Men in Ordinary Generation
        3. An Ambiguous Passage of Scripture; Not Only the Faithful But Even Prelates Sometimes Illegitimate
        4. Human Generation, and the Work of God Therein Set Forth
        5. The Holy Father Follows Up the Same Argument
        6. God Cares Even for Adulterous Births; Angels Given to Them as Guardians
        7. The Rational Soul from God Himself; Chastity Not the Only Good, Although the Best and Most Honoured
      4. Thaleia
        1. Passages of Holy Scripture Compared
        2. The Digressions of the Apostle Paul; The Character of His Doctrine: Nothing in It Contradictory; Condemnation of Origen, Who Wrongly Turns Everything into Allegory
        3. Comparison Instituted Between the First and Second Adam
        4. Some Things Here Hard and Too Slightly Treated, and Apparently Not Sufficiently Brought Out According to the Rule of Theology
        5. A Passage of Jeremiah Examined
        6. The Whole Number of Spiritual Sheep; Man a Second Choir, After the Angels, to the Praise of God; The Parable of the Lost Sheep Explained
        7. The Works of Christ, Proper to God and to Man, the Works of Him Who is One
        8. The Bones and Flesh of Wisdom; The Side Out of Which the Spiritual Eve is Formed, the Holy Spirit; The Woman the Help-Meet of Adam; Virgins Betrothed to Christ
        9. The Dispensation of Grace in Paul the Apostle
        10. The Doctrine of the Same Apostle Concerning Purity
        11. The Same Argument
        12. Paul an Example to Widows, and to Those Who Do Not Live with Their Wives
        13. The Doctrine of Paul Concerning Virginity Explained
        14. Virginity a Gift of God: the Purpose of Virginity Not Rashly to Be Adopted by Any One
      5. Theopatra
        1. The Necessity of Praising Virtue, for Those Who Have the Power
        2. The Protection of Chastity and Virginity Divinely Given to Men, that They May Emerge from the Mire of Vices
        3. That Passage of David Explained; What the Harps Hung Upon the Willows Signify; The Willow a Symbol of Chastity; The Willows Watered by Streams
        4. The Author Goes on with the Interpretation of the Same Passage
        5. The Gifts of Virgins, Adorned with Which They are Presented to One Husband, Christ
        6. Virginity to Be Cultivated and Commended in Every Place and Time
      6. Thallousa
        1. The Offering of Chastity a Great Gift
        2. Abraham's Sacrifice of a Heifer Three Years Old, of a Goat, and of a Ram Also Three Years Old: Its Meaning; Every Age to Be Consecrated to God; The Threefold Watch and Our Age
        3. Far Best to Cultivate Virtue from Boyhood
        4. Perfect Consecration and Devotion to God: What It is
        5. The Vow of Chastity, and Its Rites in the Law; Vines, Christ, and the Devil
        6. Sikera, a Manufactured and Spurious Wine, Yet Intoxicating; Things Which are Akin to Sins are to Be Avoided by a Virgin; The Altar of Incense (a Symbol Of) Virgins
        7. The Church Intermediate Between the Shadows of the Law and the Realities of Heaven
        8. The Double Altar, Widows and Virgins; Gold the Symbol of Virginity
      7. Agathe
        1. The Excellence of the Abiding Glory of Virginity; The Soul Made in the Image of the Image of God, that is of His Son; The Devil a Suitor for the Soul
        2. The Parable of the Ten Virgins
        3. The Same Endeavour and Effort After Virginity, with a Different Result
        4. What the Oil in the Lamps Means
        5. The Reward of Virginity
      8. Procilla
        1. What the True and Seemly Manner of Praising; The Father Greater Than the Son, Not in Substance, But in Order; Virginity the Lily; Faithful Souls and Virgins, the One Bride of the One Christ
        2. The Interpretation of that Passage of the Canticles
        3. Virgins Being Martyrs First Among the Companions of Christ
        4. The Passage Explained; The Queens, the Holy Souls Before the Deluge; The Concubines, the Souls of the Prophets; The Divine Seed for Spiritual Offspring in the Books of the Prophets; The Nuptials of the Word in the Prophets as Though Clandestine
        5. The Sixty Queens: Why Sixty, and Why Queens; The Excellence of the Saints of the First Age
        6. The Eighty Concubines, What; The Knowledge of the Incarnation Communicated to the Prophets
        7. The Virgins, the Righteous Ancients; The Church, the One Only Spouse, More Excellent Than the Others
        8. The Human Nature of Christ His One Dove
        9. The Virgins Immediately After the Queen and Spouse
      9. Thekla
        1. Methodius' Derivation of the Word Virginity: Wholly Divine; Virtue, in Greek--ἀρετή, Whence So Called
        2. The Lofty Mind and Constancy of the Sacred Virgins; The Introduction of Virgins into the Blessed Abodes Before Others
        3. The Lot and Inheritance of Virginity
        4. Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity; A Passage from the Apocalypse is Proposed to Be Examined
        5. The Woman Who Brings Forth, to Whom the Dragon is Opposed, the Church; Her Adornment and Grace
        6. The Works of the Church, the Bringing Forth of Children in Baptism; The Moon in Baptism, the Full Moon of Christ's Passion
        7. The Child of the Woman in the Apocalypse Not Christ, But the Faithful Who are Born in the Laver
        8. The Faithful in Baptism Males, Configured to Christ; The Saints Themselves Christs
        9. The Son of God, Who Ever Is, is To-Day Begotten in the Minds and Sense of the Faithful
        10. The Dragon, the Devil; The Stars Struck from Heaven by the Tail of the Dragon, Heretics; The Numbers of the Trinity, that Is, the Persons Numbered; Errors Concerning Them
        11. The Woman with the Male Child in the Wilderness the Church; The Wilderness Belongs to Virgins and Saints; The Perfection of Numbers and Mysteries; The Equality and Perfection of the Number Six; The Number Six Related to Christ; From This Number, Too, the Creation and Harmony of the World Completed
        12. Virgins are Called to the Imitation of the Church in the Wilderness Overcoming the Dragon
        13. The Seven Crowns of the Beast to Be Taken Away by Victorious Chastity; The Ten Crowns of the Dragon, the Vices Opposed to the Decalogue; The Opinion of Fate the Greatest Evil
        14. The Doctrine of Mathematicians Not Wholly to Be Despised, When They are Concerned About the Knowledge of the Stars; The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac Mythical Names
        15. Arguments from the Novelty of Fate and Generation; That Golden Age, Early Men; Solid Arguments Against the Mathematicians
        16. Several Other Things Turned Against the Same Mathematicians
        17. The Lust of the Flesh and Spirit: Vice and Virtue
      10. Tusiane
        1. Chastity the Chief Ornament of the True Tabernacle; Seven Days Appointed to the Jews for Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles: What They Signify; The Sum of This Septenary Uncertain; Not Clear to Any One When the Consummation of the World Will Be; Even Now the Fabric of the World Completed
        2. Figure, Image, Truth: Law, Grace, Glory; Man Created Immortal: Death Brought in by Destructive Sin
        3. How Each One Ought to Prepare Himself for the Future Resurrection
        4. The Mind Clearer When Cleansed from Sin; The Ornaments of the Mind and the Order of Virtue; Charity Deep and Full; Chastity the Last Ornament of All; The Very Use of Matrimony to Be Restrained
        5. The Mystery of the Tabernacles
      11. Domnina
        1. Chastity Alone Aids and Effects the Most Praiseworthy Government of the Soul
        2. The Allegory of the Trees Demanding a King, in the Book of Judges, Explained
        3. The Bramble and the Agnos the Symbol of Chastity; The Four Gospels, that Is, Teachings or Laws, Instructing to Salvation
        4. The Law Useless for Salvation; The Last Law of Chastity Under the Figure of the Bramble
        5. The Malignity of the Devil as an Imitator in All Things; Two Kinds of Fig-Trees and Vines
        6. The Mystery of the Vision of Zechariah
      12. Arete
        1. The True and Chaste Virgins Few; Chastity a Contest; Thekla Chief of Virgins
        2. Thekla Singing Decorously a Hymn, the Rest of the Virgins Sing with Her; John the Baptist a Martyr to Chastity; The Church the Spouse of God, Pure and Virgin
        3. Which are the Better, the Continent, or Those Who Delight in Tranquillity of Life? Contests the Peril of Chastity: the Felicity of Tranquillity; Purified and Tranquil Minds Gods: They Who Shall See God; Virtue Disciplined by Temptations
      13. Elucidations
    3. Concerning Free-Will
    4. From the Discourse on the Resurrection
      1. Part I
      2. The Second Discourse on the Resurrection
      3. Part III
        1. From the Discourse on the Resurrection
        2. A Synopsis of Some Apostolic Words from the Same Discourse
    5. Fragments
      1. On the History of Jonah, from the Book on the Resurrection
      2. Extracts from the Work on Things Created
      3. From the Works of Methodius Against Porphyry
      4. From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs
    6. General Note
    7. Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna On the Day that They Met in the Temple
    8. Oration on the Palms
      1. Oration on the Palms
      2. Elucidations
    9. Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ
      1. Fragment I
      2. The Same Methodius to Those Who are Ashamed of the Cross of Christ
      3. The Same Methodius: How Christ the Son of God, in a Brief and Definite Time, Being Enclosed by the Body, and Existing Impassible, Became Obnoxious to the Passion
    10. Some Other Fragments of the Same Methodius
      1. Fragment I
      2. Fragment II
      3. Fragment III
      4. Fragment IV
      5. Fragment V
      6. Fragment VI
      7. Fragment IX
    11. Two Fragments, Uncertain
      1. Fragment II
    12. General Note
  12. Arnobius
    1. Introductory Notice
    2. The Seven Books of Arnobius Against the Heathen. (Adversus Gentes.)
      1. Book I
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. Chapter XIII
        14. Chapter XIV
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
        18. Chapter XVIII
        19. Chapter XIX
        20. Chapter XX
        21. Chapter XXI
        22. Chapter XXII
        23. Chapter XXIII
        24. Chapter XXIV
        25. Chapter XXV
        26. Chapter XXVI
        27. Chapter XXVII
        28. Chapter XXVIII
        29. Chapter XXIX
        30. Chapter XXX
        31. Chapter XXXI
        32. Chapter XXXII
        33. Chapter XXXIII
        34. Chapter XXXIV
        35. Chapter XXXV
        36. Chapter XXXVI
        37. Chapter XXXVII
        38. Chapter XXXVIII
        39. Chapter XXXIX
        40. Chapter XL
        41. Chapter XLI
        42. Chapter XLII
        43. Chapter XLIII
        44. Chapter XLIV
        45. Chapter XLV
        46. Chapter XLVI
        47. Chapter XLVII
        48. Chapter XLVIII
        49. Chapter XLIX
        50. Chapter L
        51. Chapter LI
        52. Chapter LII
        53. Chapter LIII
        54. Chapter LIV
        55. Chapter LV
        56. Chapter LVI
        57. Chapter LVII
        58. Chapter LVIII
        59. Chapter LIX
        60. Chapter LX
        61. Chapter LXI
        62. Chapter LXII
        63. Chapter LXIII
        64. Chapter LXIV
        65. Chapter LXV
      2. Book II
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. Chapter XIII
        14. Chapter XIV
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
        18. Chapter XVIII
        19. Chapter XIX
        20. Chapter XX
        21. Chapter XXI
        22. Chapter XXII
        23. Chapter XXIII
        24. Chapter XXIV
        25. Chapter XXV
        26. Chapter XXVI
        27. Chapter XXVII
        28. Chapter XXVIII
        29. Chapter XXIX
        30. Chapter XXX
        31. Chapter XXXI
        32. Chapter XXXII
        33. Chapter XXXIII
        34. Chapter XXXIV
        35. Chapter XXXV
        36. Chapter XXXVI
        37. Chapter XXXVII
        38. Chapter XXXVIII
        39. Chapter XXXIX
        40. Chapter XL
        41. Chapter XLI
        42. Chapter XLII
        43. Chapter XLIII
        44. Chapter XLIV
        45. Chapter XLV
        46. Chapter XLVI
        47. Chapter XLVII
        48. Chapter XLVIII
        49. Chapter XLIX
        50. Chapter L
        51. Chapter LI
        52. Chapter LII
        53. Chapter LIII
        54. Chapter LIV
        55. Chapter LV
        56. Chapter LVI
        57. Chapter LVII
        58. Chapter LVIII
        59. Chapter LIX
        60. Chapter LX
        61. Chapter LXI
        62. Chapter LXII
        63. Chapter LXIII
        64. Chapter LXIV
        65. Chapter LXV
        66. Chapter LXVI
        67. Chapter LXVII
        68. Chapter LXVIII
        69. Chapter LXIX
        70. Chapter LXX
        71. Chapter LXXI
        72. Chapter LXXII
        73. Chapter LXXIII
        74. Chapter LXXIV
        75. Chapter LXXV
        76. Chapter LXXVI
        77. Chapter LXXVII
        78. Chapter LXXVIII
      3. Book III
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. Chapter XIII
        14. Chapter XIV
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
        18. Chapter XVIII
        19. Chapter XIX
        20. Chapter XX
        21. Chapter XXI
        22. Chapter XXII
        23. Chapter XXIII
        24. Chapter XXIV
        25. Chapter XXV
        26. Chapter XXVI
        27. Chapter XXVII
        28. Chapter XXVIII
        29. Chapter XXIX
        30. Chapter XXX
        31. Chapter XXXI
        32. Chapter XXXII
        33. Chapter XXXIII
        34. Chapter XXXIV
        35. Chapter XXXV
        36. Chapter XXXVI
        37. Chapter XXXVII
        38. Chapter XXXVIII
        39. Chapter XXXIX
        40. Chapter XL
        41. Chapter XLI
        42. Chapter XLII
        43. Chapter XLIII
        44. Chapter XLIV
      4. Book IV
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. Chapter XIII
        14. Chapter XIV
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
        18. Chapter XVIII
        19. Chapter XIX
        20. Chapter XX
        21. Chapter XXI
        22. Chapter XXII
        23. Chapter XXIII
        24. Chapter XXIV
        25. Chapter XXV
        26. Chapter XXVI
        27. Chapter XXVII
        28. Chapter XXVIII
        29. Chapter XXIX
        30. Chapter XXX
        31. Chapter XXXI
        32. Chapter XXXII
        33. Chapter XXXIII
        34. Chapter XXXIV
        35. Chapter XXXV
        36. Chapter XXXVI
        37. Chapter XXXVII
      5. Book V
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. Chapter XIII
        14. Chapter XIV
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
        18. Chapter XVIII
        19. Chapter XIX
        20. Chapter XX
        21. Chapter XXI
        22. Chapter XXII
        23. Chapter XXIII
        24. Chapter XXIV
        25. Chapter XXV
        26. Chapter XXVI
        27. Chapter XXVII
        28. Chapter XXVIII
        29. Chapter XXIX
        30. Chapter XXX
        31. Chapter XXXI
        32. Chapter XXXII
        33. Chapter XXXIII
        34. Chapter XXXIV
        35. Chapter XXXV
        36. Chapter XXXVI
        37. Chapter XXXVII
        38. Chapter XXXVIII
        39. Chapter XXXIX
        40. Chapter XL
        41. Chapter XLI
        42. Chapter XLII
        43. Chapter XLIII
        44. Chapter XLIV
        45. Chapter XLV
      6. Book VI
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. Chapter XIII
        14. Chapter XIV
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
        18. Chapter XVIII
        19. Chapter XIX
        20. Chapter XX
        21. Chapter XXI
        22. Chapter XXII
        23. Chapter XXIII
        24. Chapter XXIV
        25. Chapter XXV
        26. Chapter XXVI
      7. Book VII
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
        6. Chapter VI
        7. Chapter VII
        8. Chapter VIII
        9. Chapter IX
        10. Chapter X
        11. Chapter XI
        12. Chapter XII
        13. Chapter XIII
        14. Chapter XIV
        15. Chapter XV
        16. Chapter XVI
        17. Chapter XVII
        18. Chapter XVIII
        19. Chapter XIX
        20. Chapter XX
        21. Chapter XXI
        22. Chapter XXII
        23. Chapter XXIII
        24. Chapter XXIV
        25. Chapter XXV
        26. Chapter XXVI
        27. Chapter XXVII
        28. Chapter XXVIII
        29. Chapter XXIX
        30. Chapter XXX
        31. Chapter XXXI
        32. Chapter XXXII
        33. Chapter XXXIII
        34. Chapter XXXIV
        35. Chapter XXXV
        36. Chapter XXXVI
        37. Chapter XXXVII
        38. Chapter XXXVIII
        39. Chapter XXXIX
        40. Chapter XL
        41. Chapter XLI
        42. Chapter XLII
        43. Chapter XLIII
        44. Chapter XLIV
        45. Chapter XLV
        46. Chapter XLVI
        47. Chapter XLVII
        48. Chapter XLVIII
        49. Chapter XLIX
        50. Chapter L
        51. Chapter LI
      8. Appendix
      9. Elucidations
  13. Indexes
    1. Index of Scripture References
    2. Greek Words and Phrases
    3. Index of Pages of the Print Edition