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De Synodis

St. Hilary of Poitiers

De Synodis: On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia

Introduction to the Treatise De Synodis. ———————————— Hilary had taken no part in the Synod held at Ancyra in the spring of a.d. 358, but he had been made acquainted with its decisions and even with the anathemas which…

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4 On the Councils, or, The Faith of the Easterns. ———————————— To the most dearly loved and blessed brethren our fellow-bishops of the province of Germania Prima and Germania Secunda, Belgica Prima and Belgica Secunda,…

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s to exist at a definite moment. And He who creates makes His object through His mere power, and creation is the work of might, not the birth of a nature from a nature that besets it.

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the Father and the Son. For when it is said, God of God, whole God of whole God , there is no room for doubting that whole God is born of whole God.

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re-eminence as His birthless nature gives. XI. “If any man hearing The Word was made Flesh thinks that the Word was transformed into Flesh, or says that He suffered change in taking Flesh: let him be anathema.” 48.

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good confession so gratifies them that it aids heresy when the word ὁμοούσιος is left by itself, undefined and ambiguous. There is also a third error.

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things were made which are in heaven and in earth, Who for our salvation came down, And was incarnate, And was made man, And suffered, And rose again the third day, And ascended into heaven, And shall come to judge the…

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