Wherefore all the human qualities of the Lord Christ, hunger,… and thirst and weariness, sleep, fear, sweat, prayer, and ignorance, and the like, we affirm to belong to our nature which God the Word assumed and united to Himself in effecting our salvation. But the restitution of motion to the maimed, the resurrection of the dead, the supply of loaves, and all the other miracles we believe to be works […]
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Theodoret: Dialogues or Eranistes
Mediator between God and Man “There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.” … in this passage that very name ‘mediator’ stands indicative both of Godhead and of manhood. He is called a mediator because He does not exist as God alone; for how, if He had had nothing of our nature could He have mediated […]
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The Exile of St. John Chrysostom
The First Exile After the departure of Epiphanius, John, when preaching in the church as usual, chanced to inveigh against the vices to which females are peculiarly prone. The people imagined that his strictures were enigmatically directed against the wife of the emperor. The enemies of the bishop did not fail to report his discourse in this sense to the empress; and she, conceiving herself to have been insulted, complained […]
Read moreSocrates: Ecclesiastical History I
Massacre in the Cathedral When the Emperor Constantius, who then held his court at Antioch, heard that Paul [bishop of Constantinople] had again obtained possession of the episcopal throne, he was excessively enraged at his presumption. He therefore despatched a written order to Philip, the Prætorian Prefect,… to drive Paul out of the church again, and introduce Macedonius into it in his place. … Philip, dreading an insurrectionary movement among […]
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Constantine on Faith
This is indeed heavenly wisdom, to choose rather to endure than to inflict injury, and to be ready, should necessity so require, to suffer, but not to do, wrong. For since injurious conduct is in itself a most serious evil, it is not the injured party, but the injuring, on whom the heaviest punishment must fall. It is indeed possible for one who is subject to the will of God […]
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Constantine on Providence
Chance, Fate or Providence The great majority, however, in their folly, ascribe the regulation of the universe to nature, while some imagine fate, or accident, to be the cause. With regard to those who attribute the control of all things to fate, they know not that in using this term they utter a mere word, but designate no active power, nor anything which has real and substantial existence. For what […]
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Constantine on Christ
What is True Power It is asserted, then, by some profane and senseless persons, that Christ, whom we worship, was justly condemned to death, and that he who is the author of life to all, was himself deprived of life. … it is beyond the bounds of folly itself that they should… persuade themselves that the incorruptible God yielded to the violence of men, and not rather to that love […]
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