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57221 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 217.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… is more highly commended than the subject of this sketch; and it can be said with truth that there is none other whose writings have had so blighting an influence …
57222 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 217.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… produced more books than any other of the so-called Fathers. Killen (Ancient Church, period 2, sec. 2, chap. 1, paragraph 22) says:— “Origen was a most prolific author …
57223 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 218.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
“By proclaiming the reconciliation of science with the Christian faith, of the highest culture with the gospel, Origen did more than any other man to win the Old World to the Christian religion.”
57224 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 219.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… explained more correctly than all others, that most important branch of philosophy which treats of God and supersensible things.
57225 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 220.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… wiser than all others, and as having advanced sentiments concerning God, the soul, and supersensible things, more accordant with the principles of Christianity …
57226 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 230.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… Latin more than seventy of those treatises of Origen which are styled Homilies, and a considerable number also of his writings on the apostles, in which a …
57227 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 245.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… are more delighted with the pomp and splendor of external forms and pageantry, than with the true devotion of the heart, and who despise whatever does not …
57228 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 246.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… held more sacred than what were called the ‘mysteries.’ This circumstance led the Christians, in order to impart dignity to their religion, to say, that they …
57229 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 252.5 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… less than a hundred years after the death of the last apostle, the Christian church had begun to assume the color of heathenism. And as the heathen “mysteries …
57230 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 255.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… were more consistent than those of later years. Infant baptism, so called, is at the present time practiced by the greater part of Christendom. Now nothing …
57231 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 257.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… little more ancient, but not less superstitious, than the former; which was a custom that began to prevail among some weak people in Africa, of giving baptism …
57232 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 257.3 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… wiser than man. Nothing is more to be deprecated than an attempt to improve upon the institutions of Christ. Baptism, as established by the divine founder …
57233 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 270.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… somewhat more perfect than the latter. And it is most certain that this kind of conduct was so far productive of the desired effect, as to cause not a few of the …
57234 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 273.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… even more Catholic than Catholicism itself:—“Many of the ancients believed that there would be a fire of probation, through which all must pass at the last …
57235 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 276.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… rather than truth for its object.” If this was done by the teachers in the church, it is easy to imagine what was the prevalent standard; and remember that this …
57236 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 289.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… Polycarp more precious than gold or diamonds. The remains of Ignatius were held in equal veneration by the Christians at Antioch. The friends of Cyprian …
57237 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 296.3 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… with more respect than other days of the week.”
57238 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 298.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… whit more sacred, and if it were universally violated by mankind, its sacredness would be just as great as when in Eden the Lord blessed and sanctified it. But …
57239 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 303.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… Christmas more strictly than they do Sunday, for so did “the church.”
57240 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 320.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… not more pagan than was Constantine, who expected that both pagans and Christians would pay him divine honors after his death. The man was utterly incapable …