 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...deserved punishment. self with signifying*8 an indirect sort of excommunication, CHAP. by the assurance, that he had been warned in a vision, not to offer the oblation in the name, or in the presence, of Theodosius ; and by the advice, that he would confine himself to the... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Rome - 1841 - 470 pages
...When he heard of the bloody deed, he retired to the country, whence he wrote to the emperor to say that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in his name or presence, and advising him not to think of receiving the Eucharist with his blood-stained hands. Theodosius acknowledged... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Rome - 1850 - 470 pages
...Ambrose. When he heard of the bloody deed he retired to the country, whence he wrote to the emperor to say that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in his name or presence, and advising him not to think of receiving the Eucharist with his blood-stained hands. Theodosius acknowledged... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pages
...; and he contented himself with signifying96 an indirect sort of excommunication, by the assurance that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in the name or in the presence of Theodosius, and by the advice that he would confine himself to the use... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1858 - 424 pages
...signal was given, the soldiers commenced the work of massacre, and all were slain. Ambrose was at thia time Archbishop of Milan, and the part which he took...him admittance to the cathedral, and the lord of the Romish world was obliged to lay aside his imperial robe, and appear in the posture of a suppliant in... | |
 | Come - 1863 - 196 pages
...and wily St. Ambrose was then Archbishop of Milan, and he thereupon wrote to Theodosius, pretending he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in his name or presence, and cautioned him not to receive the Eucharist with his blood-stained hands. Theodosius lamented his offence,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...prudence ; and he contented himself with signifying an indirect sort of excommunication, by the assurance that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in the name, or in the • presence, of Theodosius ; and by the advice that he would confine himself to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 724 pages
...; and he contented himself with signifying'" an indirect sort of excommunication, by the assurance that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation 11 Ills sermon is a strange allegory of Jeremiah's rod, of nn almond-tree, of the woman who washed... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 730 pages
...prudence ; and he contented himself with signifying an indirect sort of excommunication, by the assurance that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in the name or in the presence of Theodosius ; and by the advice that he would confine himself to the... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 714 pages
...prudence ; and he contented himself with signifying an indirect sort of excommunication, by the assurance that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in the name or in the presence of Theodosius ; and by the advice that he would confine himself to the... | |
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Ambrose was tempered by prudence ; and he contented himself with signifying an indirect sort of excommunication, by the assurance that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in the name or in the presence of Theodosius ; and by the advice... 
