ST See also:HILARION (c. 290--371)
, See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot, the first to introduce the monastic See also:system into See also:Palestine
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The See also:chief source of See also:information is a See also:life written by St See also:Jerome; it was based upon a See also:letter, no longer extant, written by St See also:Epiphanius, who had known See also:Hilarion
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The accounts in See also:Sozomen are mainly based on Jerome's Vita; but See also:Otto Zocker has shown that Sozomen also had at his disposal See also:authentic See also:local traditions (see " Hilarion von See also:Gaza " in the Neue Jahrbilcher See also:fir deutsche Theologie, 1894), the most important study on Hilarion, which is written against the hypercritical school of Weingarten and shows that Hilarion must be accepted as an See also:historical personage and the Vita as a substantially correct See also:account of his career
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He was See also:born of See also:heathen parents at Tabatha near Gaza about 29o; he was sent to See also:Alexandria for his See also:education and there became a convert to See also:Christianity; about 306 he visited St See also:Anthony and became his See also:disciple, embracing the eremitical life
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He returned to his native See also:place and for many years lived as a See also:hermit in the See also:desert by the marshes on the See also:Egyptian border
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Many disciples put them-selves under his guidance; but his See also:influence must have been limited to See also:south Palestine, for there is no mention of him in See also:Palladius or Cassian
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In 356 he See also:left Palestine and went again to See also:Egypt; but the accounts given in the Vita of his travels during the last fifteen years of his life must be taken with extreme caution
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It is there said that he went from Egypt to See also:Sicily, and thence to See also:Epidaurus, and finally to See also:Cyprus where he met Epiphanius and died in 371
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An abridged See also:story of his life will be found in See also:Alban See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler's Lives of the See also:Saints, on the 21st of See also:October, and a See also:critical See also:sketch with full references in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (ed
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HILAR?US (HILARY1), ST (c
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300-367), See also:bishop of Pictavium (See also:Poitiers), an eminent " See also:doctor " of the Western See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, some-times referred to as the " malleus Arianorum " and the " See also:Athanasius of the See also:West," was born at Poitiers about the end of the 3rd See also:century A.D
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His parents were pagans of distinction
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He received a See also:good education, including what had even then become somewhat rare in the West, some knowledge of See also:Greek
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He studied, later on, the Old and New Testament writings, with the result that he abandoned his neo-See also:platonism for Christianity, and with his wife and his daughter received the See also:sacrament of See also:baptism
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So See also:great was the respect in which he was held by the citizens of Poitiers that about 353, although still a married See also:man, he was unanimously elected bishop
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At that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Arianism was threatening to overrun the Western Church; to repel the irruption was the great task which Hilary undertook
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One of his first steps was to secure the See also:excommunication, by those of the Gallican See also:hierarchy who still remained orthodox, of See also:Saturninus, the Arian bishop of See also:Arles and of Ursacius and See also:Valens, two of his prominent supporters
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About the same time he wrote to the See also:emperor See also:Constantius a remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to crush their opponents (Ad Constantium Augustum See also:liber primes, of which the most probable date is 355)
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His efforts were not at first successful, for at the See also:synod of Biterrae (See also:Beziers), summoned in 356 by
1 The name is derived from Gr. iaapos, See also:gay, cheerful, whence hilarious, hilarity
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Constantius with the professed purpose of settling the See also:long-See also:standing disputes, Hilary was by an imperial rescript banished with Rhodanus of See also:Toulouse to See also:Phrygia, in which See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile he spent nearly four years
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Thence, however, he continued to govern his See also:diocese; while he found leisure for the preparation of two of the most important of his contributions to dogmatic and polemical See also:theology, the De synodis or De fide Orientalium, an See also:epistle addressed in 358 to the Semi-Arian bishops in See also:Gaul, See also:Germany and See also:Britain, expounding the true views (sometimes veiled in ambiguous words (of the See also:Oriental bishops on the Nicene controversy, and the De trinitate libri xii.,' composed in 359 and 36o, in which, for the first time, a successful See also:attempt was made to See also:express in Latin the theological subtleties elaborated in the See also:original Greek
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The former of these See also:works was not entirely approved by some members of his own party, who thought he had shown too great forbearance towards the Arians; to their criticisms he replied in the Apologetica ad reprehensores libri de synodis responsa
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In 359 Hilary attended the See also:convocation of bishops at See also:Seleucia in See also:Isauria, where, with the Egyptian Athanasians, he joined the Homoiousian See also:majority against the Arianizing party headed by Acacius of Caesarea; thence he went to See also:Constantinople, and, in a See also:petition (Ad Constanlium Augustum See also:Tiber See also:secundus) personally presented to the emperor in 36o, repudiated the calumnies of his enemies and sought to vindicate his trinitarian principles
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His urgent and repeated See also:request for a public discussion with his opponents, especially with Ursacius and Valens, proved at last so inconvenient that he was sent back to his diocese, which he appears to have reached about 361, within a very See also:short time of the See also:accession of See also:Julian
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He was occupied for two or three years in combating Arianism within his diocese; but in 364, extending his efforts once more beyond Gaul, he impeached See also:Auxentius, bishop of See also:Milan, and a man high in the imperial favour, as heterodox
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Summoned to appear before the emperor (Valentinian) at Milan and there maintain his charges, Hilary had the See also:mortification of See also:hearing the supposed heretic give satisfactory answers to all the questions proposed; nor did his (doubtless sincere) denunciation of the See also:metropolitan as a hypocrite See also:save himself from an ignominious See also:expulsion from Milan
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In 365 he published the Contra Arianos vel Auxentium Mediolanensent Tiber, in connexion with the controversy; and also (but perhaps at a somewhat earlier date) the Contra Constantium Augustum Tiber, in which he pronounced that lately deceased emperor to have been See also:Antichrist, a See also:rebel against See also:God, " a See also:tyrant whose See also:sole See also:object had been to make a See also:gift to the See also:devil of that See also:world for which See also:Christ had suffered." Hilary is sometimes regarded as the first Latin See also:Christian hymn-writer, but none of the compositions assigned to him is indisputable
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The later years of his life were spent in See also:comparative quiet, devoted in See also:part to the preparation of his expositions of the See also:Psalms (Tractatus super Psalmos), for which he was largely indebted to See also:Origen; of his Commentarius in Evangelium Matthaei, a See also:work on allegorical lines of no exegetical value; and of his no longer extant See also:translation of Origen's commentary on See also:Job
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While he thus closely followed the two great Alexandrians, Origen and Athanasius, in exegesis and Christology respectively, his work shows many traces of vigorous See also:independent thought
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He died in 367; no more exact date is trustworthy
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He holds the highest See also:rank among the Latin writers of his century
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Designated already by See also:Augustine as " the illustrious doctor of the churches," he by his works exerted an increasing influence in later centuries; and by See also:Pius IX. he was formally recognized as " universae ecclesiae doctor " at the synod of See also:Bordeaux in 1851
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Hilary's See also:day in the See also:Roman See also:calendar is the 13th of See also:January
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Hilary's 'bwn See also:title was De fide contra Arianos
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It really deals less with the See also:doctrine of the Trinity than with that of the Incarnation
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That it is not an easy work to read is due partly to the nature of the subject, partly to the fact that it was issued in detached portions
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2 " Hilary " was the name of one of the four terms of the See also:English legal See also:year
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These terms were abolished by the Judicature See also:Act, 1873, s
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26, and " sittings " substituted
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