Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series Volume V Gregory of NyssaPhilip Schaff |
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... created is subject to change. The Uncreate Being is changeless, but Creation, since its very beginning was owing to a change, i.e. a calling of the non-existent into existence, is liable to alter. Gregory deals here with angelic equally ...
... created is subject to change. The Uncreate Being is changeless, but Creation, since its very beginning was owing to a change, i.e. a calling of the non-existent into existence, is liable to alter. Gregory deals here with angelic equally ...
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... Created. With regard, then, to this created Spirit-world we find that Gregory, as Basil, teaches that it existed, i. e. it had been created, before the work of the Six Days began, « God made all that is, at once ' {6SP4m). This is only ...
... Created. With regard, then, to this created Spirit-world we find that Gregory, as Basil, teaches that it existed, i. e. it had been created, before the work of the Six Days began, « God made all that is, at once ' {6SP4m). This is only ...
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... created in the Scriptural sense of that word, which is certainly an advance upon Justin ; but his creation is not that distinct event in time which Christianity requires and the exacter treatment of the nature of the Divine Persons had ...
... created in the Scriptural sense of that word, which is certainly an advance upon Justin ; but his creation is not that distinct event in time which Christianity requires and the exacter treatment of the nature of the Divine Persons had ...
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... creation per se. Souls cannot have the attributes of Deity. Created spirits cannot claim immediate kindred with the Aeyoc. So instead of the Platonic antithesis of the intelligible and sensible world, which Origen adopted, making all ...
... creation per se. Souls cannot have the attributes of Deity. Created spirits cannot claim immediate kindred with the Aeyoc. So instead of the Platonic antithesis of the intelligible and sensible world, which Origen adopted, making all ...
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... created. So the life of humanity contains them : when the occasion comes they take their beginning along with the body which enshrines them, but are not created then any more than that body. Such was the compromise between spiritualism ...
... created. So the life of humanity contains them : when the occasion comes they take their beginning along with the body which enshrines them, but are not created then any more than that body. Such was the compromise between spiritualism ...
Contents
33 | |
Books TilIX Translation with Notes by Rev H A Wilson | 135 |
Books XXII Rev H C Ogles translation revised with Notes by Rev H | 220 |
On the Holy Spirit against Mscedonius A Fragment Translation with Notes | 326 |
On Not three Gods Translation with Notes by Rev H A Wilson 386 331 337 | 386 |
The Great Catechism | 471 |
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