Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series Volume V Gregory of NyssaPhilip Schaff |
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... flesh, it was a novel stroke to bring the beliefs of Empedocles, Pythagoras, Plato, and the later Platonists, into one focus as it were, and to show that the teaching of those philosophers as to the destinies of the soul recognized the ...
... flesh, it was a novel stroke to bring the beliefs of Empedocles, Pythagoras, Plato, and the later Platonists, into one focus as it were, and to show that the teaching of those philosophers as to the destinies of the soul recognized the ...
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... flesh), and his fall was not a mere ' accident, but a necessary consequence of this mixed nature. Adam must have fallen : there was no perfect humanity in Paradise. In man's mixed nature of spirit and flesh nutrition is the basis of his ...
... flesh), and his fall was not a mere ' accident, but a necessary consequence of this mixed nature. Adam must have fallen : there was no perfect humanity in Paradise. In man's mixed nature of spirit and flesh nutrition is the basis of his ...
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... flesh. The second, the soul proper, is as it were a mediating ground on which the spirit can meet the flesh. The celestial mind, ' the real man fallen from on high,' rules by the power of conscience or of will over this soul, where the ...
... flesh. The second, the soul proper, is as it were a mediating ground on which the spirit can meet the flesh. The celestial mind, ' the real man fallen from on high,' rules by the power of conscience or of will over this soul, where the ...
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... flesh that it performs itself the functions of the animal part ; it is the ' mind ' or ' reason ' itself that sees, hears, &c» ; in fact the exercise of mind depends on a sound state of the senses and other organs of the body ; for a ...
... flesh that it performs itself the functions of the animal part ; it is the ' mind ' or ' reason ' itself that sees, hears, &c» ; in fact the exercise of mind depends on a sound state of the senses and other organs of the body ; for a ...
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... flesh : yet it is an almost forced importation into the rest of his system. Our bodies, he teaches, will rise again : but that which will make us the same persons we were before is not the sameness of our bodies (for they will be ...
... flesh : yet it is an almost forced importation into the rest of his system. Our bodies, he teaches, will rise again : but that which will make us the same persons we were before is not the sameness of our bodies (for they will be ...
Contents
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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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