Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series Volume V Gregory of NyssaPhilip Schaff |
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... once ' {6SP4m). This is only his translation of the verse, ' In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth;' the material for 'heaven' and 'earth,' Le. spirits and chaos, was made in a moment, but God had not yet spoken the ...
... once ' {6SP4m). This is only his translation of the verse, ' In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth;' the material for 'heaven' and 'earth,' Le. spirits and chaos, was made in a moment, but God had not yet spoken the ...
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... once revealed during the performance its bestial nature, at the sight of food. This is hardly worthy of a great writer, as Gregory was ". Especially happy are his comparisons in the treatise On the Soul and Resurrection, by which ...
... once revealed during the performance its bestial nature, at the sight of food. This is hardly worthy of a great writer, as Gregory was ". Especially happy are his comparisons in the treatise On the Soul and Resurrection, by which ...
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... once pre-existence was given up, the parts of the soul could be more closely united to each other, because the lower and higher were in their beginning no longer separated by a gulf of ages. Accordingly Gregory, reducing the. three ...
... once pre-existence was given up, the parts of the soul could be more closely united to each other, because the lower and higher were in their beginning no longer separated by a gulf of ages. Accordingly Gregory, reducing the. three ...
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... once exerts power over it In fact it requires this instrument before it can reach its perfection. ' Seeing, then, man is a reasoning animal of a certain kind, it was necessary that the body should be prepared as an instrument ...
... once exerts power over it In fact it requires this instrument before it can reach its perfection. ' Seeing, then, man is a reasoning animal of a certain kind, it was necessary that the body should be prepared as an instrument ...
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... once reasoning and sentient he must perforce feel within himself the struggle of reason and passion, and that it was inevitable that sin should enter into the world : it was a consequence of his mixed nature. This mixed nature of the ...
... once reasoning and sentient he must perforce feel within himself the struggle of reason and passion, and that it was inevitable that sin should enter into the world : it was a consequence of his mixed nature. This mixed nature of the ...
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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