Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series Volume V Gregory of NyssaPhilip Schaff |
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... speak the new monastic devotion. But the labours of J. A. Krabinger, F. Oehler, and G. H. Forbes upon the text, though ail abruptly ended, have helped to repair the neglect of the past. They in this century, as the scholars of Paris ...
... speak the new monastic devotion. But the labours of J. A. Krabinger, F. Oehler, and G. H. Forbes upon the text, though ail abruptly ended, have helped to repair the neglect of the past. They in this century, as the scholars of Paris ...
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... speak of those ' who do not need any cleansing at all *,' and the context forces us to apply these words to men. There is no irony, to him or to any Father of the fourth century, in the words, ' They that are whole need not a physician ...
... speak of those ' who do not need any cleansing at all *,' and the context forces us to apply these words to men. There is no irony, to him or to any Father of the fourth century, in the words, ' They that are whole need not a physician ...
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... speak of " God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost," the word and is employed to conjoin the terms expressive of the Persons, not the repeated term which is expressive of the Essence, and which therefore, while applied to ...
... speak of " God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost," the word and is employed to conjoin the terms expressive of the Persons, not the repeated term which is expressive of the Essence, and which therefore, while applied to ...
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... speaking of " three Gods " would infallibly expose us. S. Gregory's own doctrine, indeed, has seemed to some critics ... speaking, in the given case, of the three human persons as " three men," it would not follow that we should be ...
... speaking of " three Gods " would infallibly expose us. S. Gregory's own doctrine, indeed, has seemed to some critics ... speaking, in the given case, of the three human persons as " three men," it would not follow that we should be ...
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... speak of them as " three," he holds that that use of numerical language is justifiable, so long as we do not transfer the idea of number from the mtoor&aem to the oia-la, to that Nature of God which is Itself beyond our conception, and ...
... speak of them as " three," he holds that that use of numerical language is justifiable, so long as we do not transfer the idea of number from the mtoor&aem to the oia-la, to that Nature of God which is Itself beyond our conception, and ...
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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