A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus, 1899Christian literature Company, 1899 - Christian literature, Early |
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... language on which he set his stamp so great a control of the future . The influence of Hilary on the other hand is his by right . His intercourse with the East had a marked effect upon him . It quickened a natural bent for speculation ...
... language on which he set his stamp so great a control of the future . The influence of Hilary on the other hand is his by right . His intercourse with the East had a marked effect upon him . It quickened a natural bent for speculation ...
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... language of the courtier and the administrator . The two were of almost equal importance ; if an Oriental like Ammianus Marcellinus could write , and write well , in Latin , we may be certain that , in return , Greek was familiar to ...
... language of the courtier and the administrator . The two were of almost equal importance ; if an Oriental like Ammianus Marcellinus could write , and write well , in Latin , we may be certain that , in return , Greek was familiar to ...
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... language as this of Jerome shews that Hilary's literary accomplishments were recognised , even though it fails to describe them well . But though he had at his command , and avowedly employed , the resources of rhetoric in order that ...
... language as this of Jerome shews that Hilary's literary accomplishments were recognised , even though it fails to describe them well . But though he had at his command , and avowedly employed , the resources of rhetoric in order that ...
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... language and idiom , which can only have been acquired in his earlier days . And this assured possession of literary form was naturally accompanied by a philosophical training . Of one branch of a philosophical education , that of logic ...
... language and idiom , which can only have been acquired in his earlier days . And this assured possession of literary form was naturally accompanied by a philosophical training . Of one branch of a philosophical education , that of logic ...
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... language was , of course , in great measure conventional ; we know from Cicero's letters how little superlatives , whether of flattery or abuse , need mean , and language had certainly not grown more sincere under the Empire . The ...
... language was , of course , in great measure conventional ; we know from Cicero's letters how little superlatives , whether of flattery or abuse , need mean , and language had certainly not grown more sincere under the Empire . The ...
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Page 91 - But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Page 28 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 236 - BLESSED is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners : and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.
Page 99 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him; and to every seed his own body.
Page 4 - Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible ; and in One Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages ; God of God ; Light of Light ; True God of True God ; begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father, by Whom all things were made.
Page 175 - And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham ! Abraham! and he said here am I. And he said lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him ; for now I know that thou fearest God-, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 85 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 149 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Page 78 - Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Page 96 - Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...