The Age of the Fathers: Being Chapters in the History of the Church During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1903 - Church history |
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Page 259 - The very God ! think, Abib ; dost thou think ? So, the All-Great were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, " 0 heart I made, a heart beats here ! " Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself! " Thou hast no power nor may'st conceive of mine : " But love I gave thee, with myself to love, " And thou must love me who have died for thee ! " The madman saith He said so : it is strange.
Page 170 - I argue about the world ; —if there be a God, since there is a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity. It is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator. This is a fact, a fact as true as the fact of its existence; and thus the doctrine of what is theologically called original sin becomes to me almost as certain as that the world exists, and as the existence of God.
Page 105 - I have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; and therefore I die in exile...
Page 368 - Father before ages as to his Godhead, and in the last days, the Same, for us and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin Theotokos as to his manhood...
Page 259 - Sayeth that such an one was born and lived, Taught, healed the sick, broke bread at his own house, Then died, with Lazarus by, for aught I know, And yet was . . . what I said nor choose repeat...
Page 474 - The Father is greater than I.' For although in the Lord Jesus Christ there is one Person of God and man, yet...
Page 282 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God...
Page 204 - Milevis 82 for the necessity of baptizing infants, from the necessity of their eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man.
Page 306 - ... fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te.