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... schools , chiefly as regards the Prophets , in harmony with Greek thought , and as a main line of apologetic ... Application to the New Testament writings by the Gnostics and the Alexandrines ... ... ... Its aid as solution of the Old ...
... schools , chiefly as regards the Prophets , in harmony with Greek thought , and as a main line of apologetic ... Application to the New Testament writings by the Gnostics and the Alexandrines ... ... ... Its aid as solution of the Old ...
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... school . Plutarch , the prolific essayist and diligent encyclopædist , whose materials are far more valuable to us than the edifices which he erects with them . Maximus of Tyre , the eloquent preacher , in whom the cold metaphysics of ...
... school . Plutarch , the prolific essayist and diligent encyclopædist , whose materials are far more valuable to us than the edifices which he erects with them . Maximus of Tyre , the eloquent preacher , in whom the cold metaphysics of ...
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... schools which lasted on in the great cities of the empire until the verge of Christian times . We have ample evidence also as to the state of Chris- tian thought in the post - Nicene period . The Fathers Athanasius , Basil , Gregory of ...
... schools which lasted on in the great cities of the empire until the verge of Christian times . We have ample evidence also as to the state of Chris- tian thought in the post - Nicene period . The Fathers Athanasius , Basil , Gregory of ...
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... schools . Of African writers , we have Tertullian , a skilled lawyer , who would in modern times have taken high rank as a pleader at the bar or as a leader of Parliamentary debate ; and Cyprian , who sur- vives chiefly as a champion of ...
... schools . Of African writers , we have Tertullian , a skilled lawyer , who would in modern times have taken high rank as a pleader at the bar or as a leader of Parliamentary debate ; and Cyprian , who sur- vives chiefly as a champion of ...
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... schools which they had left , and that of the Christians who were saying " Non possumus " to philosophy.1 The little trust that we can place in the accounts which their opponents give of them is shown by the wide differences in those ...
... schools which they had left , and that of the Christians who were saying " Non possumus " to philosophy.1 The little trust that we can place in the accounts which their opponents give of them is shown by the wide differences in those ...
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Page 169 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 47 - Libanius, there was a y'//J</)irr/irt (Liban. defort. sua, vol. ip 59), which points to an assimilation of Athenian usage in his time to that which is mentioned in the following note. 2 This was fixed by a law of Julian in 362, which, however, states it as a concession on the part of the Emperor : " quia singulis civitatibus adesse ipse non possum, jubeo quisquis docere vult non repente nee temere prosiliat ad hoc munus sed judicio ordinis probatus decretum curialium mereatur, optimorum conspirante...
Page 252 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.