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... becomes a test . ... Expansion by " apostolic teaching " The " Apostles ' Creed " and the Bishops ... ... 315 ... 316 , 317 317-319 2. Related question as to sources of the Creed and the materials for its interpretation . Value of ...
... becomes a test . ... Expansion by " apostolic teaching " The " Apostles ' Creed " and the Bishops ... ... 315 ... 316 , 317 317-319 2. Related question as to sources of the Creed and the materials for its interpretation . Value of ...
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... become familiar , not only with their names , but also with their works . Dio of Prusa , commonly known as Dio Chry- sostom , " Dio of the golden mouth , " who was raised above the class of travelling orators to which he belonged , not ...
... become familiar , not only with their names , but also with their works . Dio of Prusa , commonly known as Dio Chry- sostom , " Dio of the golden mouth , " who was raised above the class of travelling orators to which he belonged , not ...
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... become either accurate observers or impartial judges . There is the more reason for doing so , because the study of Christian history is no doubt discredited by the dissonance in the voices of its exponents . An ill - informed writer ...
... become either accurate observers or impartial judges . There is the more reason for doing so , because the study of Christian history is no doubt discredited by the dissonance in the voices of its exponents . An ill - informed writer ...
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... becomes of extreme importance to allow for the difference , so to speak , of mental longitude . The men of earlier days had other mental scenery round them . Fewer streams of thought had converged upon them . Consequently 18 I ...
... becomes of extreme importance to allow for the difference , so to speak , of mental longitude . The men of earlier days had other mental scenery round them . Fewer streams of thought had converged upon them . Consequently 18 I ...
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... become no longer enough for men to till the ground , or to pursue their several handicrafts , or to be practised in the use of arms . The word σοφός , which in earlier times had been applied to one who was skilled in any of the arts of ...
... become no longer enough for men to till the ground , or to pursue their several handicrafts , or to be practised in the use of arms . The word σοφός , which in earlier times had been applied to one who was skilled in any of the arts of ...
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Page 170 - 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 xxiv - The Sermon on the Mount is the promulgation of a new law of conduct; it assumes beliefs rather than formulates them ; the theological conceptions which underlie it belong to the ethical rather than the speculative side of theology; metaphysics are wholly absent. The Nicene Creed is a statement partly of historical facts and partly of dogmatic inferences ; the metaphysical terms which it contains would probably have been unintelligible to the first disciples ; ethics have no place in it. The one belongs...
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