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Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 197

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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I

Passage referenceAnte-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 197
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" And the same sentiment was expressed, my friends, by the word of God [written] by Moses, when it indicated to us, with regard to Him whom it has pointed out,^ that God speaks in the creation of man with the very same design, in the following words : ' Let Us make man after our image and likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creeping things that creep on the earth. And God created man : after the image of God did He create him ; male and female created He them. A…
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The Ante-Nicene fathers. translations of the writings of the fathers down to A.D. 325.
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