Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 189
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I
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Then I continued, " I purpose to quote to you Scriptures, not that I am anxious to make merely an artful display of words ; for I possess no such faculty, but God's grace alone has been granted to me to the understanding of His Scriptures, of which grace I exhort all to become partakers freely and bounteously, in order that they may not, through want of it,^ incur condemnation in the judgment which God the Maker of all things shall hold through my Lord Jesus Christ." And Trypho said, " What you do is worthy of the worship of God ; but you appear to me to feign ignorance when you sa…
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