Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 02 — Section 679
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Volume 2
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 2
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What angels, then, are we to believe in this matter of blessed and eternal life?--those who wish to be worshipped with religious rites and observances, and require that men sacrifice to them; or those who say that all this worship is due to one God, the Creator, and teach us to render it with true piety to Him, by the vision of whom they are themselves already blessed, and in whom they promise that we shall be so? For that vision of God is the beauty of a vision so great, and is so infinitely desirable, that Plotinus does not hesitate to say that he who enjoys all other blessings in ab…
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