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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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And Wisdom being manifold, pervading the whole world, and all human affairs, varies its appellation in each case. When it applies itself to first causes, it is called Understanding (noesis). When, however, it confirms this by demonstrative reasoning, it is termed Knowledge, and Wisdom, and Science. When it is occupied in what pertains to piety, and receives without speculation the primal Word [3484] in consequence of the maintenance of the operation in it, it is called Faith. In the sphere of things of sense, establishing that which appears as being truest, it is Right Opinion. In oper…
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- Christian Classics Ethereal Library — ANF02 UTF-8 text
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