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Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — "But he became moist water, and a tree of lofty branches."

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Passage referenceAnte-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — "But he became moist water, and a tree of lofty branches."

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2

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Passions break out, pleasures overflow; beauty fades, and falls quicker than the leaf on the ground, when the amorous storms of lust blow on it before the coming of autumn, and is withered by destruction. For lust becomes and fabricates all things, and wishes to cheat, so as to conceal the man. But that man with whom the Word dwells does not alter himself, does not get himself up: he has the form which is of the Word; he is made like to God; he is beautiful; he does not ornament himself: his is beauty, the true beauty, for it is God; and that man becomes God, since God so wills. Heracl…

Source: Christian Classics Ethereal Library — ANF02 UTF-8 text
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