Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — [149] [This vision naturally belongs to book ii., to which it is a preface.]
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
[150] Keep them. That you may be able to keep them more easily by reading them from time to time.--Vat. [151] ["The Shepherd," then, is the "angel of repentance," here represented as a guardian angel. This gives the work its character, as enforcing primarily the anti-Montanist principle of the value of true repentance in the sight of God.] __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________
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