Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1654
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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For production is twofold--of things procreated, and of things that grow. And manliness in man, who is subject to perturbation, as they say, makes him who partakes of it essentially fearless and invincible; and anger is the mind's satellite in patience, and endurance, and the like; and self-constraint and salutary sense are set over desire. But God is impassible, free of anger, destitute of desire. And He is not free of fear, in the sense of avoiding what is terrible; or temperate, in the sense of having command of desires. For neither can the nature of God fall in with anything terrib…
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