Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 03 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 2715
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 3
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hsu_338f9ca5-c510-4ca3-8193-3e1a4e7ccd74This identity belongs to this edition’s reading. Cross-witness correspondence awaits review.
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3
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Now this consideration of the phrase in question, and its signification--besides maintaining, of course, the true meaning of the important words--must needs contribute to this further result, that whatever obscurity our adversaries throw over the subject under the pretence of figurative and allegorical language, the truth will stand out in clearer light, and out of uncertainties certain and definite rules will be prescribed. For some, when they have alighted on a very usual form of prophetic statement, generally expressed in figure and allegory, though not always, distort into some ima…
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- Christian Classics Ethereal Library — ANF03 UTF-8 text
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- Administrator-authorized historic edition; CCEL electronic text. Preserve source attribution and upstream reuse terms.
- Reading language
- English
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