Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 13 — [672] The words for chief and for beginning are almost identical in the Syriac.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 13
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[673] John xv. 12. [674] John xv. 15. [675] Cf. Eph. ii. 4. 5. [676] Cf. Eph. v. 2. [677] Zech. iii. 9. [678] Is. xi. 1, 2. [679] Zech. iv. 10. [680] Is. xlix. 6. [681] Ps. cxix. 105. [682] John i. 1. [683] John i. 5. [684] John i. 11. [685] Matt. x. 27. [686] Cf. Matt. v. 16. [687] Matt. v. 14. [688] Matt. v. 16. [689] John xii. 35. [690] John xii. 36. [691] John viii. 12. [692] Matt. v. 15; Mark iv. 21; Luke viii. 16. [693] Ps. cxix. 105. [694] Hos. x. 12. [695] Luke xv. 8. [696] Ex. xx. 2. [697] Hos. x. 12. [698] Is. lv. 6, 7. [699] Am. viii. 9. (Cf. the commentary…
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