Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 03 — Section 2271
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 3
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"These things, as I have said before, are more obscure in our tongue because they are put in a metaphorical form in Greek; and in every metaphor, when a translation is made word for word from one language into another, the budding sense of the word is choked as it were with brambles." If you do not find in the Greek the very thought which I have expressed, I give you leave to treat all that I say as my own. __________________________________________________________________ 28. The sixth and last point which I am told that he brings against me (that is if my brother has not left anythi…
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