Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 07 — Section 321
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Volume 7
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 7
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7. What then, beloved, are we going to explain that which we have asked, how the Word seeth, how the Father is seen by the Word, what the seeing of the Word is? I am not so bold, so rash, as to promise to explain this, for myself or for you: however I estimate your measure, still I know my own. Therefore, if you please, not to delay it longer, let us run over the passage, and see how carnal hearts are troubled by the words of the Lord; to this end troubled, that they may not continue in that which they hold. Let this be wrested from them, as some toy is wrested from children, with whic…
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