Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — [4143] Perhaps "abilities"--materiis.
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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[4144] The ms. reads cum--"with similar reason we may believe," instead of cur, as above. __________________________________________________________________ 13. Or, if you refuse to believe this on account of its novelty, [4145] how can you know whether there is not some one, who comes in place of all whom you invoke, and substituting himself in all parts of the world, [4146] shows to you what appear to be [4147] many gods and powers? Who is that one? some one will ask. We may perhaps, being instructed by truthful authors, be able to say; but, lest you should be unwilling to believe u…
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