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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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(Since the body of the Catholic Church is one, etc., p. 296.) As so shortly preceding the meeting of the Great Council, this letter is most important as a clear testimony to the meaning the first council attached to that article of the Creed which affirms "one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church." We must compare the Treatises of Cyprian for the West, with this and the Letter of Firmilian [2485] for the East, as clearly elucidating the contemporary mind of the Church, and hence the meaning of those words which reflect their mind in the Creed. To make any reflections of my own would be o…
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