Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1523
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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For He who said, "Honour thy father and thy mother," [3080] will have most assuredly, as Himself willing to be proved by such proofs, kept inviolate that grace, and His own decree towards her who ministered to Him that nativity to which He voluntarily stooped, and will have glorified with a divine honour her whom He, as being without a father, even as she was without a husband, Himself has written down as mother. Even so must these things be. For the hymns [3081] which we offer to thee, O thou most holy and admirable habitation of God, are no merely useless and ornamental words. Nor, a…
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