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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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1. But as they produce a certain composition by Nepos, [613] on which they insist very strongly, as if it demonstrated incontestably that there will be a (temporal) reign of Christ upon the earth, I have to say, that in many other respects I accept the opinion of Nepos, and love him at once for his faith, and his laboriousness, and his patient study in the Scriptures, as also for his great efforts in psalmody, [614] by which even now many of the brethren are delighted. I hold the man, too, in deep respect still more, inasmuch as [615] he has gone to his rest before us. Nevertheless the…
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