Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — [3302] That is, that God is a Spirit. [Note our author's spirit of faith in Christ.]
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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[3303] Orelli would refer these words to God; he thinks that with those immediately following they may be understood of God's spiritual nature,--an idea which he therefore supposes Arnobius to assert had never been grasped by the heathen. [3304] So Gelenius, followed by Orelli and others, for the corrupt reading of the ms., idem ne quis; but possibly both this and the preceding clause have crept into the text from the margin, as in construction they differ from the rest of the sentence, both that which precedes, and that which follows. [3305] The phrase animalibus causis is regarded b…
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