Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 05 — Section 1225
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 5
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 5
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That there is, then, a Word of God, and a Breath of God, the Greek, with his "innate ideas" [1953] , and the Jew, with his Scriptures, will perhaps not deny. But the dispensation as regards the Word of God, whereby He became man, both parties would perhaps equally reject, as being incredible and unfitting to be told of God. By starting, therefore, from another point we will bring these gainsayers to a belief in this fact. They believe that all things came into being by thought and skill on the part of Him Who framed the system of the universe; or else they hold views that do not confor…
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