Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — Section 737
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 12
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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There is no doubt therefore, dearly-beloved, that man's nature has been received by the Son of God into such a union that not only in that Man Who is the first-begotten of all creatures, but also in all His saints there is one and the self-same Christ, and as the Head cannot be separated from the members, so the members cannot be separated from the Head. For although it is not in this life, but in eternity that God is to be "all in all [1047] ," yet even now He is the inseparable Inhabitant of His temple, which is the Church, according as He Himself promised, saying, "Lo! I am with you…
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