Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — Section 188
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[278] This passage (which is repeated in Serm. liv., chap. 2, down to "injuries"), was objected to by the Illyrian and Palestinian bishops as savouring of the heresy of Nestorius who "divided the substance:" but it is obvious that the same words might have an orthodox meaning in the mouth of one who was orthodox and to the unorthodox would bear an unorthodox construction. [279] S. John i. l. [280] Ibid. 14. [281] Ibid. 3, the Latin is per ipsum (Gk. di' autou) (through Him). [282] Gal. iv. 4. [283] Viz., that it was laid "in a manger:" the Gk. version has sparganon, "swaddling cloth…
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