Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 04 — Section 484
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 4
[237] The Bened. text is corrected here on the ground (1) of ms. evidence, (2) of construction (for which see 6, 7, and c. Gent. 20. 3). __________________________________________________________________ §14. A portrait once effaced must be restored from the original. Thus the Son of the Father came to seek, save, and regenerate. No other way was possible. Blinded himself, man could not see to heal. The witness of creation had failed to preserve him, and could not bring him back. The Word alone could do so. But how? Only by revealing Himself as Man.
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