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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume VIII: St. Basil: Letters and Select Works. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during...

every one of them, as it hath pleased Him.”1 But “the members have the same care for one another,”2 according to the inborn spiritual communion of their sympathy. Wherefore, “whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.”3 And as parts in the whole so are we individually in the Spirit, because we all “were baptized in one body into one spirit.”4 62. It is an extraordinary statement, but it is none the less true, that the
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