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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...

in order that, as I have already said, the variation of language may indicate the variation of nature.1 Verily it is sufficiently obvious that in their quibbling about the words they are endeavouring to maintain the force of their impious argument. By the term “of whom” they wish to indicate the Creator; by the term “through whom,” the subordinate agent2 or instrument;3 by the term “in whom,” or “in which,” they mean to shew the time or place. The object of all this is that the Creator of the
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