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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume IX: St. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus. 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...

effort to define Him, the gap was not lessened between the finite nature which struggled and the boundless infinity that lay beyond its ken1. I had come by reverent reflection on my own part to understand this, but I found it confirmed by the words of the prophet, Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy face? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I go down into hell, Thou art there also; if I have taken my wings before dawn and made my dwelling in the uttermost
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