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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...

1. THE words of the Lord, I in the Father, and the Father in Me1, confuse many minds, and not unnaturally, for the powers of human reason cannot provide them with any intelligible meaning. It seems impossible that one object should be both within and without another, or that (since it is laid down that the Beings of whom we are treating, though They do not dwell apart, retain their separate existence and condition) these Beings can reciprocally contain One Another, so that One should permanently
Volume 9a, Page 62
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