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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume XI: Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lérins, John Cassian. 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...

shall overshadow thee: therefore that which shall be born of thee shall be called holy, the Son of God.”1 FOR it was right that He who was in possession of the perfect image and likeness of God should be Himself tempted through those passions, through which Adam also was tempted while he still retained the image of God unbroken, that is, through gluttony, vainglory, pride; and not through those in which he was
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