nearly any theological work on the Trinity written from Irenaeus in the second century to John Owen in the seventeenth. But the prayer of Hilary of Poitiers at the conclusion of book 1 of On the Trinity is especially apt: Therefore we wait for you to set in motion these timid first steps of our undertaking, to confirm it so that it may make progress, and to call us into fellowship with the Spirit who guided the prophets and apostles, so that we may apprehend their words in no other sense than that
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