General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Volumen2

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H.G. Bohn, 1851
 

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Página 412 - The works of our Saviour were always conspicuous, for they were real; both those that were healed, and those that were raised from the dead ; who were seen not only when they were healed or raised, but for a long time afterwards: not only whilst he dwelled on this earth, but also after his departure, and for a good while after it, insomuch that some of them have reached to our times...
Página 11 - The life contained in them unfolds and individualizes itself more and more, but in such a way that the successive grades of this evolution of life continually sink lower and lower; the spirits become feebler, the further they are removed from the first link in the series.
Página 455 - ... Many fragmentary ideas, sketched with masterly power, and containing the germs of a thorough, systematic theological system, lie scattered in his works, amidst a profusion of vain and hollow speculations. As regards his Stromata, it was his express design in this work, as he testifies in many places, to bring together a chaotic assemblage of truth and error out of the Greek philosophers and the systems of the Christian sects, in connection with fragments of the true Gnosis. Each should...
Página 207 - Behold ! the man is as a lyre, and I sweep over him as a plectrum. The man sleeps, and I wake. Behold ! it is the Lord, who estranges the souls of men from themselves, and gives men souls.
Página 11 - Selflimitation is the first beginning of a communication of life on the part of God— the first passing of the hidden Deity into manifestation; and from this proceeds all further self-developing manifestation of the Divine Essence.
Página 209 - In the works of grace," he said, " as in the works of nature, which proceed from the same Creator, everything unfolds itself by certain successive steps. From the seed-corn shoots forth first the shoot, which by and bye grows into the tree ; this then puts forth the blossom, to be followed in its turn by the fruit, which itself arrives at maturity only by degrees.
Página 383 - Dei omnipotentis, alienavit nos contra naturam, suos proprios faciens discípulos, potens in omnibus Dei Verbum et non deficiens in sua justitia juste etiam adversus ipsam conversus est apostasiam, ea...

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