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![“In company with all of these achievements, and yet after them all, God fulfilled for our sake the truly new mystery of his incarnation, a mystery for which and through which all these other things took place. Here again, [1345A] God innovated human nature in terms of its mode, not its principle…” quote by Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20f/maximus-the-confessor-7435_business_in-company-with-all-of-these-achievement_1585124.jpg)
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