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• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he…
• Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your…
• Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
• If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,…
• Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment…
• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
• [Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,…
• In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet…
• Patience is God's nature.
• I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
• When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,…
• [T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in…

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