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• For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called…
• Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did…
• Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed…
• He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise…
• And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics]…
• [Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and…
• [Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,…
• He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and…
• It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles,…
• He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled…
• The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.
• The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

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