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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…
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your…
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,…
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment…
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,…
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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet…
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Patience is God's nature.
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I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
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When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,…
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[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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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
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This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to…
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I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who…
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Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone…
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And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at…
— Robert Grosseteste
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Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people…
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The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ...
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Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression…
— Robert Cray
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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?…
— Mark Twain
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Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of…
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