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... gain over the women and children in families . " Thus the gospel in that age , as in later times , when its light has shone forth afresh after being obscured by human inventions , found the readiest entranc among the working classes ...
... gain over the women and children in families . " Thus the gospel in that age , as in later times , when its light has shone forth afresh after being obscured by human inventions , found the readiest entranc among the working classes ...
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... gain a satisfactory certainty of religious con- viction , which the decaying popular faith could not impart . On this account they applied to the most prevalent philo- sophical systems of antiquity which appeared most nearly allied to ...
... gain a satisfactory certainty of religious con- viction , which the decaying popular faith could not impart . On this account they applied to the most prevalent philo- sophical systems of antiquity which appeared most nearly allied to ...
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... gain nothing fixed , and yet I could not free my- self from their speculations , although I wished , as I said before ; for though I often imposed silence on myself , yet I knew not how it came to pass that such thoughts again found ...
... gain nothing fixed , and yet I could not free my- self from their speculations , although I wished , as I said before ; for though I often imposed silence on myself , yet I knew not how it came to pass that such thoughts again found ...
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... gain was a greater object than the proper discharge of their office , offered for a certain sum of money to grant individual Chris- tians a certificate ( libellum ) that they had performed the heathen religious ceremonies according to ...
... gain was a greater object than the proper discharge of their office , offered for a certain sum of money to grant individual Chris- tians a certificate ( libellum ) that they had performed the heathen religious ceremonies according to ...
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... gains of their manual labour . The persons , who from their striving to form themselves to Christian virtue , were called Ascetics ( dokηTái ) , or , by a metaphor taken from military affairs , Christian combatants ( aywvIOTIKOI ) , or ...
... gains of their manual labour . The persons , who from their striving to form themselves to Christian virtue , were called Ascetics ( dokηTái ) , or , by a metaphor taken from military affairs , Christian combatants ( aywvIOTIKOI ) , or ...
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