| Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 632 sider
...most sagacious of the Christian theologians, the great Athanasius himself, has candidly confessed 14 that, whenever he forced his understanding to meditate...he wrote, the less capable was he of expressing his 18 If Theophilus, bishop of Antioch, was the first who employed the word Triad, Trinity, that abstract... | |
| Thomas William Doane - 1910 - 624 sider
...the Son, and of the Holy Ghost w <M one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal," — also confessed that whenever he forced his understanding to meditate...less he comprehended; and the more he wrote the less capabfo was he of expressing his thoughts. 1 We see, then, that this great question was settled, not... | |
| Henry Frank - 1911 - 454 sider
...311. Dictum of Salvation 143 Trinity, was constrained, in his moments of honest meditation, to declare that " whenever he forced his understanding to meditate...more he wrote the less capable was he of expressing himself." ' Nevertheless, without understanding what he wrote, incapable of intelligibly expressing... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 sider
...most sagacious of the Christian theologians, the great Athanasius himself, has candidly confessed," that whenever he forced his understanding to meditate...he wrote the less capable was he of expressing his thoughts.f In every step of the inquiry, we are compelled to feel and acknowledge the immeasurable... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1969 - 1278 sider
...the most sagacious of the Christian theologians, the great Athanasius himself, has candidly confessed that, whenever he forced his understanding to meditate...he of expressing his thoughts. In every step of the enquiry, we are compelled to feel and acknowledge the immeasurable disproportion between the size of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sider
...most sagacious of the Christian theologians, the great Athanasius* himself, has candidly confessed32 that, whenever he forced his understanding to meditate...he of expressing his thoughts. In every step of the enquiry, we are compelled to feel and acknowledge the immeasurable disproportion between the size of... | |
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