The Catechetical Lectures of S Cyril |
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Author:
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ISBN: | 978-0-217-61951-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.07 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE VII. ON GOD, THE FATHER. Eph. iii. 14, 15. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family of heaven and earth is named. 1. Of God as the One Principle of all things I said enough r.j ? yesterday; enough, I mean, not in respect to the subject, (for''...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE VII. ON GOD, THE FATHER. Eph. iii. 14, 15. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family of heaven and earth is named. 1. Of God as the One Principle of all things I said enough r.j ? yesterday; enough, I mean, not in respect to the subject, (for'' mortal nature cannot reach this, ) but in the measure of our of the weakness; and I trod the bye paths which have been variously God7 struck out by profane heretics: now, shaking from us their foul and soul-destroying doctrine, and remembering it not to our hurt, but for their detestation, let us revert to ourselves, and receive the salutary articles of the true Faith, joining to the dignity of God's sole sovereignty, the attribute of Father, and believing in One God the Father. It is not enough to believe in One God: we must receive with reverence this also, that He is the Father of the Only-begotten, our Lord Jesus Christ. 2. For thus our view of religion will rise above the Jewish. (2.) For the Jews receive indeed the doctrine of the One God; (though they have often denied this toa by committing idolatry;) but they deny that He is also the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, differing from their own Prophets, who say in Holy Scripture, The Lord hath said unto Me, Thou art My Ps. 2,7. Son, this day haw I begotten Thee. Even to this day they rage and gather against the Lord and against His Christ, Ps. 2,1. thinking that the Father may be made their friend, apart2' from devotion towards the Son; knowing uot that no manJohnH, cometh to the Father, but by the Son, who saith, I am the6' door, and / am the way. He then who declines the Way 9. ' which leads to the Father, and denies the Door, how shall he JohnH, be vouchsafed entrance to God? They contradict too...