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- proper noun Abbreviation of
Ephesians .
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For it is written, No man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth it and cherisheth it Ephes. v.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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Thirdly, He promised that the body enshrining this deposit should never be vitiated by error — "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt., xvi, 18; cf. Ephes., v, 27).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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(Polyc., c. v); the religious character of matrimony (Polyc., c. v); the value of united prayer (Ephes., c. xiii); the primacy of the See of Rome (Rom., introd.).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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That is undoubtedly the case when both parties to marriage are by baptism members of the mystical body of Christ, for "This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church" (Ephes., v, 32).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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By the omission of a single preposition Marcion had coined a text in favor of his doctrine out of Ephes., iii, 10:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Aramaic language; moreover, Ephes., iv, 8, has a closer connection with the Targum to Ps., lxvii, 19, than with the Masoretic text.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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[140] We may refer here to Ignat., ad Ephes., xi.: hina eni klērō Ephesiōn heurethō tōn Christianōn, ohi kai tois apostolois pantote sunēnesan (v. 1, sunēsan) en dunamei Iēsou christou (“That I may be found in the company of those Ephesian Christians who moreover were ever of one mind with the apostles in the power of Jesus Christ”).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Epist. ad Ephes., hom. 4, &c. [1671] Text, edoresato.
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Ephes., p. 1, cap. ii], answers it thus: "Just as when a man's soul is born with its body, they are considered as one being: and if anyone wish to say that the mother of the flesh is not the mother of the soul, he says too much.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Ephes., p. 1, cap. viii]: "We do not say that the Son of God had need, for His own sake, of a second nativity, after that which is from the Father: for it is foolish and a mark of ignorance to say that He who is from all eternity, and co-eternal with the Father, needs to begin again to exist.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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