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  • August 24, 2008 at 2:34 am mii ish horme! ebriwan ish spweakin bwed inkgrish! hwahwa!

    Diesel lion - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • * Hopou an he horme tou euthunontos bouletai;: [4886] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The words rendered by us, "Turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth," are in the original, Hopou an he horme tou euthunontos bouletai; in which the act of willing is ascribed to the horme, the impetus or inclination of the governor, which yet hath not a will.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But the horme in that place is not the prote kinesis of the philosophers, the motus primo-primus, or the first agitation or inclination of the mind; but it is the will itself under an earnest inclination, such as is usual with them who govern ships by the helms in storms.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Spiritus Sancti, i. 4, where we have the statement houto kai to hagion Pneuma hosper horme kai kinesis, endotera tes huperphuous ekeines ousias, so the Holy Spirit is like an impulse and movement within that supernatural essence.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • See ch. 15 of this Book, where we have the sentence, oudemia gar horme aneu pneumatos.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • Then one is impelled to action, and this is called impulse (horme): and thereafter it is brought into employment, and this is called use (chresis).

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • * houto kai to hagion Pneuma hosper horme kai kinesis, endotera tes huperphuous ekeines ousias: [1999] 1

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • * eph 'hemin men hupolepsis, horme, orexis, ekklisis, kai heni logo hosa hemetera erga: [1770] 1

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • [1427] cf. Epictetus, Ench.i. eph 'hemin men hupolepsis, horme, orexis, ekklisis, kai heni logo hosa hemetera erga.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

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