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- adjective being six more than eighty
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For in such cases the words of Ambrose apply, "Feed him that dies of hunger: if thou hast not fed him, thou hast slain him" [* Cf. Canon _Pasce, _ dist. lxxxvi, whence the words, as quoted, are taken].
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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(Hom. lxxxvi in Joan.): "This woman wanted to converse with Christ just as before the Passion, and out of joy was thinking of nothing great, although Christ's flesh had become much nobler by rising again."
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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(See Mr. Lang's note in his Introduction to the Waverley Novels, p. lxxxvi.)
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball
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Now it is less sinful to keep back another's property than to commit murder, of which a man is guilty if he fails to succor one who is in extreme need, as appears from the words of Ambrose who says (Cf. Canon _Pasce_ dist. lxxxvi, whence the words, as quoted, are taken):
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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But in the poetic books Sion becomes, by metaphor, a synonym for the Temple (Ps. lxxvii, 68), or for Jerusalem (Ps. cxxxii, 3; lxxxvi, 5).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Psalm lxxxvi, 2, does not seem to have much to support it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The Sons of Korah are named in the titles of eleven psalms = = xlii-xlix, lxxxiv, lxxxv, lxxxvii, lxxxviii (xli-xlviii, lxxxiii, lxxxiv, lxxxvi, lxxxvii).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Prædestinatus to have been an answer to Pope Soter (Hær., xxvi, lxxxvi), who had condemned or disapproved them; but the authority is not a good one.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In addition Theodoret was accused of Nestorianism (Epist. lxxxiii-lxxxvi); in answer to this attack he wrote his most important polemical work, called "Eranistes".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Cassiodorus (c. 570), when commenting on Ps. lxxxvi, speaks of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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