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  • So are carried the vibrations, and so the light of earth and heaven reflected back and forward — apaugasma, a wonderful though helpless engine, the ladder of Jacob, and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Herein he is apaugasma tēs doxēs, the effulgency, the resplendency of divine glory, that wherein the divine glory shines forth in an evident manifestation of itself unto us.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Doubtless the word had behind it, in the thought of both Milton and Wesley, the apaugasma of the Apostolic writer in

    The Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations 1913

  • He was himself the "Light of the Solar Disk," an _apaugasma_, or "Light proceeding from Light;" it behoved him to imitate the Sun-god, and perpetually bestow his gifts on men, but it behoved them to veil their faces from his radiance and receive his bounty prostrate in the dust beneath him.

    Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857

  • So are carried the vibrations, and so the light of earth and heaven reflected back and forward -- apaugasma, a wonderful though helpless engine, the ladder of Jacob, and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

    Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • By how much the more clearly the author of the Christian religion, not without the help of Deity, exhibited to men the idea of reason imbued with true religion, so as to represent as it were an _apaugasma_ of the divine reason, or the divine spirit, by so much the more diligently ought man to strive to approach as nearly as possible to form that archetype in the mind, and to study to imitate it in life and manners to the utmost of his ability.

    History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868

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