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  • In sympathy He adapts himself to each, as if He had not merely taken on Him man's nature in general, but also the peculiar nature of that single individual. but -- "nay, rather, He was (one) tempted" [Alford]. like as we are -- Greek, "according to (our) similitude." without sin -- Greek, "choris," "separate from sin" (Heb 7: 26).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The argument of the Phaedo begins from Plato's assertion that the soul seeks freedom from the body so that it may best grasp truth, because the body hinders and distracts it: the soul comes to be separate (choris) from the body, itself by itself ((aute kath auten) (64c5-8)).

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • Hinc deinde reuertentes, cum choris, et resonantia Musicorum, filius paratum praestat omnibus conuiuium, in cuius fine pro extremo ferculo, tradit singulis particulam, de patris capite summa cum devotione.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Hinc deinde reuertentes, cum choris, et resonantia Musicorum, filius paratum praestat omnibus conuiuium, in cuius fine pro extremo ferculo, tradit singulis particulam, de patris capite summa cum devotione.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • So our Saviour tells his apostles when they were sanctified believers, and in them all that are so, "Without me ye can do nothing," John xv. 5; -- choris emou, so "without me;" seorsim a me, so "separated from me," as a branch may be from the vine.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Houto toinun he psuge hean boulethe choris pneumatos blepein, kai empodon heaute ginetai: [4763] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Kai gar hoi ophthalmoi kaloi kai chresimoi, all 'ean boulontai choris photos horan, ouden autous to kallos oninesin, oude he oikeia ischus, alla kai parablapei.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Houto toinun he psuge hean boulethe choris pneumatos blepein, kai empodon heaute ginetai, Chrysost. in 1 Cor. ii.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Kai gar hoi ophthalmoi kaloi kai chresimoi, all 'ean boulontai choris photos horan, ouden autous to kallos oninesin, oude he oikeia ischus, alla kai parablapei.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • It is a world apart (choris), separate from the world of fleeting phenomena revealed to the senses.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

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