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  • If it is legitimate to go back, with a pious reflection, to the "ipsissima vox," to the exact word that came from Mary's mouth -- or at least to the word that would be found at this point in the Judaic source that Luke used -- this must have been the word "amen."

    Archive 2008-12-14 papabear 2008

  • If it is legitimate to go back, with a pious reflection, to the "ipsissima vox," to the exact word that came from Mary's mouth -- or at least to the word that would be found at this point in the Judaic source that Luke used -- this must have been the word "amen."

    Zenit: Father Cantalamessa's 3rd Advent Meditation papabear 2008

  • I'm especially interested in whether you're more inclined to regard it as the ipsissima verba of the Prince of the Heavenly Host, or just an expository interpretation.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Mike L 2006

  • I'm especially interested in whether you're more inclined to regard it as the ipsissima verba of the Prince of the Heavenly Host, or just an expository interpretation.

    Near-death experience and prophecy Mike L 2006

  • In the following narrative, I have endeavoured to give as nearly as possible the ipsissima verba of the valued friend from whom I received it, conscious that any aberration from HER mode of telling the tale of her own life would at once impair its accuracy and its effect.

    The Purcell Papers 2003

  • The historicity of the preaching by Jesus on divorce is accepted by almost all scholars, though few go so far as to assert that in these sayings we have the ipsissima verba — the "very words themselves" — employed by Jesus.

    Who Do Men Say That I Am? 1986

  • The historicity of the preaching by Jesus on divorce is accepted by almost all scholars, though few go so far as to assert that in these sayings we have the ipsissima verba — the "very words themselves" — employed by Jesus.

    Who Do Men Say That I Am? 1986

  • Green ends up granting that Herodotos 'oracles may not be the Pythia's ipsissima verba, though he starts by accepting them as quoted.

    An Exchange on the Oracle Fontenrose, Joseph 1979

  • There is no reference given to book or chapter; and, judging from the manner in which the aphorisms of Thucydides and Tacitus (which I have been able to examine) are quoted, I fear it may be found that the words in question are rather a condensation of some paragraph by Des Comines that the _ipsissima verba_ that he employed.

    Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

  • St. Catherine's head chant epiphany the first coming ipsissima verba

    Fountain Street Jazno Francoeur

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