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  • Ratio mandato tertio subnexa est, quod licet hujus praecepti violatores ab hominibus quandoque nil supplicii ferant, nihilominus tamen Dominus Deus noster eos justum ejus judicium neutiquam patietur subterfugere.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Ratio mandato tertio subnexa est, quod licet hujus praecepti violatores ab hominibus quandoque nil supplicii ferant, nihilominus tamen Dominus Deus noster eos justum ejus judicium neutiquam patietur subterfugere.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • He suggests that the approval of their allegorising interpretations by St. Thomas Aquinas, merely arose out of St. Thomas's modesty, and his desire not to seem openly to controvert St. Augustin -- "voluisse Divus Thomas pro sua modestia subterfugere vim argumenti potius quam aperte Augustinum inconstantiæ arguere."

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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