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How about “Photinus” the genus of one spscies of firefly?
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But somewhat later, I confess, did I learn how in that saying, The Word was made flesh, the Catholic truth is distinguished from the falsehood of Photinus.
The Confessions 1999
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That proud beast, Paulus Samosatenus, [6] whose flagitious life contended for a pre-eminence in wickedness with his prodigious heresies, was one of the first, after the Jews, that positively contended for his being a man, and no more; who was followed by Photinus and others.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965
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For myself, I must confess that it was even later that I learned how in the sentence, "The Word was made flesh," the Catholic truth can be distinguished from the falsehood of Photinus.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Reply Obj. 3: The mystery of the Incarnation is not to be looked upon as an ascent, as it were, of a man already existing and mounting up to the dignity of the Union: as the heretic Photinus maintained.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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It contains an enumeration of the heresies against the Incarnation, namely, of Cerinthus, Photinus, Apollinaris, and Nestorius, with a refutation of each, especially the last.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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For we do not hold that He was first of all a mere man, and that afterwards by the merits of a good life it was granted Him to become the Son of God, as Photinus held; but we hold that from the beginning of His conception this man was truly the Son of God, seeing that He had no other hypostasis but that of the Son of God, according to Luke
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Son of God, as Photinus said; or if the humanity were not assumed unto unity of the Person or hypostasis of the Word of God, as
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Photinus (d. 376) is apparently regarded as still alive; Julian is dead (363).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Firminius, present at the Council of Chalcedon, 451; Photinus, at the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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