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+ The collection of Cardinal Gregory, called by him "Polycarpus", in eight books, written before 1120, yet unedited.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Marcion meeting Polycarpus, and asking him whether he knew him, or acknowledged him, his answer was, "Yea, to be the first-born of the devil," Euseb., lib.iv. cap.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Polycarpus: — Hoti oute ton Christon pote kataleipein dunēsometha ton huper tēs tou kosmou tōn sōzōmenōn sōtērias pathonta, oute heteron timē sebein. —
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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And with more words, cap.xxiv. sect. 1, he would make us believe that these epistles of Ignatius were always of the same esteem with that of Clemens from Rome to the Corinthians, of which he treats at large in his fourth dissertation, or that of Polycarpus to the
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The style of these epistles doth not a little weaken the credit of them, being turgent, swelling with uncouth words and phrases, affected manner and ways of expression, new compositions of words, multiplying titles of honour to men, — exceedingly remote and distant from the plainness and simplicity of the first writers among the Christians, as is evident by comparing these with the epistle of Clemens before mentioned, that of Polycarpus in
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Compostella, of whose name only the initial "D." is given; in all probability he is Didacus, archbishop of that see from 1101 to 1120, which is therefore the approximate date of the "Polycarpus".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Fournier believes it the source of the collection of Anselm of Lucca, of the "Tarraconensis" and the "Polycarpus" (see below), also of other collections specified by him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Nicostratus husband of this woman, and the father and mother, and all the friends of Marcellianus and Marcus received the christian faith and were all baptized by Polycarpus the priest unto the number of seventy-eight persons, men, women, and children.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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This renders _Polycarpus_ graceful in Mirth, important in
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Noster Polycarpus, [122] qui super quaestione Paschatis Romam adiit, cuius ambustas reliquias
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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