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It is precisely in the same period that the term divinus enters into writings on music.
MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968
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[3787] Nunc si nos audis, atque es divinus Apollo,
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Brower rightly goes on to note that Latin writers make no sharp distinction between divinus and deus, which are similar to the use of the words 'human' and 'man' in English taking 'man' gender-neutrally.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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Brower rightly goes on to note that Latin writers make no sharp distinction between divinus and deus, which are similar to the use of the words 'human' and 'man' in English taking 'man' gender-neutrally.
Faith and Philosophy 2005
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The second article, "The Problem with Social Trinitarianism: A Reply to Wierenga," by Jeffrey Brower, protests that the Athanasian Creed uses 'deus' rather than 'divinus':
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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The second article, "The Problem with Social Trinitarianism: A Reply to Wierenga," by Jeffrey Brower, protests that the Athanasian Creed uses 'deus' rather than 'divinus':
Faith and Philosophy 2005
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'Sed neque te fas est præterire, _Fairfaxi_, in quo cum summa fortitudine summam modestiam, summam vitæ sanctitatem, & natura & divinus favor conjunxit: Tu harum in partem laudum evocandus tuo jure ac merito es; quanquam in illo nunc tuo secessu, quantus olim Literni
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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While he waits for the _afflatus divinus_, and consults the muses -- and in fact his eyes soon begin to betray _possession_ -- he passes his hand over his parturient forehead, while the _os magno sonaturum_ is getting ready; the labour-pains are evidently on him; he hurls back his hair, and fixes his eyes upon the moon, (who has been looking at _him_ for several minutes through the window opposite.)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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No sooner had our heroe retired with his Dido, but Speluncam Blifil dux et divinus eandem
X. Showing the Truth of Many Observations of Ovid, and of Other More Grave Writers. Book V 1917
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Ad hanc controversiam dirimendam unanimi consensu credimus, docemus, et confitemur, quod ceremoniae sive ritus Ecclesiastici {qui Verbo Dei neque praecepti sunt, neque prohibiti, sed tantum decori et ordinis causa instituti} non sint per se cultus divinus, aut aliqua saltem pars cultus divini.
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