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- adjective Alternative form of
encyclopediacal .
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'This is my commandment, that ye love one another' All duties to our fellows, and all duties to our brethren, are summed up in, or resolved into, this one germinal, encyclopaediacal, all-comprehensive simplification of duty, into the one word 'love.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Alexander Maclaren 1868
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He desires hearts, and only they who have yielded themselves unto God, moved thereto by the mercies of God, and especially by the encyclopaediacal mercy which includes all the rest in its sweep, only they belong to
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868
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That little word 'grace' is like a small window that opens out on to a great landscape, for it gathers up into one encyclopaediacal expression the whole infinite variety of beneficences and bestowments which come showering down upon us.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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These things are all gathered into, and their various sparkles absorbed in, the one steady light of that one great encyclopaediacal word -- Salvation.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868
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