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  • One of the terms, inanis, empty-minded, is related to the word used in the Latin of Aquinas's citation from I Corinthians: "If Christ did not rise, our preaching is empty (inanis), and our faith is empty (inanis)".

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • One of the terms, inanis, empty-minded, is related to the word used in the Latin of Aquinas's citation from I Corinthians: "If Christ did not rise, our preaching is empty (inanis), and our faith is empty (inanis)".

    Fools, Fools, and More Fools 2005

  • Verum illa è vulgi dementia nata opinio, vt stulta ac inanis, & in opprobrium nostræ gentis conficta, hactenus, vt spero, satis labefactata est.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Verum illa � vulgi dementia nata opinio, vt stulta ac inanis, & in opprobrium nostr� gentis conficta, hactenus, vt spero, satis labefactata est.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Terra autem erat informis et inanis, tenebraeque erant in superficie voraginis: et Spiritus Dei agitabat se in superficie aquarum.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • -- Ed. [44] The words T+H+W+ W+B+H+W+ are rendered in Calvin's text informis et inanis, "shapeless and empty."

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Terra autem erat informis et inanis; tenebraeque erant in superficie voraginis, et Spiritus Dei agitabat se in superficie aquarum.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Terra autem erat desolate et inanis, tenebraeque erant in superficie voraginis: et Spiritus Dei agitabat sese in superficie aquarum.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • The names he has been given suggest, in their etymological undertones, the various charac - teristics that have been attributed to the fool: that he is empty-headed (μάταιος, inanis, fool), dull-witted

    WISDOM OF THE FOOL WALTER KAISER 1968

  • * [2143] Propter incertitudinem propriæ justitiæ, et periculum inanis gloriæ, tutissimum est fiduciam totam in solâ misericordiâ Dei et benignitate reponere

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

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