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_ Primi principi di una teoria sociologica della popolazione economicamente passiva.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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After that emperor's conversion they became more prominent, especially after the law of the year 321 allowed churches to receive all kinds of legacies, and granted them the "factio testamenti passiva", i.e. the right of being made heirs (Theodosian Code, XVI, II, lit. iv).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Allen wrote a treatise on the pallium, "Epistola de pallii significatione activa et passiva" on the occasion of his reception of this pontifical symbol, and another "De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tutoriis causis observandis."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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An Abbot who presides only over such persons, ecclesiastical and lay, as are attached to his monastery, belongs to the lowest grade, and his jurisdiction carries with it what is called the simple passive exemption (exemptio passiva) from the authority of the diocesan bishop.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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There were differences among them respecting the two kinds of obedience; some regarding the ‘obedientia passiva’ as the cause or condition of the ‘obedientia activa’. while others laid no stress on the distinction.
Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 1817-1893 1906
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Apart from the three personal properties of '_paternitas, filiatio, and spiratio passiva_' the three divine persons are absolutely identical in their being and operation.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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The first was termed in the language of that age, the ‘obedientia passiva,’ the second, the ‘obedientia activa.’
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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There were differences among them respecting the two kinds of obedience; some regarding the ‘obedientia passiva’ as the cause or condition of the ‘obedientia activa,’ while others laid no stress on the distinction.
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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[199] The Schoolmen of the 13th century rightly distinguished the potentia activa from the potentia passiva, in regard to the relation of the supernatural to the natural.
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870
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This is not activa contritio or manufactured repentance, but passiva contritio [torture of conscience], true sorrow of heart, suffering and sensation of death.
The Smalcald Articles Martin Luther 1514
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