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(A) Christ as man came to be is, if taken reduplicatively, true, because it implies that the person (who is Christ) began to be man; if taken specificatively, false, because it implies that the person (who is Christ the man) began to be.
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(A) Christ as man came to be is, if taken reduplicatively, true, because it implies that the person (who is Christ) began to be man; if taken specificatively, false, because it implies that the person (who is Christ the man) began to be.
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Stilpo says in the old play of _Timon_, written about 1600, "The man in the moone is not in the moone superficially, although he bee in the moone (as the Greekes will have it) catapodially, specificatively, and quidditatively."
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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