Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mother of God: a title of the Virgin Mary. Also
Theotokos .
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According to this sense of the unconfused union, we confess the holy Virgin to be theotocos, because that
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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"According to this sense of an unconfused union, we confess the holy Virgin to be theotocos, because that God the Word was made flesh, and became man, and from that very conception united with himself the temple received from her."
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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The word is _theotocos_ [123], which the Latins were accustomed {323} to transfer into their works, substituting only
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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Nothing in our present inquiry turns upon the real {324} meaning of that word _theotocos_.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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