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Interpreting the Concept of Concupiscence ............................................................... 109 Gospel Values and Duties of the Human Heart ......................................................... 112 Realization of the Value of the Body According to the Plan of the Creator............ 114 Power of Redeeming Completes Power of Creating.................................................. 117 Eros and Ethos Meet and Bear Fruit in the Human Heart....................................... 120 Spontaneity: The Mature Result of Conscience......................................................... 122 Christ Calls Us to Rediscover the Living Forms of the New Man............................ 125 Purity of Heart .............................................................................................................. 128 Justification in Christ ................................................................................................... 130 Opposition Between the Flesh and the Spirit ............................................................. 133 Life in the Spirit Based on True Freedom.................................................................. 135 St. Paul's Teaching on the Sanctity and Respect of the Human Body..................... 138 St. Paul's Description of the Body and Teaching on Purity...................................... 140 The Virtue of Purity Is the Expression and Fruit of Life According to the Spirit . 143 The Pauline Doctrine of Purity as Life According to the Spirit ............................... 145 Positive Function of Purity of Heart ........................................................................... 148 Pronouncements of Magisterium Apply Christ's Words Today .............................. 151 The Human Body, Subject of Works of Art............................................................... 154 Reflections on the Ethos of the Human Body in Works of Artistic Culture ........... 156 Art Must Not Violate the Right to Privacy................................................................. 159 Ethical Responsibilities in Art ..................................................................................... 161 Marriage and Celibacy in the Light of the Resurrection of the Body...................... 164 The Living God Continually Renews the Very Reality of Life................................. 166 The Resurrection and Theological Anthropology...................................................... 169 The Resurrection Perfects the Person......................................................................... 172 Christ's Words on the Resurrection Complete the Revelation of the Body ............ 174 New Threshold of Complete Truth About Man......................................................... 177 Doctrine of the Resurrection according to St. Paul ................................................... 180 The Risen Body Will Be Incorruptible, Glorious, Full of Dynamism, and Spiritual ......................................................................................................................................... 183 Body's Spiritualization Will Be Source of Its Power and Incorruptibility.............. 185 Virginity or Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom................................................... 188 The Vocation to Continence in This Earthly Life...................................................... 190 Continence for the Sake of the Kingdom Meant to Have Spiritual Fulfillment ..... 193 The Effective and Privileged Way of Continence ...................................................... 195 The Superiority of Continence Does Not Devalue Marriage .................................... 197 Marriage and Continence Complement Each Other................................................. 200 The Value of Continence Is Found in Love ................................................................ 202 Celibacy Is a Particular Response to the Love of the Divine Spouse ....................... 205 Celibacy for the Kingdom Affirms Marriage............................................................. 208 Voluntary Continence Derives From a Counsel, Not From a Command................ 210 The Unmarried Person Is Anxious to Please the Lord.............................................. 212 Everyone Has His Own Gift from God, Suited to His Vocation............................... 215 The Kingdom of God, Not the World, Is Man's Eternal Destiny............................. 217 Mystery of the Body's Redemption Basis of Teaching on Marriage and Voluntary Continence ..................................................................................................................... 220 4
Marital Love Reflects God's Love for His People...................................................... 223 The Call to Be Imitators of God and to Walk in Love .............................................. 226 Reverence for Christ the Basis of Relationship Between Spouses............................ 228 A Deeper Understanding of the Church and Marriage ............................................ 230 St Paul's Analogy of Union of Head and Body Does Not Destroy Individuality of the Person............................................................................................................................. 233 Sacredness of Human Body and Marriage................................................................. 236 Christ's Redemptive Love Has Spousal Nature ......................................................... 239 Moral Aspects of the Christian's Vocation................................................................. 241 The Relationship of Christ to the Church Connected With the Tradition of the Prophets ......................................................................................................................... 243 Analogy of Spousal Love Indicates the Radical Character of Grace....................... 247 Marriage Is the Central Point of the Sacrament of Creation ................................... 250 Loss of Original Sacrament Restored with Redemption in Marriage-Sacrament . 252 Marriage an Integral Part of New Sacramental Economy ....................................... 255 Indissolubility of Sacrament of Marriage in Mystery of the Redemption of the Body ......................................................................................................................................... 257 Christ Opened Marriage to the Saving Action of God.............................................. 259 Marriage Sacrament an Effective Sign of God's Saving Power ............................... 262 The Redemptive and Spousal Dimensions of Love .................................................... 265 Language of the Body, the Substratum and Content of the Sacramental Sign of Spousal Communion..................................................................................................... 268 The Language of the Body in the Structure of Marriage.......................................... 270 The Sacramental Covenant in the Dimension of Sign ............................................... 273 Language of the Body Strengthens the Marriage Covenant..................................... 276 Man Called to Overcome Concupiscence ................................................................... 277 Return to the Subject of Human Love in the Divine Plan......................................... 280 Truth and Freedom the Foundation of True Love .................................................... 282 Love Is Ever Seeking and Never Satisfied .................................................................. 284 Love Is Victorious in the Struggle Between Good and Evil...................................... 287 The Language of the Body: Actions and Duties Forming the Spirituality of Marriage ......................................................................................................................................... 289 Morality of Marriage Act Determined by Nature of the Act and of the Subjects .. 291 The Norm of Humanae Vitae Arises from the Natural Law and the Revealed Order ......................................................................................................................................... 293 Importance of Harmonizing Human Love with Respect for Life ............................ 295 Responsible Parenthood ............................................................................................... 297 Faithfulness to the Divine Plan in the Transmission of Life ..................................... 299 Church's Position on Transmission of Life ................................................................ 301 A Discipline That Ennobles Human Love .................................................................. 303 Responsible Parenthood Linked to Moral Maturity ................................................. 306 Prayer, Penance and the Eucharist Are Principal Sources of Spirituality for Married Couples ........................................................................................................... 308 The Power of Love Is Given to Man and Woman as a Share in God's Love .......... 310 Continence Protects the Dignity of the Conjugal Act................................................ 312 Continence Frees One from Inner Tension ................................................................ 315 5
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Page 3: CONTENTS The Unity and Indissolubil
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Page 9 and 10: and Mark 10, constitute a passage w
Page 11 and 12: the first chapter of Genesis. Today
Page 13 and 14: When Christ referred to the "beginn
Page 15 and 16: It seems that the words of Romans 8
Page 17 and 18: Nevertheless, the fact of not being
Page 19 and 20: At the beginning of the Yahwist tex
Page 21 and 22: y the Creator, together with the tr
Page 23 and 24: dimension of man's subconscious. If
Page 25 and 26: In the first chapter, the narrative
Page 27 and 28: man. "' In the light of this text,
Page 29 and 30: made hitherto of the meaning of the
Page 31 and 32: know that they were naked," or that
Page 33 and 34: human experience. At the same time
Page 35 and 36: saw what he had made, and behold, i
Page 37 and 38: There is a deep connection between
Page 39 and 40: man is the only creature in the vis
Page 41 and 42: happiness. This nuptial meaning is
Page 43 and 44: He tries to understand original inn
Page 45 and 46: soul, femininity and masculinity, w
Page 47 and 48: Undertaking the analysis of the beg
Page 49 and 50: meaning of their bodies, in which t
Page 51 and 52: This authorizes us to pass, after t
Page 53 and 54: According to Genesis 4:1, the man "
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parent - there is reproduced every
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The sentence: "Adam knew his wife,
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that there is no way of constructin
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Christ Appeals to Man's Heart 24 1.
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Interior justice 4. In addition to
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dimension of humanity with which th
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2. The lust of the flesh and, toget
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Real Significance of Original Naked
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The words of Genesis 3:10, "I was a
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same way, with equal simplicity and
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Having facilitated an extraordinary
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turns to the woman and speaks first
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contain an adequate clarification a
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Linked with Sermon on the Mount 6.
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the lust of the body in particular
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and in other biblical texts. 45 In
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man, who has become the man of lust
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2. Those who follow the history of
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ight of cohabitation with the slave
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analogy also helps to understand th
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choice is outlined in the following
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committed in the body, in what sens
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6. For such transformation it is ne
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4. Christ, therefore, does not desc
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even though Matthew's words in 5:27
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3. Only then—that is from that su
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the prohibition, "Do not covet your
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derived from the failure to observe
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consider in what way the commandmen
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3. It is possible to answer the afo
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the body contained in Christ's teac
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sufficiently appreciated. As we kno
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the basis of this mystery, which St
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Connotation of the term "eros" 2. A
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Mount, with which he referred to th
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Christ Calls Us to Rediscover the L
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that is, the mysterious reality of
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Purity in the moral sense 3. In rel
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What the Spirit wants 2. This man l
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Without penetrating the structures
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To set us free 5. To complete the p
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linked with life according to the S
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at the same time, the control of on
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Not "scientific" 3. The Pauline des
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We have no doubt that the descripti
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One with the Lord 5. In chapter six
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following prayer to obtain purity i
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previous analyses, which gradually
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The words spoken by Christ in the S
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pronouncements of the Church aim at
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creative activity, a work of art, a
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giving of one party meets the appro
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are inscribed in this femininity an
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is, as a subject, uprooted from its
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time he communicates with the truth
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Gospels (cf. Mt 22:24-30; Mk 12:18-
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1. "You are wrong, because you know
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physical death has become man's lot
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keep their masculine or feminine pe
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eyond this possibility. It is there
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that more perfect communion—becau
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experience of the body on the basis
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eginning nor from what, in the hist
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3. Here we are on the same line as
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the presence of the mystery of rede
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5. All the antitheses that are sugg
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Just as one speaks of the resurrect
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kingdom of heaven. In saying this,
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voluntary, because those pertaining
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Continence for the Sake of the King
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them. It was hidden from them as it
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declared then that a man makes hims
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it in the full meaning of life and
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2. In this light a deeper clarifica
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Temporal establishment 2. The Kingd
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continence in the perspective of th
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eginning that obliges us to do this
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The form in which the call to conti
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elationship between marriage and ce
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modify it as well: "Now concerning
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world, to everything that is to be
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aware that by encouraging abstinenc
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oth the one and the other way of li
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fact was subjected to futility" (Ro
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duties and difficulties of human li
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of the Letter to the Ephesians, how
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summons to overcome vices and to ac
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Christ to be the adoptive sons of G
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This relationship is a revelation a
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edemption of the body conceals with
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word, that he might present the Chu
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the Bridegroom who "has loved the C
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Christ's Redemptive Love Has Spousa
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for her. By the same act he is unit
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of the Letter to the Ephesians (5:2
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motive of the "love of compassion."
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especially of Isaiah) remains prese
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5. The foregoing seems to be what c
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divine plans begin to be put into e
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the first covenant with the Creator
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sacrament of redemption by an indis
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the signs instituted by Christ and
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evealing of the sons of God" (Rom 8
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words which are being considered he
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specific remedy for concupiscence.
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love of Christ and of the Church—
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man in general, for the fundamental
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marriage is juridically contracted
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Ephesians (cf. Eph 5:21-33). The pr
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according to the prophets is not me
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Rereading the language of the body
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of constructing later—in a more a
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4. In this way, in the evangelical
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This discovery—already analyzed o
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2. The term "beloved" indicates wha
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Through this nearness the groom mor
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examine the theme of the language o
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The Language of the Body: Actions a
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Spirit") the mutual attraction of m
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Two significances 6. In this way, t
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stemming from biblical sources. The
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enhances man's dignity and confers
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speak exclusively of birth control.
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and clear the moral principles of a
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dimension—the dimension of the li
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The Encyclical emphasizes clearly e
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3. The use of the infertile periods
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premises that allow us to draw the
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that the mystery of the redemption
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The personal subject, in order to s
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protecting the importance and digni
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negative. But there is also another
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corporeal and emotive subjectivity.
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(or, to use the terminology of the
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This gift involves a profound and u
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time to search again for the answer
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On the subject of John's theology,
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36:25ff.). A similar attitude is re
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xii This formula returns in Ex 3:6;
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Only in the last century was attent
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