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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Gen. 19:11). [*It is worth noting that these are the only two passages in the Greek version where the word _aorasia_ appears. It expresses, in fact, the effect produced on the people of Sodom--namely, dazzling (French version," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "), which...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He that is less in action, shall receive wisdom" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which is the greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at table?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Behold I will send My angels who shall go before thee." }, { "from": "human", "value": "in such a manner as not to be" } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even we ourselves as mentally tasting something eternal, are not in this world." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Esteeming others better than themselves." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All are ministering spirits, sent to minister" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thousands of thousands ministered to Him" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seraph, that is," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in an equivocal sense, because he came to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So the angels are sent, and assist; for, though the angelic spirit is limited, yet the supreme Spirit, God, is not limited." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven who stand before the Lord" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dominations are above all subjection." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "does not signify any such administration, but only disposition and command in administering. On the other hand, the names of the inferior orders imply administration, for the" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "not in a multiple but in a partitive sense, to mean" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; thus the number of those who minister is indefinite, and signifies excess; while the number of assistants is finite as in the words added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "are taken by way of multiplication, to signify" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And because ten times a hundred is a thousand, if it were said" }, { "from": "human", "value": "it would mean that there are as many assistants as ministers: but since it is wri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep this man; and if he shall slip away, thy life shall be for his life" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He hath given His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Their angels in heaven, etc. (Matt. 8:10), Jerome says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Great is the dignity of souls, for each one to have an angel deputed to guard it from its birth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Powers to coerce the demons, the" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and diversified their ways: some of them hath He blessed and exalted, and some of them hath He cursed and brought low." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Their angels in heaven," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; for it seems to be the least of the angelic offices to procure what concerns the salvation of only one man. The other kind of guardianship is universal, multiplied according to the different orders. For the more universal an agent is, the higher it is. Thus the guardianship of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Augustine says (Enarr. ii in Ps. 31). Moreover, the coming of Antichrist will be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her. And (Isa. 5:5) it is written:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will take away the hedge --that is," }, { "from": "human", "value": "[gloss]--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The angels of peace shall weep bitterly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatsoever first-fruits they offer, etc. the gloss of Origen says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The angels are brought to judgment as to whether men have fallen through their negligence or through their own fault." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Death ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who maketh peace in His high places." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The prince of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me one and twenty days." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against Principalities and Powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fear not, for there are more with us than with them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God tempted Abraham." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you : to which the gloss adds," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 4) that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are of your father the devil." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not all our evil thoughts are stirred up by the devil, but sometimes they arise from the movement of our free-will." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot believe that the human body can receive the limbs of a beast by means of a demon's art or power." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Often by m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man's imagination, which whether thinking or dreaming, takes the forms of an innumerable number of things, appears to other men's senses, as it were embodied in the semblance of some animal." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When magicians do what holy men do, they do it for a different end and by a different right. The former do it for their own glory; the latter, for the glory of God: the former, by certain private compacts; the latter by the evident assistance and command of God, to Whom every cr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then the devil left Him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All temptation being ended, the devil departed from Him for a time. There are two reasons for this. One is on the part of God's clemency; for as Chrysostom says (Super Matt. Hom. v) [*In the Opus Imperfectum, am...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are things that are acted upon, but do not act; such are bodies: there is one Who acts but is not acted upon; this is God: there are things that both act and are acted upon; these are the spiritual substances." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which he considered to be the first contraries, by others considered to the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a mover who is not moved, to wit, the first maker of all; therefore, on the other hand, there exists something moved which is purely passive," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of all the things which are generated in a corporeal and visible fashion, certain seeds lie hidden in the corporeal things of this world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "has been transferred from living things to all natural things. For the word itself," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nevertheless, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "can be called" }, { "from": "human", "value": "but not, strictly speaking," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We say that they --namely, the heavenly bodies--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing is more corporeal than sex." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bodies of a grosser and inferior nature are ruled in a certain order by those of a more subtle and powerful nature. And Dionysius (Div. Nom. iv) says that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "namely, the moon; as Jerome (In Matt. iv, 24) and Chrysostom (Hom. lvii in Matt.) say. Secondly, because as they are unable to effect anything save by means of the natural forces, as stated above (Q. 114, A. 4, ad 2) they take into account the aptitude of bodies for the intended...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not incongruous that many of the signs observed in bodies, of occurrences in the heavens, such as rain and wind, should not be fulfilled." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "has a cause, likewise (that a man is)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "has not a cause, but (that a being is)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Far be it from the hearts of the faithful to think that fate is anything real." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; as though things were said to happen by fate, which are" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fate is a disposition inherent to changeable things, by which Providence connects each one with its proper order." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The digger of a grave found a treasure." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "we can admit the existence of fate: although the holy doctors avoided the use of this word, on account of those who twisted its application to a certain force in the position of the stars. Hence Augustine says (De Civ. Dei v, 1):" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If any...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fate is a disposition inherent to changeable things." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fate is worked out when Divine Providence is served by certain spirits; whether by the soul, or by all nature itself which obeys Him, whether by the heavenly movements of the stars, w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "has not the nature of fate, except as dependent on God. Wherefore the Divine power or will can be called fate, as being the cause of fate. But essentially fate is the very disposition or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thy fate draws thee." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As reasoning is to the intellect, as the begotten is to that which is, as time to eternity, as the circle to its centre; so is the fickle chain of fate to the unwavering simplicity of Providence." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If God foreknew that this would happen, it will happen. Wherefore Boethius, having said that the chain of fate is fickle, shortly afterwards adds--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The chain of fate moves the heaven and the stars, tempers the elements to one another, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hence it is clear that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be not you called Rabbi : on which the gloss of Jerome says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lest you give to men the honor due to God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle . . . a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All teaching and all learning proceed from previous knowledge." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who healeth all thy diseases (Ps. 102:3); so of Him is it written:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He that teacheth man knowledge (Ps. 93:10), inasmuch as" } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places through the Church." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Last of all, in these days (God) hath spoken to us by His Son." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There hath not risen among them that are born of woman a greater than John the Baptist; yet he that is lesser in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace . . . to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God. Hidden, yet so that the multiform wisdom of God was made known to the principalities and pow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saints work miracles sometimes by prayer, sometimes by their power: thus Peter, by prayer, raised the dead Tabitha to life, and by his reproof delivered to death the lying Ananias and Saphira." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who hath bewitched you, that you should not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Corporeal matter obeys God alone at will." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those who are sons of God, in power, as John says--what wonder is there that they should work miracles by that power?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let the waters bring forth the creeping creatures having life." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All the souls that came out of [Jacob's] thigh, sixty-six." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It follows that the intellect alone comes from without." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God rested Him from all His work which He had done." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God ended all" }, { "from": "human", "value": "His work." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Father worketh until now" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God made not death . . . but the wicked with works and words have called it to them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; and says that the latter" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bodily food when corrupted, that is, having lost its form, is changed into the texture of the members." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The relation of a thing to truth is the same as its relation to being." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All things were created together as to the substance of matter, but not as to the specific form. Consequently the multiplication of the human body can only be the result of the food being changed into the true human nature. Fourthly, because, since man does not differ from anima...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Food nourishes inasmuch as it is potentially flesh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of what enters into the mouth, but" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--for instance, wood or stone--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is said to comprise whatever the virtue of the species is founded on. If this be taken away it cannot be renewed; as when a man's hand or foot is amputated. But the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "not according to the seminal virtue. Because the matter from which His Body was formed, and which was supplied by the Virgin Mother, was derived from Adam; whereas the active virtue was not derived from Adam, because His Body was not formed by the seminal virtue of a man, but by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Twenty-three, mama, ain't a boy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mama's own girl that minds." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What revenge does your heart desire?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hair-breadth Escapes, &c." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Household Stories." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hair-breadth Escapes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bonnie Lesley." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Jerningham's Journal." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rural Tales," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BUNCHY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our White Violet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bunchy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those Unlucky Twins!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poetry for the Young." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DER KLEINE ABC SCHÜTZE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An Epitome of Anglican Church History." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Genevieve's Story." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gerty and May," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "St. Olave's." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "St. Olaves." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gerty & May." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "William Tell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our White Violet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gerty and May." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our White Violet." } ]