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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

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