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  wherever the Word found historical events capable of adaptation to these mystic truths, He made use of them, but concealed the deeper sense from the many; but where in setting forth the sequences of things spiritual there was no actual event related for the sake of the more mystic meaning, Scripture interweaves the imaginative with the historical, sometimes introducing what is utterly impossible, sometimes what is possible but never occurred ... And not only did the Spirit thus deal with the Scriptures before the coming of Christ, but, inasmuch as He is the same Spirit, and proceedeth from the One God, He has done the same with the Gospels and the writings of the Apostles; for not even they are purely historical, incidents which never occurred being interwoven in the “corporeal” sense ...

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  • Your missing quotes and this is needlessly pedanticeryx
  • < Next time, think for yourself. Copy and pasting incoherent old Greek fuckers is senseless.Morning_star
  • Tldr; "the 'spirit' is a lying cunt"scarabin
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  • mommy issuessonnde

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