From: r{at}somis.org (òR L Measures)

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"Liam Too"  wrote:

> On Mar 29, 10:21 am, r...{at}somis.org (=B7R L Measures) wrote:
> > **  If everyone already knew, why announce such in 1545 ?
>
> There's nothing wrong with that. Even every year if it needs to. Here
> are some examples:
>
**  Hook, line, and sinker.
- end

> "He was the ark formed of incorruptible wood. For by this is signified
> that His tabernacle was exempt from putridity and corruption."
> Hippolytus, Orations Inillud, Dominus pascit me (ante A.D. 235).
>
> "This Virgin Mother of the Only-begotten of God, is called Mary,
> worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, one of the one." Origen,
> Homily 1(A.D. 244).
>
> "Let woman praise Her, the pure Mary." Ephraim, Hymns on the Nativity,
> 15:23 (A.D. 370).
>
> "Thou alone and thy Mother are in all things fair, there is no flaw in
> thee and no stain in thy Mother." Ephraem, Nisibene Hymns, 27:8 (A.D.
> 370).
>
> "O noble Virgin, truly you are greater than any other greatness. For
> who is your equal in greatness, O dwelling place of God the Word? To
> whom among all creatures shall I compare you, O Virgin? You are
> greater than them all O Covenant, clothed with purity instead of gold!
> You are the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the
> true manna, that is, the flesh in which divinity resides." Athanasius,
> Homily of the Papyrus of Turin, 71:216 (ante AD 373).
>
> "Mary, a Virgin not only undefiled but a Virgin whom grace has made
> inviolate, free of every stain of sin." Ambrose, Sermon 22:30 (A.D.
> 388).
>
> "We must except the Holy Virgin Mary, concerning whom I wish to raise
> no question when it touches the subject of sins, out of honour to the
> Lord; for from Him we know what abundance of grace for overcoming sin
> in every particular was conferred upon her who had the merit to
> conceive and bear Him who undoubtedly had no sin." Augustine, Nature
> and Grace,4 2[36] (A.D.415).
>
> "As he formed her without my stain of her own, so He proceeded from
> her contracting no stain." Proclus of Constantinople, Homily 1 (ante
> A=2ED. 446).
>
> "A virgin, innocent, spotless, free of all defect, untouched,
> unsullied, holy in soul and body, like a lily sprouting among thorns."
> Theodotus of Ancrya, Homily VI:11(ante A.D. 446).
>
> "The angel took not the Virgin from Joseph, but gave her to Christ, to
> whom she was pledged from Joseph, but gave her to Christ, to whom she
> was pledged in the womb, when she was made." Peter Chrysologus, Sermon
> 140 (A.D. 449).
>
> "[T]he very fact that God has elected her proves that none was ever
> holier than Mary, if any stain had disfigured her soul, if any other
> virgin had been purer and holier, God would have selected her and
> rejected Mary." Jacob of Sarug (ante A.D. 521).
>
> "She is born like the cherubim, she who is of a pure, immaculate
> clay." Theotokos of Livias, Panegyric for the feast of the Assumption,
> 5:6 (ante A.D. 650).
>
> "Today humanity, in all the radiance of her immaculate nobility,
> receives its ancient beauty. The shame of sin had darkened the
> splendour and attraction of human nature; but when the Mother of the
> Fair One par excellence is born, this nature regains in her person its
> ancient privileges and is fashioned according to a perfect model truly
> worthy of God.... The reform of our nature begins today and the aged
> world, subjected to a wholly divine transformation, receives the first
> fruits of the second creation." Andrew of Crete, Sermon I, On the
> Birth of Mary (A.D. 733).
>
> > **  Luke neither attended any of Jesus' lectures, met Jesus,
> > or wrote the Gospel of Luke. =20
>
> So you think that there only twelve?  Luke was one of the seventy
> disciples.  Google "seventy disciples" and find out.

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