 | 1856 - 542 pages
...be justified or condemned : as we see that Fortune crushes Nature, so we can also see the Free-will of man repelling and crushing Fortune itself; but...creatures, and the state of all Beings and Natures.' — Pp. 14, 15. This is a pretty specimen of the Gnostic views, and enables us to see something of... | |
 | Christianity - 1856 - 538 pages
...be justified or condemned : as we see that Fortune crushes Nature, so we can also see the Free-will of man repelling and crushing Fortune itself; but...of all creatures, and the state of all Beings and Natures.'—Pp. 14, 15. This is a pretty specimen of the Gnostic views, and enables us to see something... | |
 | James Franklin Bethune-Baker - Theology, Doctrinal - 1908 - 528 pages
...probably a wider application than the Greek i/iiW. Bardaisan, in the work referred to, speaks of God "who ordained how should be the life and perfection of all creatures and the state of \thye and k'yana". And Ephraim in the tract Against False Doctrines writes : " And who can fix a nature... | |
 | James Franklin Bethune-Baker - Nestorians - 1908 - 260 pages
...probably a wider application than the Greek ^vo-ss. Bardaisan, in the work referred to, speaks of God " who ordained how should be the life and perfection of all creatures and the state of ithye and Kyana". And Ephraim in the tract Against False Doctrines writes: "And who can fix a nature... | |
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Nature in everything ; for it is proper that the three things, Nature and Fortune and Free-will, should be maintained in their lives until the procession be accomplished, and the measure and number be fulfilled, as it seemed good before Him who ordained... 