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He left Helen down in the darkness for an hour after the Cascarino boys departed and memories of the other boy have unnerved her, even though Shaun was far more talkative and comprehensible in his urgent whispering of escape plans
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The process of attention, or attending to certain things and ignoring or filtering out others, is the way we limit the information coming into consciousness to what we can make comprehensible to ourselves
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There is a notable and a comprehensible structure, patterns that are repeated and the number 7 is found as the foundation for construction of the text
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And then there are those who just become confused by complexity too great for them to grasp, as in the quotes from the Physicist Steven Weinberg, that Berlinski uses, “The more comprehensible the universe becomes, the more it also seems pointless
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Let me remind you that we have already listed a multitude of verses in scripture where the following is clearly comprehensible:
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It is true that there are sections of scripture which is really tough to understand, but mostly, the Bible is written in clear comprehensible language
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The principle is to study that which is easily comprehensible first to form a frame of reference
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I could really see no difference between him and them, and their languages were mutually comprehensible, but they seemed to have a thinly veiled contempt for Klah, and I was suspect since I was in his company
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His sentence structure proved to be quite imaginative if not precisely comprehensible
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It was suddenly comprehensible that putting my face close enough to her most
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” He further said, “The fact that the cosmos is comprehensible and that it follows laws, is the defining quality of a God, who reveals himself in all that exists
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newness of propositions comprehensible, although it is difficult to say how a recognized proposition can be unfamiliar at all
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There isn’t a wheelchair-accessible slope that leads you to a coherent and comprehensive (and comprehensible) overview
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The method really adopted is readily comprehensible, and is in fact much
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resistless onward sweep of a vast sea of light, light with a purpose (if that is comprehensible) tremendously concentrated, but absolutely without strain or
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comprehensible to us when we think of methods of generation and
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10 He was, indeed, the Son of even the Elohim God; but in the likeness of mortal flesh and to the mortal sons of God, he chose to limit his life revelation to the portrayal of his Father's character in so far as such a revelation might be comprehensible to mortal man
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The reception was barely comprehensible, being badly affected by the electrical storm she was flying through
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“You cannot reason the phenomenon of the double; it is not comprehensible within it
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De Gaulle had to concentrate to understand all that she said: while not as different from its modern version than, say, Old English, Old French still needed a good ear and undivided attention to be comprehensible
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of the component parts be comprehensible
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To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason
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In my case, because my own worldview gave me no way of comprehending the Listeners as the myth portrayed them, my mind simply fabricated a meaning for me that made them comprehensible
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What was this strange talk? In his home the talk was never strange; it was all as orderly, and comprehensible, and pleasant as these rows of tidy, sweet primulas
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As she mumbled incoherently he retied the ropes and left her lying on the floor breathing loudly through her nostrils and staring in disbelieve at the person who could kill for no comprehensible reason
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It’s all right! Only one thing is important to me: to make the Information I give more clear and comprehensible to you with the help of the numerous “orisisms”
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So, since such terms as “holography” and “holographic” already exist, are known, and are comprehensible to many, especially to those who deal with physics and other sciences, it is much easier for me to use them in a deeper and wider meaning than to devise new terms and to offer lengthy explanations
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With the help of Configurations of focused-by-Me Forms, I can logically “distinguish” from a common multidimensional Flow of Information which I receive from different frequency Levels only that which can be comprehensible or at least somehow typical of our Reality and only that which is associated with Aspects of the two dominant Pure Cosmic Qualities synthesized by us and with dynamics of their specific force combinations with Aspects of the other ten (background) Qualities
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I want you to begin to trust the Knowledge which I share with you and try to make it comprehensible
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Therefore, any Information, being an integral part of the general dynamics of Energy-Plasma, has some specific and not quite comprehensible (to us) properties that can quickly and in a unique way restructure wave NUU-VVU-Configurations of the “personality” Self-Consciousness, thereby influencing our further choices, and, therefore, the dynamics and the general Direction of the process of our refocusings
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Then we, by our stable Desire of creative realization in a certain kind of life creativity (to build the most beautiful house), through karmo-klofts of the highest-frequency UU-VVU-conglomerates that already exist in our ODS, adapt the already kleksized (by them) Information of wave Fields-Consciousnesses to a more comprehensible kind (for our Imagination) — a particular Thought-Form, after which we “dress” it in the VVU-Configurations of the most active (in our Self-Consciousness) Conceptions (at the same time, we, of course, definitively distort the Essence of the FLAKS-Idea) and “lower” the wave dynamics to the Levels of the frequency interaction between corpuscular particles (we project our Conceptions on paper in the form of a picture or a drawing)
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comprehensible to the visitors
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The Creator’s potential mystical or mysterious relational love for the created is indeed a phenomenon that is partially experienced within aspects of human love, but which must be, by definition, for humans, not unequivocally and transparently comprehensible
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As the centuries rolled on, obscure intimations were given to the prophets, in language more comprehensible to us than to themselves, of the existence of a 'Lord,’ distinct from the Father, who nevertheless 'sits at His Right Hand’ on the Throne of the Universe (the Adon of Psalm cx
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That seemed to him whole and comprehensible and restful
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If the matter had stopped there, it would have been a scandal which was in some way comprehensible
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failures and this hostility was now perfectly comprehensible to him
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I should not permit myself to express it so, speaking with a man of no education,’ he said, ‘but I imagine that to you this is comprehensible
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"A feeling, sir," he explained, "perfectly comprehensible in a man properly grateful for the many kindnesses received from the best families of merchants and other native gentlemen of independent means, who, barely saved by us from the excesses of the mob, seemed, to my mind's eye, destined to become the prey in person and fortune of the native soldiery, which, as is well known, behave with regrettable barbarity to the inhabitants during their civil commotions
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‘I am very sorry that nothing but what’s coarse and material is comprehensible and natural to you,’ she said
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That’s comprehensible and rational
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The images and fears became more and more entangled with the loss of reason that his mother had suffered in later life, but at least this was a comprehensible and legitimate anxiety and dread
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So differently sound the exalted one's pure teachings, clearer, purer, more comprehensible, nothing strange, foolish, or silly is contained in them
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These latter quotations at least were based on enthusiasm and hope—out of all proportion to reality and common sense, but at least comprehensible
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They are also responsible for taking the raw data from the server and displaying it in a comprehensible form to the user
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Operating systems tend to simplify the appearance of the network protocol stack to make it more comprehensible to the average user
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They received Pierre in their small, new drawing-room, where it was impossible to sit down anywhere without disturbing its symmetry, neatness, and order; so it was quite comprehensible and not strange that Berg, having generously offered to disturb the symmetry of an armchair or of the sofa for his dear guest, but being apparently painfully undecided on the matter himself, eventually left the visitor to settle the question of selection
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With Pfuel was Wolzogen, who expressed Pfuel’s thoughts in a more comprehensible way than Pfuel himself (who was a harsh, bookish theorist, self-confident to the point of despising everyone else) was able to do
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They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us
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Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind
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Laws of motion of any kind become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous elements
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And that other side of life, of which she had never before thought and which had formerly seemed to her so far away and improbable, was now nearer and more akin and more comprehensible than this side of life, where everything was either emptiness and desolation or suffering and indignity
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In everything near and comprehensible he had only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless
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The self-sacrifice of a father or mother, or self-sacrifice with the possibility of a reward, is more comprehensible than gratuitous self-sacrifice, and therefore seems less deserving of sympathy and less the result of free will
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3, is a simple and intuitively comprehensible tool for qualitative evaluation of the index delta
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To Tarzan this was scarcely comprehensible; his judgment told him that no man would venture toward the village of the cruel blacks armed only with a spear which, from the awkward way in which he carried it, was evidently an unaccustomed weapon to this white man
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For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
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Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form
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I do this to make things more comprehensible for the reader, and because I can't foresee where this account could fit in in the later part of my story
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When at last Touchard himself became comprehensible, something unbearable began in my soul
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In spite of the magnificent harvest, never had there been, or, at least, never it seemed to him, had there been so many hindrances and so many quarrels between him and the peasants as that year, and the origin of these failures and this hostility was now perfectly comprehensible to him
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"But this was an unforeseen occurrence," I was beginning, in very comprehensible agitation
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” This reasoning, however, seemed to end in a paradox, and lead to the further consideration:—“What matter though it be only disease, an abnormal tension of the brain, if when I recall and analyze the moment, it seems to have been one of harmony and beauty in the highest degree—an instant of deepest sensation, overflowing with unbounded joy and rapture, ecstatic devotion, and completest life?” Vague though this sounds, it was perfectly comprehensible to Muishkin, though he knew that it was but a feeble expression of his sensations
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” And thereupon the prince had hastened off to that house, and what was there in the fact that he had met Rogojin there? He had only seen a wretched, suffering creature, whose state of mind was gloomy and miserable, but most comprehensible
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“It is quite clear that he did not eat them all at once, but in a space of fifteen or twenty years: from that point of view the thing is comprehensible and natural
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“It is as clear as possible, and most comprehensible, that you, in your enthusiasm, should plunge headlong into the first chance that came of publicly airing your great idea that you, a prince, and a pure-living man, did not consider a woman disgraced if the sin were not her own, but that of a disgusting social libertine! Oh, heavens! it’s comprehensible enough, my dear prince, but that is not the question, unfortunately! The question is, was there any reality and truth in your feelings? Was it nature, or nothing but intellectual enthusiasm? What do you think yourself? We are told, of course, that a far worse woman was forgiven, but we don’t find that she was told that she had done well, or that she was worthy of honour and respect! Did not your common-sense show you what was the real state of the case, a few months later? The question is now, not whether she is an innocent woman (I do not insist one way or the other—I do not wish to); but can her whole career justify such intolerable pride, such insolent, rapacious egotism as she has shown? Forgive me, I am too violent, perhaps, but—”
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He had no one but his mother, and what can a mother do alone, and in such circumstances? Do you know, Pyotr Stepanovitch, it's perfectly comprehensible to me now that a being like Nicolas could be found even in such filthy haunts as you have described
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Since then they had both been depraved, he by military service and a vicious life, she by marriage with a man whom she loved with a sensual love, who did not care for the things that had once been so dear and holy to her and to her brother, nor even understand the meaning of those aspirations towards moral perfection and the service of mankind, which once constituted her life, and put them down to ambition and the wish to show off; that being the only explanation comprehensible to him
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The unpleasant conversation had been brought to an end, and Nathalie was quieter, but she did not care to talk in her husband’s presence of what could be comprehensible only to her brother, so, wishing to start a general conversation, she began talking about the sorrow of Kamenski’s mother at losing her only son, who had fallen in a duel, for this Petersburg topic of the day had now reached Moscow
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But since, in the first place, men do not stand still, but incessantly move forward, comprehending the truth more and more, and approaching it with their lives, and, in the second place, all of them, through their age, education, and race, are predisposed to a gradation of men, from those who are most capable to comprehend newly revealed truths in an internal way to those who are least capable to do so, the men who stand nearest to those who have attained the truth in an internal way one after another, at first after long periods of time, and then more and more frequently, pass over to the side of the new truth, and the number of men who recognize the new truth grows larger and larger, and the truth grows all the time more and more comprehensible
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The greater the number of men who attain the truth and the more the truth is comprehensible, the more confidence is evoked in the rest of the men, who in their ability to comprehend stand on a lower stage, and the easier does the attainment of the truth grow for them, and the greater is the number who make the truth their own
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Therefore the change in the life of humanity, the one in consequence of which men in power will renounce the power and among the men who submit to power there will not be found such as are desirous of seizing it, will not arrive when all men one after another to the very last shall have consciously attained the Christian life-conception, but when there arises a definite, easily comprehensible Christian public opinion which will conquer all that inert mass that is unable by an internal way to attain the truths and so is always subject to the effect of public opinion
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This is just as comprehensible in the case of the supreme judge, who receives a salary of six or more thousand, and in the case of all the higher officials
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" And the names of these places, where so much food was eaten and so many kinds of wine were consumed, were pronounced like words reminding one of the loftiest, most valorous of acts of the representatives of both nations, words after which there was nothing else to be said, because everything was comprehensible
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Not only do they, being all connected with one another, approve and justify the acts and the activities of one another,—the emperors and kings, the acts of the soldiers, the officials, and the clergy; and the military, the officials, and the clergy, the acts of the emperors, the kings, and one another,—the popular crowd, especially the city crowd, which sees no comprehensible meaning in everything which is being done by these men, involuntarily ascribes a special, almost a supernatural significance to them
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To him it seems clear and comprehensible that art consists in manifesting beauty, and that a reference to beauty will serve to explain all questions about art
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What is art, if we put aside the conception of beauty, which confuses the whole matter? The latest and most comprehensible definitions of art, apart from the conception of beauty, are the following: (1 a) Art is an activity arising even in the animal kingdom, and springing from sexual desire and the propensity to play (Schiller, Darwin, Spencer), and (1 b) accompanied by a pleasurable excitement of the nervous system (Grant Allen)
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And this was an easier task, and the artist was involuntarily drawn to express himself by allusions comprehensible only to the initiated, and obscure to every one else
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To be exact, I should mention that the collection contains verses less comprehensible than these, but not one poem which is plain and can be understood without a certain effort—an effort seldom rewarded; for the feelings which the poet transmits are evil and very low ones
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A third exhibit was even less comprehensible: a man's profile; before him a flame and black stripes—leeches, as I was afterwards told
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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to every one
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And such has always been the nature of good, supreme art; the "Iliad," the "Odyssey," the stories of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, the Hebrew prophets, the psalms, the gospel parables, the story of Sakya Muni, and the hymns of the Vedas: all transmit very elevated feelings, and are nevertheless quite comprehensible now to us, educated or uneducated, as they were comprehensible to the men of those times, long ago, who were even less educated than our laborers
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on man's relation to God? Such art should be, and has actually always been, comprehensible to everybody, because every man's relation to God is one and the same
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And therefore the churches and the images in them were always comprehensible to every one
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I do try to understand, and all that is said in the Sermon on the Mount is plain and comprehensible
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That Joseph's brethren, being jealous of his father's affection, sell him to the merchants; that Potiphar's wife wishes to tempt the youth; that having attained the highest station, he takes pity on his brothers, including Benjamin, the favorite,—these and all the rest are feelings accessible alike to a Russian peasant, a Chinese, an African, a child, or an old man, educated or uneducated; and it is all written with such restraint, is so free from any superfluous detail, that the story may be told to any circle and will be equally comprehensible and touching to every one
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they are not comprehensible to the whole people but only to some people
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In the arts of painting and sculpture, all pictures and statues in so-called genre style, depictions of animals, landscapes and caricatures with subjects comprehensible to every one, and also all kinds of ornaments, are universal in subject-matter
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In reality all such objects, if only they transmit a true feeling experienced by the artist and comprehensible to every one (however insignificant it may seem to us to be) are works of real good Christian art
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Only then will science cease to be what it is now,—on the one hand a system of sophistries, needed for the maintenance of the existing worn-out order of society, and, on the other hand, a shapeless mass of miscellaneous knowledge, for the most part good for little or nothing,—and become a shapely and organic whole, having a definite and reasonable purpose comprehensible to all men; namely, the purpose of bringing to the consciousness of men the truths that flow from the religious perception of our times
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Indeed, what is that money which I give to the poor, and which the cook's wife thought I was giving her? In the majority of cases it forms such a minute part of my income that it cannot be expressed in a fraction comprehensible to Simon or to a cook's wife,—it is in most cases a millionth part or thereabout
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As in one teaching, so in the other: the new dogma is necessary for the support of the old one, and becomes comprehensible only in connection with it
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If to a believer in the Divinity of Christ, it is not clearly comprehensible why God should come down to earth, the doctrine of atonement explains it