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Virtue cannot be separated into male and female. ... The difference is one of bodies not of souls.

— Theodoret The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (2012)

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It is related that when Julian had received the wound, he filled his hand with blood, flung it into the air and cried, "Thou hast won, O Galilean."

Orthodox: You should accept no argument that is not fully supported by Scriptural testimony.

I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe.

The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.

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