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He says Christ "rises from the dead as God, being by nature both God and man" p. 100 in Deiss, physei Theos n kai anthropos.
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He says Christ "rises from the dead as God, being by nature both God and man" p. 100 in Deiss, physei Theos n kai anthropos.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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On the other hand, I see no acceptable possibility of living under the swastika, i.e., under a symbol that says nothing more to me than: you and your ilk, you are physei (3) subhumans and therefore justly pariahs.
Balkinization 2006
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Man, Aristotle said, is a political animal. (ho anthropos physei politikon zoon, Polit., 1253 a 2).
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Man, Aristotle said, is a political animal. ho anthropos physei politikon zoon, Polit., 1253 a 2.
Archive 2006-06-11 2006
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Man, Aristotle said, is a political animal. ho anthropos physei politikon zoon, Polit., 1253 a 2.
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Ossoi gaian echousi Brotoi henos ekpephyasi hos allaela horan ethnesi charma physei.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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To live according to nature (homologoumenos te physei zen) was their supreme rule of conduct.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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And Paul has explicitly stated that "the Gentiles, who have not the [Mosaic] law, do by nature [naturaliter, physei] those things that are of the law" (Rom., ii, 14).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Already the principle of the Stoics, formulated first by Zeno, that we must live consistently or harmoniously (to homologoumenos zen), and stated more explicitly by Cleanthes as the obligation to live in conformity with nature (to homologoumenos te physei zen) gave rise to several interpretations, some understanding nature exclusively as human nature, others chiefly as the whole universe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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