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- pronoun The
reflexive pronoun forGod .
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Examples
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For if the Demiurge did not of himself construct that figure of creation which exists, but made it after the form of those things which are above, then from whom did their Bythus -- who, to be sure, brought it about that the Pleroma should be possessed of a configuration of this kind -- receive the figure of those things which existed before Himself?
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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He says that the Father himself came down into the Virgin, was Himself born of her, Himself suffered, indeed, was
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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"Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungry neighbour, and Me."
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893
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Moreover, I offer Thee also this sweet Son of Thine, in union with that love, whereby He offered himself as the highest sacrifice of praise, when on the altar of the Cross; with a loud cry and burning tears; He commended His soul into Thy hands, and Himself, the great High Priest, entered the Holy of Holies, and uncovered the veil of the old tabernacle, and consecrated new
Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. c. 1300-1361 1875
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Himself, to purify _unto Himself_, for Himself, not for Himself and themselves, but _unto Himself_, a people of His own possession.
Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy Andrew Murray 1872
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He himself was, as it were, all and all in Himself; He himself surrounded all from without; He himself was inwardly amongst them.
Light in the Dark Places: or, Memorial of Christian Life in the Middle Ages. 1789-1850 1851
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Testament, God _revealed_ Himself; they knew not the Demiurge in his true relation to the hidden Supreme God, _who never reveals Himself_ in the sensible world.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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With them therefore, virtue was a sort of heroism in the wise man raising himself above the animal nature of man, is sufficient for Himself, and, while he prescribes duties to others, is himself raised above them, and is not subject to any temptation to transgress the moral law.
The Critique of Practical Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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As the Almighty Shepherd of souls does not draw all to himself by the same means, nor guide and nourish them alike; but, on the contrary reveals and communicates himself to them in divers manners, according to his various purposes for them, and their various wants; it pleased Him to grant Patrick, by many manifestations of his grace, the pledge of the certainty of his fellowship with Himself, and of his call to preach the
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If then any one say that it is not the divine Word himself, when He was made flesh and had become man as we are, but another than He, a man born of a woman, yet different from Him who has become our high priest and apostle; or if any one say that He offered Himself as an offering for Himself, and not rather for us, whereas, being without sin, He had no need of offering; let him be anathema.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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