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  • The Mishnah (Nedarim 4: 3) says that although person A vows not to derive benefit from person B, Person B may still “teach Scripture to the sons and daughters” of person A.

    Torah Study. 2009

  • “In case any person prove heterodox, and scruples using the words Trinity and Person, we believe not that this can be a reason for rejecting him; we should support him without driving him from the Church, and without exposing him to any censure as a heretic.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • How to they solve problems where two people might have entered the same person, but with slightly different data, for example Person A enters a great-great-great-grandfather called Bob Hudson, who died April 2, 1823, and Person B enters a great-great-great-grandfather called Robert Hudson, who died 1823 (but no date).

    Geni Launches Michael Arrington 2005

  • Page 413 any articles, at any store or of any person, without first obtaining a permit in writing to do so from their Parents or Guardians, or from the Principal of the Academy, or the Principal of the Female Department, or from such Person as shall by their Parents or Guardians be authorised to have charge of their conduct and expences -- which permit shall specify the articles to be purchased.

    North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

  • But the cult that is due to a person is due in like manner to the whole nature of that Person and to all its parts.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • So said the Word made flesh; so taught the man Jesus Christ, the Lord of majesty, constituted Mediator in His own person for the salvation of the Church, and being in that very mystery of Mediatorship between men and God, Himself one Person, both man and God.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • The knowledge of the H.G. It becomes us to know that the H.G. is a person -- not a thing, an influence, or a name for God's operation with man: but a real Person, possessed of intelligence and will, which are the attributes of personality.

    Sermons, 1861-1865, 1862

  • As Sabellius who identifies the Father with the Son, thinking the distinction to be made rather in name than in person, and setting forth one and the same Person as both Father and

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • It asks, "How is this person related to Person 1?"

    lsj.com - News 2010

  • Assumption: person only shows up in one picture. class Person

    townx - Comments Minal Jain 2010

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