The creed thus evolved-the expression... is of Western origin-was finally signed by all the deputies with the exception of the bishops Theonas of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais: even the Arians had submitted... For it was the proclamation of the Nicene Creed that first opened the eyes of many bishops to the significance of the problem there treated; and its explanation led the Church to force herself, by the arduous path of theological work, into compliance with those principles, enunciated at Nicaea, to which, in the year 32 5, she had pledged herself without genuine assent.
The creed thus evolved-the expression... is of Western origin-was finally signed by all the deputies with the exception of the bishops Theonas of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais: even the Arians had submitted
在皇帝的威懾下,很多主教都是迫不得已的:
they were merely competent to establish negations, but lacked the capacity, as yet, to give their attitude of compromise a positive expression... yet this result was due, not to internal conviction, but partly to indifference, partly to the pressure of the imperial will
they were merely competent to establish negations, but lacked the capacity, as yet, to give their attitude of compromise a positive expression... yet this result was due, not to internal conviction, but partly to indifference, partly to the pressure of the imperial will
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抽刀斷水 發表於 2018/11/30 18:46
其實你都幾很茅躉,你將句子截尾,只抽你心目心啱使的幾粒字:partly to the pressure of the imperial will
全句應係咁架喎:
你明唔明後邊那從句---- a fact which is mainly demonstrated by the subsequence hhistory of the Arian conflicts 係形容乜既呢?