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Page 15
... vision waiting , as it were , to be revitalised . The Psalmist had gazed in wonder at the heavens whose daily revolutions testified to the glory of their Maker , and had visualised God supreme above the created universe , radiant in ...
... vision waiting , as it were , to be revitalised . The Psalmist had gazed in wonder at the heavens whose daily revolutions testified to the glory of their Maker , and had visualised God supreme above the created universe , radiant in ...
Page 19
... vision of the divine , a revitalised God who , in a fuller sense than had previously been conceived , can bind the sweet influence of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion , bring forth the stars in their seasons , know the ordinances of ...
... vision of the divine , a revitalised God who , in a fuller sense than had previously been conceived , can bind the sweet influence of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion , bring forth the stars in their seasons , know the ordinances of ...
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... vision of a vast , yet physically realised heaven and the battle that took place there . The first two books , as we have already noted , are believed to have been written later than the main body of the epic , and not to have formed ...
... vision of a vast , yet physically realised heaven and the battle that took place there . The first two books , as we have already noted , are believed to have been written later than the main body of the epic , and not to have formed ...
Contents
The Arch Antagonist | 50 |
Corporal Forms | 80 |
The War in Heaven | 116 |
Copyright | |
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