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... essential " ( CP 8 , 234 ) . We must grasp the form of an object if we would define it because a definition explains " what a thing is " ; " it defines the essence of a given thing and circumscribes it as if by its limits " ( CP 8 , 310 ) ...
... essential " ( CP 8 , 234 ) . We must grasp the form of an object if we would define it because a definition explains " what a thing is " ; " it defines the essence of a given thing and circumscribes it as if by its limits " ( CP 8 , 310 ) ...
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... essential to God follows necessarily from his unstinting emphasis on the absolutely free will of God as the ultimate agent . In the famous passage from Book VII , which I quoted above , God's potency and freedom to act imply one another ...
... essential to God follows necessarily from his unstinting emphasis on the absolutely free will of God as the ultimate agent . In the famous passage from Book VII , which I quoted above , God's potency and freedom to act imply one another ...
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... essential , and of his generation from eternity " ( CP 6 , 211 ) . 32. Hunter , " The Exaltation of the Son , " pp . 126-29 . 33. Danielson , Milton's Good God , pp . 214-24 , claims that Milton's view of the Son's place in creation ...
... essential , and of his generation from eternity " ( CP 6 , 211 ) . 32. Hunter , " The Exaltation of the Son , " pp . 126-29 . 33. Danielson , Milton's Good God , pp . 214-24 , claims that Milton's view of the Son's place in creation ...
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