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... paradoxes of God's creation . God's reply emphasizes the mystery and the paradox . Man must recognize them , but he must accept that he cannot fathom them . The solution to Job's problem , in fact , is subsumed in wonder . There are ...
... paradoxes of God's creation . God's reply emphasizes the mystery and the paradox . Man must recognize them , but he must accept that he cannot fathom them . The solution to Job's problem , in fact , is subsumed in wonder . There are ...
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... paradox . In any case , for Milton a life of effortless virtue in a seasonless and workless Paradise was , as Socrates said of the unexamined life , άvegétαotos Bíos , no life for a human being , οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ . In Aldous Huxley's ...
... paradox . In any case , for Milton a life of effortless virtue in a seasonless and workless Paradise was , as Socrates said of the unexamined life , άvegétαotos Bíos , no life for a human being , οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ . In Aldous Huxley's ...
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... paradox . Virgil , the supreme poet of Rome , whose empire was in Dante's view divinely ordained to provide for the coming of Christianity , the poet who prophesied not only the greatness of the Roman Empire , but , in his fourth ...
... paradox . Virgil , the supreme poet of Rome , whose empire was in Dante's view divinely ordained to provide for the coming of Christianity , the poet who prophesied not only the greatness of the Roman Empire , but , in his fourth ...
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