Athanasian Creed (Harley) n. 94

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94. All who deny the Divine of the Lord have separated themselves from heaven, placing as it were a cover over themselves. They also appear to themselves to be* without strength in [the joints of] their arms which hang loosely and in pendulum fashion are swung hither and thither. Indeed, they fall into falsities of every kind. When they are thinking of God the Father, some spirit from the lowest heaven, and sometimes an evil spirit, replies and inflows into their thoughts. (Many more things may be seen in the extracts). * . . . the reference here as in HH 3, is to those who have denied the Divine of the Lord. - Tr.


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