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Book Fifteen opens: come before God clean and washed
ON ADORATION AND WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH — BOOK FIFTEEN. That we must stand before God clean and washed, and that our cleansing, once again, is in Christ.
Cyril: From the whole of our discussion, Palladius, a clear and evident proof has been gathered for us that we must go…
Greek ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΝ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΠΕΝΤΕΚΑΙΔΕΚΑΤΟΣ. Ὅτι χρὴ καθαροὺς καὶ ἐκνενιμμένους παρίστα σθαι τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ὅτι ἐν Χριστῷ πάλιν ἡμῖν ἡ καθάρσις. Ἐκ παντὸς ἡμῖν, ὦ Παλλάδιε, συναγήγερται λόγου σαφής τε καὶ ἐναργὴς ἀπόδειξις, τοῦ δεῖν ἰέναι
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