XII. The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit
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Two things are necessary for an understanding of this. First we must make ourselves acquainted with something purely historical, that is, with the manner of giving of names which was quite different in the age in which the Gospels were written from the way in which it is done at present.
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