God the Father bestows upon all, existence and participation in Christ, in respect of His being the word of reason, renders them rational beings.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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