At the end of the summer of 256, he sent the deacon Rogatian to Firmilian with a letter, together with the documents on the subject — letters of the pope, of his own, and of his council at Carthage in the spring, and the treatise De Ecclesia Catholica Unitate.

Firmilian reassures Cyprian's church at Carthage that with them the custom of rebaptizing may be new, but in Cappadocia it has been the custom from the very beginning ( c. xix ), and he can answer Stephen by opposing tradition to tradition, and that some time since, he had joined in a council at Iconium with the bishops of Galatia and Cilicia and other provinces, and had decided to rebaptize the Montanists ( c. vii and xix ); for these acts Stephen excommunicated the Eastern churches.

As a poet Dobell belongs to the Spasmodic school of poetry, as it was named by Professor Aytoun, who parodied its style in Firmilian: A Spasmodic Tragedy.

Smith, P. J. Bailey and Sydney Dobell were satirized by W. E. Aytoun in 1854 in Firmilian: a Spasmodic Tragedy.

Saint Firmilian ( died c. 269 ), Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca from ca.

Aytoun's parodic Firmilian: A Spasmodic Tragedy ( 1854 ) is credited with getting the verse of the Spasmodic school laughed down as bombast.

A single letter of Firmilian to Cyprian survives among Cyprian's correspondence.

Jerome omits Firmilian from De viris illustribus.

Gregory of Nyssa tells that Gregory Thaumaturgus, when still a pagan, having completed his secular studies, " fell in with Firmilian, a Cappadocian of noble family, similar to himself in character and talent, as he showed in his subsequent life when he adorned the Church of Caesarea.

Dionysius counts Firmilian as one of " the more eminent bishops " in a letter to Pope Stephen I ( Eusebius, VII, v, 1 ), where his expression " Firmilian and all Cappadocia " implies that Caesarea was already a metropolitan see.

In a letter to Pope Sixtus II ( 257 – 58 ), Dionysius mentions that in the controversy over rebaptism of the lapsed Pope Stephen had refused communication with Helenus of Tarsus, Firmilian, and all Cilicia and Cappadocia, and the neighbouring lands ( Eusebius, VII, v, 3-4 ), a subject touched on in the sole surviving letter of Firmilian, a response to Cyprian.

" Firmilian is fond of dilemmas: for instance, either the heretics do not give the Holy Ghost, in which case rebaptism is necessary, or else they do give it, in which case Stephen should not forbid the laying on of hands.

Firmilian enables us to gather much of the drift of Stephen's letter to Cyprian.

He had appealed to tradition from St. Peter and St. Paul: this is an insult to the Apostles, cries Firmilian, for they execrated heretics.

In the controversies over rebaptism of lapsed Christians, Firmilian was an opponent of the stringent policy of antipope Novatian ( see Novatianism ), for Dionysius in 252 – 53 writes that the bishops of Cilicia, Cappadocia, and Palestine had invited him to a synod at Antioch to repudiate Novatianism ( Eusebius, VI, xlvi, 3 ).

Referring to Britain, he says, `` We see a nation that traditionally values sovereignty above all else willing to give up its economy, placing this authority in Continental hands ''.

Leslie Newbiggin reflects the dominant position within the World Council of Churches when he says, `` We must claim absoluteness and finality for Christ and His finished work, but that very claim forbids us to claim absoluteness and finality for our understanding of it ''.

We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.

He also admitted: " We can't point to a verse in the Bible that says you shouldn't date or marry inter-racial.

The Athanasian Creed, received in the Western Church as having the same status as the Nicene and Chalcedonian, says: " We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity ; neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance.

Paul says, " We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

' We have about 17 songs we're testing out ," says frontman Mark Mothersbaugh.

For example, if I say “ Star Wars is a shitty movie ,” and my friend says, “ Star Wars is not a shitty movie !” We have no shared reality, for in our language, truth lies in only one of our statements and we can forever argue these truths until one of us writes a book and has more authority than the other.

The EPR paper says: " We are thus forced to conclude that the quantum-mechanical description of physical reality given by wave functions is not complete.

We were the outlaw country band for a brief period ,” says Hillman.

“ We ’ ll return to Arkansas for at least another field season ,” says Rohrbaugh.

“ We remain committed to our original goal of striving to locate breeding pairs ,” says Cornell Lab of Ornithology director John Fitzpatrick.

" We don't believe a recoverable population of ivory-billed woodpeckers exists ," says Ron Rohrbaugh, a conservation biologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who headed the original search team.

A Karaim of Trakai talking in Karaim language in a documentary says We, descendants of Khazars of Kipchaks, came to Lithuania from Crimea long time ago.

Captain Mainwaring says " We have one invaluable weapon in our armoury: ingenuity and improvisation ", to which Private Frazer replies " That's two.

We may remark here that it seems unnecessary to hold that because Matthew and Mark say " two days before the Passover ", while John says " six days " there were, therefore, two distinct anointings following one another.

Prof. Edward J. Steele says: " We now stand on the threshold of what could be an exciting new era of genetic research.

For in the Epistle which he wrote to the priests of Gaul, charging them with connivance with error, in that by their silence they failed in their duty to the ancient faith, and allowed profane novelties to spring up, he says: " We are deservedly to blame if we encourage error by silence.

He says that " We find ourselves not only in a world other than our own, but identifying with a living, breathing individual who is operating within its context, and thinking and acting according to its terms.

The Quran says in Surah An-Nisa " And because of their saying, " We killed Messiah ' Îsâ ( Jesus ), son of Maryam ( Mary ), the Messenger of Allâh ," – but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it appeared so to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts ".

We didn't move at the beginning, but he says, ' Let me have these seats.

The Qur ' an says: " And We verily gave knowledge to Dawud and Sulayman and they said: praise be to God ( Allah ) Who has preferred us above many of his believing servants ".

We can communicate such a game of chess in the exact way that Wittgenstein says a proposition represents the world.

John Stuart Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures might suggest that he gave more status to humans but in The Methods of Ethics Sidgwick says " We have next to consider who the " all " are, whose happiness is to be taken into account.

We should also remember to strike out AAA ; this says that since the cube of a is the identity element of G, so is the cube of the inverse of a.

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

His birth, education, and fortune, he says, have all been ridiculed simply because he has spoken with the freedom of an Englishman, and he assures the reader that `` whoever talks with me, is speaking to a Gentleman born ''.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

`` To have become so corrupt '', he says, `` surely you must have studied many arts and sciences ''.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

The opening paragraph of the chapter titled The Theory Of Representative Perception, in the book Philosophies Of Science by Albert G. Ramsperger says, `` passed on to the brain, and there, by some unexplained process, it causes the mind to have a perception ''.

Furthermore, Dr. Calderone says, a certain number of docile, retiring men always have been around.

`` most orthodontic work is done on children between the ages of 10 and 14, though there have been patients as young as two and as old as 55 '', says Dr. Brodie.

Or have a sign on his car that says, ' Here Comes the Paxton Kidnapper ' ''??

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

`` Mostly meat and potatoes -- they have to have that go-go-go without getting too fat '', says Ramsey.

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

Herodian says " in their opinion Alexander showed no honourable intention to pursue the war and preferred a life of ease, when he should have marched out to punish the Germans for their previous insolence ".

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

Article 25 of the Thirty-Nine Articles, speaking of the sacraments, says: " Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures ; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip's remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "... Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost.

Section 72 says " Any person who takes part in a fight in a public place, or takes part in a fight of such a nature as to alarm the public in any other place to which the public have access, commits a misdemeanour.

Preaching directly against the Christian dogma, Abbahu says: " A king of flesh and blood may have a father, a brother, or a son to share in or dispute his sovereignty, but the Lord saith, ' I am the Lord thy God!

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.