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The canonical example is fudge factor.
Persons bound by canonical vows to chastity.
The hateful canonical laws were tacitly annulled.
No chapter, no book can be reputed canonical without his authority.
No chapter, no book, can be reputed canonical without his authority.
The ideal parson, that is, should be a squire in canonical dress.
"This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."
Dispensations got over canonical difficulties, and in due course he took holy orders.
The Apostolic origin of the canonical rule of life has never been denied.
There is no such thing as distinctions between canonical and apocryphal books.
"That there is nothing to distinguish the canonical from the apocryphal writings."
Once the Gospels had attained canonical authority the rest was a foregone conclusion.
It may be the office has helped to cover some of his canonical irregularities.
The story is taken from the apocryphal as well as the canonical Gospels.
It now includes the Apocryphal books which Jerome did not accept as canonical.
The canonical books were declared to furnish an infallible rule of faith and practice.
Father Jerome, is this strictly canonical; gunpowder I fear is altogether a temporal affair.
That there is nothing to distinguish the canonical from the apocryphal writings. c.
Paul, the canonical Epistle, and the Apocalypse, written in gold letters on vellum.
The canonical prohibition of usury could not withstand the pressure of public convenience.
When summoned to a Synod I will come, unless hindered by a canonical impediment.
May he not cheat in shuffling, and yet be in full orders and canonical?
The canonical life of the clergy gives rise to the foundation of the Episcopal schools.
There was a gaunt priest, with canonical robes, stood before the gates of heaven.
They are frequently violated in the Apocryphal Gospels, never, I think, in the Canonical ones.
We find no trace of this dogma, either in the canonical or in the apocryphal gospels.
He essayed vainly to explain to Napoleon the canonical reasons which had determined the commission.
In the vestry a copy of the canonical law, in seven volumes folio, is still preserved.
The two Canonical Evangelists made use of imperfect fragments destitute of one member of the sentence.
And if guilty of such perjury, the penitentiary should be their canonical residence for life!
That no action of a synod and no book shall be regarded as canonical without his authority.
The fourth reason: for we have already taken for granted their subjection and canonical institution.
I will come to a council when I am called, unless I am hindered by a canonical impediment.
No synod without his consent is general; no episcopal chapter, no book, canonical without his authority.
At last, in the thirteenth century, even theologians do not distinguish between canonical and apocryphal books.
They lived mostly outside of the cathedral diocese, and had their canonical duties performed by vicars.
Old Parson Dresser, in canonical robes, with much and impressive solemnity recited the Episcopal service.
Its importance for our present purpose is in its bearing upon the trustworthiness of our canonical Gospels.
Broadly, an irregularity is a canonical and permanent impediment to the reception and exercise of ecclesiastical orders.
The fourth party demanded that all the books, acknowledged, disputed, and apocryphal, be declared canonical.
Fragmentary teachings of occult philosophy seem at first to be no more than annotations on the canonical doctrine.
What appears surprising to them is that this work has been consecrated among the canonical books.
Their forethought was insufficient permanently to prevent royal influence from bending canonical election to its will.
Implicitly it contained the vow of chastity, since chastity is an integral part of the Canonical Rule.
If the recital of the office for any canonical hour be interrupted, should the whole hour be repeated?
They rustle in their canonical silks, and swagger in their buff and scarlet, who but they?
The Apostolic Constitutions indeed he terms "the most sacred of the Canonical Books of the New Testament."
The weight of authority is on the side that it does cause canonical impotence, as has already been mentioned.
Parson Dresser was attired in full canonical robes and recited the service with much impressive solemnity.
Norman Will was not a whit the worse because his mother never stood outside the canonical rail.
In another fresco St Francis is dressed in canonical garb, attended by angels, who sing praise to him.
We try to get over our distrust of the Book of Numbers, and to think it quite canonical; vainly, vainly.
Joan had gout in her hands and feet so badly that she could not perform her canonical duties.
Beside the villagers sat two venerable old men, whose canonical hats indicated their quality as village pastors.
Beside the villagers sat two venerable old men, whose canonical hats indicated their quality as village pastors.
They write of such precepts as of fasting for forty days, the four canonical hours for prayer, etc.
They aver that all points of belief necessary for salvation are contained in the canonical books of the Bible.
And now there was still the oath of canonical obedience to take before lunch; but luckily that was short.
The principles embodied in the canonical law had by this time entered into the practice of the European nations.
The writings of the ancient fathers are of authority only in so far as they are conformable to canonical truth.
Let's see: nay, I'll be sworn he has the canonical smirk, and the filthy clammy palm of a chaplain.
The sixty-six books enumerated above are inspired, and are called the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testaments.
He would not imitate those speakers who had attempted to conjure up a canonical or theological defense of the Bill.
I append a chronological table, and an index to the canonical chapters will be found before the index of subjects.
In reckoning up his available hours he deducted so much in each day for the due performance of his canonical duties.
No one knows how severe or how long a Purgatory was, or is, implied in a hundred days of canonical penance.
In this matter, as about the Infancy generally, the apocryphal gospels are as rich in detail as the canonical are poor.
For many years he lived in the most commodious canonical house in the Close with his sisters Sophia and Sarah.
The original Latin hymn was associated with daily secular worship and then with the canonical hours of the monastery.
Herbert perceiving put off his canonical coat, and helped the poor man to unload, and after to load his horse.
When we pass beyond the bounds of the canonical books, and come to the apostolic fathers, the evidence is equally clear.
Herbert perceiving, put off his canonical coat, and helped the poor man to unload, and after to load, his horse.
Herbert perceiving this, put off his canonical coat, and helped the poor man to unload, and after to load his horse.
Even the extant writings of the second century, however important they may be from other points of view, give a very inadequate idea of the relation of their respective authors to the Canonical writings.
With the references direct or indirect to the Canonical writings in this anonymous teacher I am not concerned here; nor indeed is it necessary to add anything to what has been said in a previous paper.
He sets his face against innovation in such matters as the accepted authorship of canonical writings, verbal inspiration, and the treatment of persons and events in the Old Testament as types of the New.
Justin's quotations, almost without exception, vary more or less from the parallels in the canonical text, and often these variations are consistently repeated by himself, and are found in other works about his time.
Down to a certain period, patriotism required adherence to a traditional form which could not stand investigation; for other epochs the Greeks, especially Polybius, had formed a conception which had acquired a canonical value.
If, then, Justin made use either of a single document or set of documents distinct from those which have become canonical, we conclude that it, or they belonged to a later and more advanced stage of formation.
Towards the end of the second century we find the four Gospels in general circulation and invested with full canonical authority, in Gaul, at Rome, in the province of Africa, at Alexandria, and in Syria.
It may be said that at all events where a religion possesses canonical books, or a definite number of articles, the task of the student of religion becomes easier, and this, no doubt, is true to a certain extent.
In short, the family history of the house of David is of equal historical value with all the other matters on which the Chronicler is more widely and better informed than all the older canonical books.
This leads him to make the most of the smallest discrepancy between the words of any supposed quotation in any early writer from one of our Canonical Gospels, and the words as contained in our present Gospels.
Soon after, he visited all the island, wherever the tribes of the Angles inhabited; and everywhere attended and assisted by Adrian, he taught the right rule of life, and the canonical custom of celebrating Easter.
Obviously the mass of the citizens were superstitious believers, otherwise the traffic could not have gone on; and Luther in his pulpit began merely by opposing the abuse of the practice, not the canonical principle.
Second in interest and importance only to the origin of the individual books composing the Bible are the facts relating to the manner in which these books were collected into one great volume and declared canonical or authoritative.
The Missions form (I will not say according to their primitive and canonical institutions, but in reality) a distinct and nearly independent hierarchy, the views of which seldom accord with those of the secular clergy.
This system of canonical hours, they argued, this seven-fold office of daily prayer is all very beautiful in theory, but it never can be made what in fact it never in the past has been, a practicable thing.
A few of these coincide exactly with our Canonical Gospels; a much larger number have so close a resemblance that, without referring to the actual text of our Gospels, the variations would not be detected by an ordinary reader.
Since, therefore, the passages of Scripture cited do not say that eternal punishments are to be compensated by works that are not due, the adversaries are rash in affirming that these satisfactions are compensated by canonical satisfactions.
Assisted by his council he may examine them on their doctrine and morals, and refuse them canonical installation, but in this case his reasons must be given in writing, and he signed by himself and his council.
For some reason, it bears less evidence on its face of fraudulent manipulation than any other writing of that time, and it is this evidence of its purity which excludes it from the list of canonical Gospels this day.
In vain did they plead that the court before which they were brought was not a canonical one; the government appealed to the general rights of the temporal power as it had once been exercised by the Roman Emperors.
With the respective dates of the several books however we need not concern ourselves; for they all exhibit the same phenomena, so far as regards the attitude of the author towards the Canonical writings of the New Testament.
And if he could not succeed in this endeavor, he would deliver him to them according to the canonical obligations to be punished, and would assist them in this with all his aid and with the secular arm.
Elsewhere, one after the other, the different courses of the meal are served him, cakes, wines, canonical meats, fruits which he needs in the world of the dead: then he is seated in an armchair alone or with his wife.
They sing the psalms of David, of which, as well as the other parts of the Holy Scriptures, they have a very exact translation in their own language; in which, though accounted canonical, the books of the Maccabees are omitted.
This pure ideal man, which makes itself known more or less clearly in every subject, is represented by the state, which is the objective and, so to speak, canonical form in which the manifold differences of the subjects strive to unite.
If, however, we assume a date for the whole piece considerably later than that of the canonical book, it is quite conceivable that the author may have made a backward transference of the circumstances of his own time to that of the earlier exile.
Heine's works are canonical books for the intellectual, who season their judgments with citations from this poet, model their conversation on his style, interpret him, expand the germ cell of his wit to a whole fabric of clever developments.