Matthew Chapter 12 Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees, and confutes their attributing his miracles to Satan.
Why may not hee rise as well as I: Nothing confutes me but eyes, and no-bodie sees me.
In the eighteenth he confutes the Jews, who pretended that their temple and synagogue would be again restored at Jerusalem.
This entirely confutes the Talmudists, who pretend that no one under twenty years of age could officiate as high priest among the Jews.
But this absurd tenet of Tyreus, Proclus confutes at large in his book de Anima et daemone.
Melancthon de anima confutes those that make the liver a part affected, and Guianerius, Tract.
This produced his book, On the Incarnation and Grace, in the first part of which he confutes the Nestorians and Eutychians, and in the second the Semipelagians.
In another treatise or letter, to the same John and Venerius, who had consulted the Confessors in Sardinia about the doctrine of Faustus of Riez, heconfutes Semipelagianism.
He then solidly confutes the Docætæ, heretics who imagined that Christ was not incarnate, and died only in appearance; whom he calls demoniacs.
This fanaticism and impiety St. Chrysostom confutes in these five homilies, demonstrating, from the infinitude of the divine attributes, and from holy scriptures, that God is essentially incomprehensible to the highest angels.
In his third letter he confutes the Novatian error: that the church could not forgive mortal sin after baptism.
He detects and confutesthe subtilties of the Arians, in their various confessions of faith, (l.
Also, in his works Against Nestorius, whom he confutes from the blessed eucharist, proving Christ's humanity to be the humanity of the divine Person.
That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down.
But this line he has selected, as an instance of virulence and acrimony, and confutes it by a lofty and splendid panegyrick on himself.
Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.
As a son who never had a father he is chosen as the foundation sacrifice for Vortigern's tower by his magicians, but he confutes them and shows why the tower can never be built, namely, because of the dragons in the pool beneath it.
Scuithne maintains he is walking on a field, and plucks a flower to prove it, while Barri confutes him by pulling a salmon out of the sea.
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