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140 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.should be greater than the force of sin to sever ;who should gather out of all nations the City ofGod, fed by the exulting and abounding river ofHis Spirit, the fountain proper and peculiar to theChurch of Christ : the mark of that one truth,2222 'H a\rjd¬La : there seems to be no one word in the New Testamentmore pregnant signification than this, which in a greatnces bears the sense of the whole body of the divine r Thet of this meanin woulc seem to lie in Christ HimseDifaia, the dicky of the Father ; on which titleS. Athanasius and S. Cyril of Alexandria specially dwell, while S. Hilary2E m ,gustnes mrd i frmin and by His Incarnation He becomes in a special sense the Truth toel/a£a>>? ' and so the Spirit who proceedsfrom the Father and the Son, " ille ineffabilis quidam complexus(S. Aug.), is TO Uv^a TTJS- dATj^etas, who dfajytpttds Traffav nty aXriOetav: and again, 1 John v. 6, rb IlveC^ua ear*on TO Uyevfjid cany TJ aA?'jdem. This is the first meaning. Secondly, as de-m it, the Truth is the whole body of the divine revelation. Inthis sense it is used in a great many places of S. John's Gospel and theApostolic Epistles, e.g. John i. 14, 17 ; viii. 31 ; xvi. 13 ; xvii. 17 ; xviii.37 ; 1 John ii. 21 ; iii. 19 ; 2 John i. 1-3 ; 3 John 3, 4, 8, 12; 1 Tim. iii.15, where, because this whole body of truth dwells in the Church ofChrist and there alone, it is emphatically called the " House of God,which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of theTruth ;" 1 Tim. ii. 3 ; Rom. xv. 8 2 Cor. iv. 2 ; xiii. 8 ; Gal. iii. 1 v. 7 ;(mKara r&s brtOvfiias TTJS airdr^sthe other, rbv Kara ©eb^ /mcrfleWa e^ 8iKat,o(rvvr} /cat OCH^TTJTI TTJJ aA^fleias1,mass of the Gentiles, as Ta e6j>7? TrepnruTeT eV fj.ara.t6rrirt rovvobs avr&y, eVKOTtcr/xeVoi rp Siavo/a, while Christians eV avrSKa9