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 1 13|         in persecution have had a period [of penance] laid upon them,
 2 17|     eighth century; and the third period shews ~its gradual decline
 3 17|        the eleventh ~century. The period with which we are concerned
 4 17|        full force.~ ~In the first period it would seem that public
 5 17|      adultery. But in ~the second period the list of mortal sins
 6 21|         through the whole of that period, was fuller and more public
 7 28|            and episcopate at that period of the church's history.
 8 30| historians. He was born near ~the period when the Council of Nicaea
 9 32|      latter were at a very ~early period reckoned among the higher
10 35|          in the way of fixing the period of Easter did not indeed ~
11 35|           agree with it about the period for Easter--in fact(a),
12 35|        Ambrose also mentioned the period ~of this same Easter in