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 1 2 |    would seem that more than ~half a century before the meeting
 2 10| Council of Nicaea).~The first half of the canon enacts merely
 3 10|   infringed; while the second half declares what was in future
 4 10|      the meaning of this last half; nor, in fact, ~would the
 5 10|      the meaning of the first half have been questioned, had
 6 20|   Martyr, writing less than a half century after St. John's
 7 24|   demanding the whole and one half, or by using any ~other
 8 26|     more than a century and a half ~before, wrote as follows: "
 9 30|    All this was in the latter half of the sixteenth ~century;
10 30|    Nicaea was held, and about half a ~century after he wrote