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  1  2,1 |         with his own belief in one God."[7] But in spite of this,
  2  2,1 |          usually meant the Persian God, Mithras, whose worship
  3  2,1 |              invoked in prayer the God of Heaven and his Word,
  4  2,1 |         heaven, which were sent by God to aid Constantine in his
  5  2,1 |        will be bound to pray their God for our good estate, that
  6  2,2 |           the idea that the Son of God was a created being. This
  7  2,2 |           recognized as the Son of God, unbegotten, and consubstantial (
  8  2,2 |       dissipated at the command of God those dissensions, schisms,
  9  2,2 |        century, related, one night God visited Constantine in a
 10  2,2 |   inscriptions and coins call him “God” and “Lord” (Deus Aurelianus,
 11  2,2 |            the pagan states:~ ~One God was proclaimed to all mankind.
 12  2,2 |            appointment of the same God, two roots of blessing,
 13  2,2 |       blind, and the Galilean, thy God, will not cure thee.” The
 14  2,2 |        aged man answered, “I thank God for my blindness, since
 15  2,2 |       forefathers in honor of this god [Helios, Sun God, Apollo],
 16  2,2 |           of this god [Helios, Sun God, Apollo], and it was your
 17  2,2 |           choruses in honor of the god, incense, and the youths
 18  2,2 |           festival in honor of the god, the priest answered, “I
 19  2,2 |        goose as an offering to the god, but the city this time
 20  2,2 |          of the cult of the bright god, Mithras, and the ideas
 21  2,3 |           the nature of the Son of God had aroused heated discussions
 22  2,3 |           the famous temple of the god Serapis, the Serapeum, which
 23  2,3 |   unanimously implore our Merciful God that He increase the days
 24  2,4 |          that Jesus Christ is both God and man. But this decision
 25  2,4 |        Mary was not the “Mother of God” but the “Mother of Christ,”
 26  2,5 |             Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts”) be chanted with
 27  2,5 |           for us,” (that is, “Holy God, Holy Strong One, Holy Immortal
 28  2,5 |            hymns, giving thanks to God and praising the emperor,
 29  2,5 |        voice as if it were that of God. And what I know and what
 30  2,5 |         new Moses destined to lead God’s people to freedom. In
 31  3,3 |         The emperor is undoubtedly God on earth and whoso raises
 32  3,4 |            proclaim triumphantly: “God, in his mercy, gave over
 33  3,5 |   Furthermore, he believed, it was God who bestowed upon the emperors
 34  3,5 |            under the governance of God to deliver to the students
 35  3,7 |         Christian empress, sent by God in difficult times to protect
 36  3,8 |         and an act of gratitude to God, who bestowed upon the emperor
 37  3,12|            and through the help of God the nations were unable
 38  3,13|       defend the cause of Almighty God and the cause of the Universal
 39  3,13|    Byzantine throne:~ ~Glory be to God in the highest… Let the
 40  3,16|           the temple: “Glory be to God who deemed me worthy of
 41  4,1 |            period of the “Peace of God,” an observance which more
 42  4,1 |   strengthened the conviction that God had sent him to save His
 43  4,1 |    polytheism. The cult of an only God — Allah — was the basis
 44  4,1 |    complete dependence of man upon God and a blind resignation
 45  4,1 |         strictly monotheistic, and God is considered unlimited
 46  4,1 |       resignation or submission to God,” and the followers of Islam
 47  4,1 |          distinct idea of a single God, Allah. The statement “There
 48  4,1 |       statement “There is only one God and Muhammed is his apostle”
 49  4,1 |          his teaching the mercy of God, the repentance of sinners,
 50  4,1 |     profession of faith in an only God, Allah, and his prophet,
 51  4,1 |        Koran states directly that “God will not force anyone beyond
 52  4,1 |         known. The Koran speaks of God’s tolerance of other faiths; “
 53  5,3 |            visited by the wrath of God for becoming transgressors
 54  5,5 |            laws as an adversary of God and an enemy of the doctrines
 55  5,6 |          pious Augustus crowned by God, to the Great and Peace-giving,
 56  5,6 |           upon the dogma of a sole God, since only in his capacity
 57  5,6 |            only in his capacity of God’s temporary deputy could
 58  5,7 |            of faith and worship of God was left by the government
 59  5,8 |         Incarnation of the Word of God.”[176] From the historical
 60  6,2 |           would have entered, with God’s help, the sacred city
 61  6,2 |            Jerusalem and prayed to God in the Holy Places.”[26]
 62  6,7 |      received by the providence of God manifested in the intercession
 63  6,7 |          himself to the service of God.[92] The Byzantine historian,
 64  6,7 | indomitably firm in his prayers to God and his nocturnal devotions;
 65  6,7 |          and hospitals but also to God himself,”[97] He restored
 66  6,7 |            the Empire the anger of God when, toward the end of
 67  6,8 |         Eudocia “regarded him as a God.”[181] Historians still
 68  7,1 |            people, was dearer than God himself,” or, at least, “
 69  7,1 |            unless speedy help from God and from the faithful Latin
 70  7,1 |        rise against the enemies of God and to reach the Holy Sepulchre. “
 71  7,1 |          cries of “Deus lo volt” (“God wills it” or “It is the
 72  7,1 |          it” or “It is the will of God”) the throngs rushed to
 73  7,1 |         Rise to help the people of God … take vengeance for such
 74  7,1 |      imperial power granted him by God; he would not admit that
 75  7,1 |           an icon of the Mother of God, of Ephesus. It should not
 76  7,2 |  unrestricted power granted him by God, could not, for this reason
 77  7,3 |            and say, “Where is your God who can free from our hands
 78  7,3 |        accomplished? Where is your God? Let Him rise and help you!
 79  7,3 |           country “to the glory of God and the Holy Roman Church
 80  7,3 |           himself “by the Grace of God the Emperor of Constantinople
 81  7,4 |        difference in power between God and emperor; kings are allowed
 82  7,4 |  distinction that which belongs to God along with their own possessions,
 83  7,4 |            the imperial power from God, and between God and them
 84  7,4 |        power from God, and between God and them is no difference.”
 85  7,4 |    infallible judges of matters of God and man.” This opinion was
 86  7,4 |            as an act of worship to God.” Their glory is that, like
 87  7,4 |          declare the compliance of God with the sack of Constantinople
 88  7,4 |          its renown proclaims. May God, in His grace and generosity,
 89  7,4 |           he wrote of his memory: “God has shown in life no one
 90  8,2 |        power was granted to him by God. “My Imperial Majesty has
 91  8,2 |           Roman state; the Will of God has laid upon me the power…”
 92  8,2 |           laid upon me the power…” God had granted Theodore for
 93  8,7 |       Emperor: “Theodore in Christ God Basileus and Autocrat of
 94  8,9 |            I, John Asen, in Christ God the faithful Tsar and Autocrat
 95  8,10|           unlimited and granted by God and comprehending supreme
 96  8,13|       gather together the flock of God and protect it from hostile
 97  8,13|           Michael “by the mercy of God” should recover them, were
 98  8,14|           were producing nausea in God himself,” of a hope to go
 99  8,16|       highest official ordained by God to care for the people subject
100  9,1 |      Romans, which, by the will of God, was under the power of
101  9,1 |        granted them by the will of God through us.” These are the
102  9,3 |           himself “by the Grace of God the King of Sicily and Albania” (
103  9,3 |          therefore, if I said that God who granted freedom to them,
104  9,4 |           himself “by the grace of God the King of Sicily and Albania.”
105  9,5 |         red ink “Stephen in Christ God the faithful Kral and autocrat
106  9,7 |          seek aid against them. My God! What dost thou, ancient
107  9,7 |           if the Blessed Mother of God had not preserved it.”[183]
108  9,7 |      intercession of the Mother of God, the constant protectress
109  9,9 |          of the “City protected by God,” Constantinople, left a
110  9,9 |            Leonard, convinced that God had punished Byzantium for
111  9,9 |           the name of the Lord our God and Saviour, and, secondly,
112  9,9 |         granted us by the power of God.”[220] Constantine ended
113  9,9 |         hope that, with the aid of God, we shall avoid the just
114  9,9 |            just punishment sent by God.”[221] In the evening of
115  9,12|           of the city protected by God, Constantinople,”[266] which
116  9,13|    indivisible and full unity with God, and who chose as the only
117  9,13|            a life pure and near to God.”[268] Athos, which had
118  9,13|     knowledge and contemplation of God, and the attainment of unity
119  9,13|         immediate intercourse with God, in which there exist no
120  9,13| contemplation—the contemplation of God one and alone, the perfect
121  9,13|       ecstasy, a mystic unity with God, deification (apotheosis;
122  9,13|            in the contemplation of God. Therefore he who has reached
123  9,13|            hesychia is the love of God from soul, heart, and mind,
124  9,13|      abundant tears, the memory of God and death, and the constant
125  9,13|          mercy upon me; oh, Son of God, help me.” The consequence
126  9,13|         moral strife in union with God. In those sad times monastic