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Lucifer of Cagliari

d. A.D. 371
Lucifer of Cagliari · d. A.D. 371 A.D. 371
“It was he who was and is and always shall be in the form of the Father, the true Son, immutable and unchangeable because he is God and the all-powerful Son of the Almighty, who nonetheless deigned to lower himself for our salvation, so that he might cause us to rise even as we lay prostrate.”
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