Typical.—The key of the cipher. Veri adoratores.—Ecce agnus Dei qui tollit peccata mundi. 680
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Veri adoratores meaning true worshipers from John iv, 23: But the hour is coming, and it is now, when true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
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Ecce agnus etc. meaning Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world from John i, 29: as John saw Jesus coming toward him.Blaise Pascal
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Ante agnus offerebatur, offerebatur et vitulus, nunc Christus offertur...et offert se ipse quasi sacerdos, ut peccata nostra dimittat. Hic in imagine, ibi in veritate, ubi apud Patrem pro nobis quasi advocatus intervenit.
Ambrose
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.
Colin Wilson
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
Bertrand Russell
Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter.
Girolamo Savonarola
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi — the least omission may distort the whole picture.
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
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