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Friday, 2 December 2011

THE INCARNATION

'...the impossible union of spheres...'
TS Eliot in Matthew Lee Anderson, Earthen Vessels, p.21.

Posted by Ed Shaw at 08:43

Labels: INCARNATION, JESUS, TS Eliot

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