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- ↑ Summa Universae Theologiae Christianae secundum Unitarios XXVIII .. Si Mariae Virginis Filius dei potest, ob nativitatem ex illa, quidni etiam Dei, quandoquidem alium Patrem non habuit praeter Deum, sicut Adam Luc III
