For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
AD 550
But those in the city I tried to gather together with all the greater zeal, as if I were present with them; for I was absent indeed in the body, as I said,