Mark 12:29

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And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

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Athanasius the Apostolic

AD 373

Since God is one, it is ridiculous to suppose that there could be still another “Lord” of heaven and earth in addition to the Lord who is one. There is simply no room for a second Lord of all, if the one true God fills all things in the compass of heaven and earth.

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Clement Of Rome

AD 99

But to those who were misled to imagine many gods, as the Scriptures say, He said, `Hear, O Israel; the Lord your God is one Lord.'"

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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258

This is the first commandment; land the second is like unto it: Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.". So also the Lord, in His Gospel, makes mention of the first and second commandment, saying, "Hear, O Israel, The Lord thy God is one God; "

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Literally the Lord our God is the only Lord: and this is the sense of the text in Deuteronomy vi. 4. The word in the original text, rendered by the term Lord, is the grand name JEHOVA, which signifies properly God, considered as the supreme Being, or the author of all existence.

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Hilary of Poitiers

AD 368

If sacred truth, when challenged by blasphemy, is met by silence, even that silence may be falsely construed as consent. This is what has happened in the case of the Arian assertion that because God is one, therefore his Son is not God…. The same one who authorizes us to confess the Son of God as God justifies us in proclaiming the one God.

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Ignatius of Antioch

AD 108

For Moses, the faithful servant of God, when he said, "The Lord thy God is one Lord". There is then one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no other besides Him, the only true

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The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375

"Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord."

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