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father
History a senator or patrician in ancient Rome

Father
1. God, esp when considered as the first person of the Christian Trinity
2. any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
3. a title used for Christian priests


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Origen, an early father of the church, once exclaimed: "If Jesus had good reason to weep over Jerusalem, he will have much better reason to weep over the church.
 
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