More passages than he noticed, though limited to the ante-Chrysostom period, are referred to in the companion volume[529].

The portentous number of mentions by Gregory of Nyssa escaped me, though I knew that there were several.

Such repetitions of a phrase could only be admitted into my calculation in a restricted and representative number.

Indeed, I often quoted at least on our side less than the real number of such reiterations occurring in one passage, because in course of repetition they came to assume for such a purpose a parrot-like value.
But the most important part of the Dean's paper is found in his account of the origin of the expression.

This inference is strongly confirmed by the employment of it in the Arian controversy.