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 | | In 325 the Christian emperor, Constantine, called the Council of Nicaea with the purpose of resolving the dispute between the Arian and Orthodox Christians on the divine status of the Son. | | | Christians were required to pay heavier taxes than the Muslims, to wear a distinctive dress, were disallowed from undertaking missionary work, from establishing new churches, from marrying Muslim women or serving in the army. | | | Between the 16th and 19th centuries Alexandria and, with it, the Christian church in Egypt was allowed to decline. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/christ/east/eastessay.html
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| | Eastern Catholic |
| | Eastern Catholic Churches are groups of Christians whose traditions are based on the style of Constantinople but are in union with the church of Rome. | | | The unfortunate Eastern Schism or the breaking away of the Eastern Church from the Pope, the successor of St. Peter and Vicar of Christ on earth, started under the Greek patriarch Photius of Constantinople in 879, and was consummated by his distant successor Cerularious, also patriarch of Constantinople, in 1054. | | | The Eastern Christians are most often called "Greek" because of the Greek empires in the eastern Mediterranean, but a more accurate term would be Byzantine Christians since their style of worship was patterned after the church at Byzantium. |
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http://www.melkite.org/eastern.htm
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | Eastern Christianity was, and still is, a way of worship and on that basis a way of life and a way of belief. | | | Eastern Christians and the followers of the Prophet Muhammad exerted influence on one another in intellectual, philosophical, scientific, and even theological matters. | | | The critical-historical method of studying the Bible, which began in the 17th century, seemed to threaten the authority of Scripture, and the rationalism of the Enlightenment was condemned as a source of religious indifference and anticlericalism. |
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http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/religion/christianity.html
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| | Cornerstone 17 - Eastern Christianity: Development across the two millennia - Maroun Lahham |
| | The Eastern Church lived the mystery of this communion by focusing on the unity which is based on the one faith and the same sacraments. | | | While the Christian Church is one and the same at all times and places, it is distinguished in the East as being a mystery after the model of the Trinity, one that combines unity of faith with diversity. | | | One of the temptations that the Eastern Churches fell into, because of their strong attachment to the "sanctity"of tradition, is their belief that the Christian faith and tradition give the believer a human nature and a culture which is different from that of the non-baptized. |
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http://www.sabeel.org/old/news/newslt17/lahham.htm
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| | Christianity |
| | Christianity is a religion based upon the belief that the Bible contains a divine message and that Jesus (who died between 25 and 40 CE) represents a new orientation in the relationship between man and God. | | | It was often in the clash with kings and rulers, as well as with other religions (especially Islam) that many Christians faced persecution, and had to stand up for their beliefs. | | | The many Christian churches in the region have between 14 and 20 million adherents. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/christia.htm
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| | FT December 2002: Celibacy in Context |
| | Eastern Christianity insists that both marriage and celibacy are necessary for a healthy Church. | | | What does not seem to be widely understood is that the Eastern Churches have very distinct theological, liturgical, and spiritual cultures in which the practice of ordaining married men to the priesthood (but not to the episcopate) must be understood. | | | Unless all Christians accept their vocation to live the asceticism of celibacy within their own lives it is pointless to expect a small group of "elite" Christians to live up to this ideal. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0212/opinion/davies.html
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| | Eastern Orthodox Christianity - ReligionFacts |
| | The religious authority for Orthodox Christianity is not the Pope as in Catholicism, nor the individual Christian with his Bible as in Protestantism, but the scriptures as interpreted by the seven ecumenical councils of the church. | | | For Eastern Christians, both the Spirit and the Son have their origin in the Father. | | | For in those churches, which are distinguished by their venerable antiquity, there is clearly evident the tradition which has come from the Apostles through the Fathers and which is part of the divinely revealed, undivided heritage of the Universal Church. |
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http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/orthodoxy.htm
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| | Published in the Encyclopedia of Monasticism, Fitzroy Dearborn publishers (Chicago:2000), vol |
| | This is the original model for the sainted elder, the geron or staretz, of Eastern Christian literature, from Athanasius of Alexandria's portrait of the "father of monks" in The Life of Anthony, to Dostoyevsky's Staretz Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov. | | | Between the New Testament era and the fourth century, pre-Nicene Christianity highlights as heroes and exemplars of the Faith both the martyr and the ascetic, for example in the second century Shepherd of Hermas, where martyrs and virgins stand, respectively, at the right and left hand of Christ enthroned. | | | By the end of the fourth century, the main lines of Eastern Christian spirituality and theology are set in the forms they possess to the present day. |
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http://www.marquette.edu/maqom/Spirituality
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| | Bat Yeor on Dhimmitude on National Review Online |
| | Christianity descends from Islam, the first religion of all humanity (din al-fitra). | | | Christians would seem to be the most familiar group, closer to Westerners by proximity, culture, religion, and subject to the same status under Islam as the Jews, the other ahl al-Khitab, "people of the Book" — the Bible. | | | Exegetes interpret the destruction of symbols attached to Christianity — the cross and the pig — as the extinction of that religion; the suppression of the jizya means that Islam has become the only religion; and the abundance of wealth refers to the booty taken from infidels. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-batyeor091803.asp
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| | Syriac Orthodox Church History |
| | The Syriac Orthodox Church is one of the most ancient Christian Churches tracing its roots to the Church of Antioch. | | | The Syriac Orthodox community there was partly a result of the Persian abduction of the Syrian population during the wars with Byzantium and forced settlement on Persian territory and partly of Christians in Persia who reacted against political imposition of the doctrines of the Church of the East. | | | He was elected by the eastern bishops, just as the Patriarch was elected by those of the west, but was ordained by the Patriarch. |
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http://sor.cua.edu/History
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| | HNRS 81 Lec 1 Eastern Christianity in Comparative Perspective |
| | Week 1 (Jan. 7/9): Introduction: early Christianity; community and organization; early doctrinal disputes; the institutionalization of Christianity as a religion in the Roman empire; the rise of monasticism and its implications for further developments in the church; the first Ecumenical Councils and the establishment of a common creed. | | | Week 2 (Jan 14/16): the beginnings of a divergence between Eastern and Western Christian outlooks: the Ecumenical Councils (continued); the separation of the Monophysite and Nestorian churches from the Orthodox; the building of a multi-cultural theistic state and the iconoclastic controversy; the Great Schism; the flowering of Byzantine theology. | | | History: the emergence and development of the major Eastern churches, primarily Eastern Orthodox, but with excursus on some of the other Oriental churches of the Monophysite and Nestorian traditions. |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/syllabi/classes/hnrs81_lec1_02w/Syllabus.cfm
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| | Nestorian Christianity came early to Hira, where a monastery was built in A.D. A bishop is recorded in the same year. | | | In the land of Saba -present-day Yemen- once the hub of Arabian civilization, it had arrived from Abyssinia and for a time during the preceding century had been the religion of the state, until the country was overrun by the Persians. | | | It was natural, therefore, that the teaching and the worship of Christ spread first in his homeland, i.e., in Palestine, and extended slowly to the neighboring countries. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/ORIGARAB.TXT
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| | Eastern Christian Mysticism |
| | Non-sectarian, often suppressed, this lay mystical tradition is the Christian equivalent of Sufism in Islam, and of Kabbalah in Judaism. | | | Lossky, Vladimir The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. | | | Seraphim of Sarov The Spiritual Instructions of St. Seraphim of Sarov, a Spirit Baptizer in the Eastern Christian Tradition. |
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| | So most eastern religions are pantheistic, believing that “God is all and all is God.” Christianity, on the other hand, teaches that man is a special creation and is very distinct from nature. | | | On Christianity and eastern religions, that’s the CRI Perspective. | | | On the subject of Christianity and eastern religions, please consult Christianity and World Religions (IVP) by Sir Norman Anderson (SB816/$14). |
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http://www.equip.org/store/details.asp?SKU=CP0213
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| | Christianity -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Among the three great monotheistic religions, Christianity has a place apart, because of the trinitarian creed of this religion in its classic forms, in contradistinction to the unitarian creed of Judaism and Islam. | | | The church and the Byzantine, or Eastern, Empire | | | Revivalism in the 20th century is usually associated with Protestant Christianity, especially its fundamentalist and Pentecostal branches. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9105945
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| | Eastern Christianity |
| | Old Church Slavonic is the liturgical language of the Russian and Eastern European Orthodox Christians. | | | Numbering in excess of 2500 manuscripts, this collection is the object of a joint initiative between USEK and BYU which began in 2003. | | | Extending over a two year period, the project resulted in the digitizing of 614 Christian Arabic manuscripts. |
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http://cpart.byu.edu/easternchristianity.php
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| | Gorgias Press - Eastern Christianity |
| | The Holy Eastern Church is the most ancient and conservative of Christian communities, the august parent whence all other Churches, even Rome herself, derive their origin, their constitution, and their rites. | | | A popularly-written study of the biblical roots of the Eastern Orthodox Church’s mystical understanding of the knowledge of God, which firmly establishes the revealed nature of its theology and shows how its mysticism is based upon the teaching of St John, and St Paul. | | | A History of the Holy Eastern Church, The Patriarchate of Antioch |
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http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/showcategory.aspx?categoryid=4&show=all
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| | Byzantine Christianity: A Wisdom Path |
| | Christianity is not the property of the loud, divisive hate-mongers who have pretended to exclusively represent the Gospel of The Christ in North America and elsewhere. | | | In the older Byzantine Christian adaptation, coming from the most ancient areas of the Celtic peoples' origins, the use of an Iconostas, and the veneration and incensation of The Holy Table as the nexus of the living and the dead represent the same theology, inculturated differently. | | | Our goal here is to allow Byzantine and other Eastern Christian wisdom, both in the inner (esoteric) and outer (exoteric) realms, to take a rightful place in the rich diversity of the exciting spiritual awakening which is taking place all over the world as the new millennium approaches. |
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http://members.aol.com/theloego/byzantine
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| | The East European Religious Hist |
| | The observation that Eastern Europe has suffered a turbulent and tragic history over the last century is a truism that has significant bearing on the place of religion in the region. | | | In addition, Christians of Eastern Europe have practiced their faiths in a remarkably diverse environment. | | | At a time when religious history more generally is emerging as a dynamic subfield, specialists on Eastern Europe have remained largely in the secular realm. |
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| | Hymns from the Liturgical Tradition of the Orthodox Christian Church | | | < NB "The purpose of this website is to enable the visitor to re-discover and experience the beauty and deeper meaning of (Orthodox) Byzantine Icons, the visual and spiritual treasures of the Eastern Orthodox Church. | | | "The Orthodox Christian Education Commission is an agency of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in America. |
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http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/orthodox.htm
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| | Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism |
| | Christian Transmission of Greek Jewish Scriptures: A Methodological Probe (Robert Kraft). | | | A Testimony to Christianity as Transfiguration: The Macarian Homilies and Orthodox Spirituality | | | Practicing the Presence of God in John: Ritual Use of Scripture and the Eidos Theou in John 5:37 (Jonathan A. Draper). |
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http://www.marquette.edu/maqom
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| | Thanks for the words about Eastern Christianity |
| | Eastern Catholics are very welcoming, and enjoy every opportunity to explain how our one Faith is expressed differently through liturgy and custom. | | | I think Roman Catholics would do well to find the Eastern Catholic churches in their area and experience for themselves what is meant by the Universal Church. | | | Dragani when he says that the Eastern Churches, and especially the Byzantine Church (which I attend), offer solutions to the "traditional" versus "progressive" liturgical debate in the Roman Catholic Church. |
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http://www.theuniversityconcourse.com/VI,2,11-12-2000/st/DeLine.htm
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| | Orthodox Christian Links |
| | Khanya BBS - A dial-up Christian BBS in Pretoria, South Africa, open 24 hours, with discussion forums on mission, evangelism, Orthodox Christianity, missiology, African Independent Churches (AICs), church and society, politics, history, genealogy and much more. | | | Orthodox Archbishopric of Johannesburg and Pretoria - Orthodox Christian Church of South Africa Johannesburg Archdiocese E-mail to: | | | Orthodox Christian Network (OCNet) - The Orthodox Christian Network (OCNet) is a BBS network distributed in cooperation with FamilyNet, a Fido technology network. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/orthlink.htm
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| | Ex Oriente lux |
| | While one may not necessarily criticise Latin Christianity as harshly as many Orthodox (perpetuating the Schism), it seems that the living, sanctifying tradition of Orthodoxy offers the healing medicine the West needs to restore it: a holistic view of Tradition including liturgy, icons and a strong monastic life. | | | Also mentioned at one of the councils, Chalcedon, but not as a dogma with an anathema attached for rejecting it, is the belief that she is ever-virgin (that she gave birth to Christ but never had sex and never had any other children). | | | I’m afraid many modern Eastern Orthodox have let the side down on this, teaching something less than the unchanged Catholic faith. |
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| | Church House Bookshop Eastern Christianity |
| | Today, Christianity as a global religious community encompasses over a third of the entire world’s population, Eastern Christian communities represent approximately a fifth of that total number. | | | Eastern Christianity is looked at as a living tradition. | | | London's Christian Bookshop -- Browse our shelves at Church House, Westminster. |
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| | EASTERN CHRISTIANITY ON THE EVE OF ISLAM |
| | Strictly speaking, the Monophysites were those who did not accept the doctrine of the two natures (divine and human) in the one person of Jesus as it was formulated by the council of Chalcedon (451). | | | The western part of the Syrian (Monophysite) Church became entirely separated from the eastern (later Nestorian) Church. | | | By this time the Syrian Christian Church had split into several communities. |
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| | MER: The Plight of Eastern Christianity Under Islam Part 4 |
| | But all these matters were dealt with in a purely formal manner, i.e., within the study of specific doctrinal subjects such as the natures and wills of Christ, and the unity of the human and divine in his person. | | | Unfortunately, most of the churches in the West are not equipped to adequately inform their people about the plight of Eastern Christianity under Islam. | | | Regardless of the callous attitude of our various cultural institutions vis-à-vis Eastern Christianity, we members of the Universal Church of our Lord should not hesitate but bear witness, individually, and corporately, to the continual plight of Eastern Christians under Islam. |
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http://www.levant.info/MER_p007.htm
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| | Amazon.com: The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity: Books: Ken Parry,David J. Melling,Dimitri Brady,Sidney ... |
| | The Blackwell dictionary is concise and reasonably complete in subject coverage, carefully explaining distinctions among Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Church of the East, Eastern Catholicism, and dissident Eastern communities. | | | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Orthodoxy | | | Five academics from universities in Manchester, U.K., and the Catholic University of America have created a very useful dictionary on individual Eastern Christian traditions, important historical figures, overviews of major geographical areas, and definitions of specific theological topicsAterra incognita for the average Westerner. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0631232036?v=glance
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| | Links and Resources |
| | For those interested in the West Syriac Tradition of Eastern Christianity, which was an important source of prayer texts and music for the Byzantine tradition, visit the site of the Syrian Catholic Exarchate and see the "The Catholic Churches of the Middle East "site below. | | | An important organization that works to achieve the gospel standard in social justice causes, and has active contacts with all the Eastern Christian Churches is the Community of St. Egidio. | | | The 1999 Joint Paschal Message on Ecumenism from the Patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches to their flocks around the world is especially edifying (in French). |
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http://rumkatkilise.org/links.htm
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| | Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Chronology |
| | This was the beginning of what is variously known as the Uniate, Eastern Rite Catholic, or Greek Catholic Church. | | | Not knowing Leo IX had died, Humbert excommunicates Patriarch Michael in Leo's name, asserting that the Eastern church had removed "filioque" from the Creed. | | | 301: The Kingdom of Armenia becomes the first state to adopt Christianity as its official religion. |
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http://www.music.princeton.edu/~jeffery/byzchron.html
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| | Links to Related Sites |
| | This is an excellent source for general information on this most ancient of the Christian Churches! | | | It also has good information on the lives of saints in Egypt and the development of the Coptic Church. | | | It has music and loads of information on the Coptic Church, including a number of articles written by H.H. Pope Shenouda III. |
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http://www.innerlightproductions.com/links.htm
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| | Christian Tradition |
| | Section from Paul Flesher's Exploring Religions covers Christian cosmology, organization, religious life, worship, sacred literature, with a glossary, timeline and maps (U of Wyoming). | | | Yuri Koszarycz's award-winning overview offers a lucid conceptual framework for study of the development of the Catholic church through 20 centuries (Australian Catholic University). | | | [ General Resources ] [ Jesus and Christology ] [ Early Church ] [ Eastern Christianity ] [ Medieval Latin Christianity ] |
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http://virtualreligion.net/vri/xnity.html
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| | EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY AND STATE-BUILDING IN EASTERN EUROPE |
| | The course emphasizes the centrality of religion in shaping of national identities, as well as its role in the movements for national liberation in Eastern Europe. | | | It also focuses on the impact of Orthodox Christianity on art, architecture, music, and other aspects of cultural self-awareness and expression. | | | The course explores the role of the Eastern Orthodox faith in shaping the political culture of Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, and other nations of Eastern Europe. |
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http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/N/Petya.I.Nitzova-1/History3770sec002.html
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| | Eastern Orthodox Christianity |
| | http://www.oca.org If you want to see more details about Orthodox Christianity click here | | | The ist Bishop has been consecreated with the association of Parumala Mar Gregorios |
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| | Christianity -- Beliefnet.com |
| | ...it would make Christianity, witnessing to others, and anything related to that pointless. | | | Also, sinning would not matter, since we could do anything at all and still go to heaven." --jesusfreakgal |
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| | Beliefnet.com |
| | Please refer to the Beliefnet Community Rules of Conduct before posting. | | | Disputes or criticisms of Eastern Orthodoxy from non-members must be directed to the Debate Forum. | | | Post respectful questions in Learn About Eastern Orthodoxy and Beliefnet members will offer responses. |
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