The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1867 - Church history |
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... Persian , at once vanished away . On the same principle , and with equal sagacity , Rome , in this as in other respects , aspired to enslave the mind of those nations which had been prostrated by her arms . The gods of the subject ...
... Persian , at once vanished away . On the same principle , and with equal sagacity , Rome , in this as in other respects , aspired to enslave the mind of those nations which had been prostrated by her arms . The gods of the subject ...
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... Persia the Magian order retained or acquired something like a pure theism , in which the Supreme Deity was represented under the symbol of the primal uncreated fire ; and there Nature - worship , under the form of the two conflicting ...
... Persia the Magian order retained or acquired something like a pure theism , in which the Supreme Deity was represented under the symbol of the primal uncreated fire ; and there Nature - worship , under the form of the two conflicting ...
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... Persians . Yet even here likewise is found the great indelible distinc- tion between the religion of the ancient and of the modern world ; the characteristic , which besides the general practice of propitiating the Deity , usually by ...
... Persians . Yet even here likewise is found the great indelible distinc- tion between the religion of the ancient and of the modern world ; the characteristic , which besides the general practice of propitiating the Deity , usually by ...
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... Persia , were offered , in obedience to an oracle , to Bacchus Omestes . The bloodstained altar of Diana of Tauris was placed by the tragedians in a barbarous region . Prisoners were sometimes slain on the tombs of warriors in much ...
... Persia , were offered , in obedience to an oracle , to Bacchus Omestes . The bloodstained altar of Diana of Tauris was placed by the tragedians in a barbarous region . Prisoners were sometimes slain on the tombs of warriors in much ...
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... Persian monarchy , excepting from some rather sus- picious stories in Josephus , we hear less than we might expect of this race of Jews . But as we approach the • Even as early as the reign of Antiochus the Great , certain Jews had ...
... Persian monarchy , excepting from some rather sus- picious stories in Josephus , we hear less than we might expect of this race of Jews . But as we approach the • Even as early as the reign of Antiochus the Great , certain Jews had ...
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