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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... considered pernicious to the morals of the people , -in earlier times , the Dionysiac ; in later , the Isiac and Serapic rites.P citizens approved rather the conduct of Fabius Maximus , who left to the Ts- rentines their offended gods ...
... considered pernicious to the morals of the people , -in earlier times , the Dionysiac ; in later , the Isiac and Serapic rites.P citizens approved rather the conduct of Fabius Maximus , who left to the Ts- rentines their offended gods ...
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... considered as depravations of the same primitive form of worship ; whether the human mind is necessarily confined to a certain circle of religious notions ; whether the striking phenomena of the visible world , presented to the ...
... considered as depravations of the same primitive form of worship ; whether the human mind is necessarily confined to a certain circle of religious notions ; whether the striking phenomena of the visible world , presented to the ...
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... considered the parent . The primitive traditions and the local superstitions of the different races were moulded together in these songs , which , disseminated throughout Greece , gave a kind of federal character to the religion of ...
... considered the parent . The primitive traditions and the local superstitions of the different races were moulded together in these songs , which , disseminated throughout Greece , gave a kind of federal character to the religion of ...
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... considered as the great religious ceremony of the nation ; the god Ter- minus , who never receded , was , as it were , the deified ambition of Rome . At length Rome herself was imper- sonated and assumed her rank in heaven , as it were ...
... considered as the great religious ceremony of the nation ; the god Ter- minus , who never receded , was , as it were , the deified ambition of Rome . At length Rome herself was imper- sonated and assumed her rank in heaven , as it were ...
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... considered the sanguinary spirit of the age of proscriptions taking for once a more solemn and religious form . As to the libation of the blood of the gladiators ( see Tertullian , Apolog . c . 9 . Scorpiae . 7. Cyprian , De Spectaculis ...
... considered the sanguinary spirit of the age of proscriptions taking for once a more solemn and religious form . As to the libation of the blood of the gladiators ( see Tertullian , Apolog . c . 9 . Scorpiae . 7. Cyprian , De Spectaculis ...
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