The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1884 - Christianity |
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... admitted within the walls of the conqueror , as though to render their allegiance , and rank themselves in peaceful subordination under the supreme divinity of the Roman Gradivus , or the Jupiter of the Capitol ; till , at length , they ...
... admitted within the walls of the conqueror , as though to render their allegiance , and rank themselves in peaceful subordination under the supreme divinity of the Roman Gradivus , or the Jupiter of the Capitol ; till , at length , they ...
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... admitted within its pale , on equal tianity . terms , all ranks and all races . It addressed mankind as one brotherhood , sprung from one common progenitor , and raised to immortality by one Redeemer . In this respect Christianity might ...
... admitted within its pale , on equal tianity . terms , all ranks and all races . It addressed mankind as one brotherhood , sprung from one common progenitor , and raised to immortality by one Redeemer . In this respect Christianity might ...
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... admitted ; whilst the passing of these myths in their second stage through the minds of poets explains their endless diversity , their departure from their original meaning , and the perpetual loss of the key to their in- terpretation ...
... admitted ; whilst the passing of these myths in their second stage through the minds of poets explains their endless diversity , their departure from their original meaning , and the perpetual loss of the key to their in- terpretation ...
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... admitted no aristocratic elysium of heroes and demi - gods , like that of the early Greeks ; " it sepa- whether a poor man was thought worthy of any place in his dwellings , unless he came from the field of battle in the bloody train of ...
... admitted no aristocratic elysium of heroes and demi - gods , like that of the early Greeks ; " it sepa- whether a poor man was thought worthy of any place in his dwellings , unless he came from the field of battle in the bloody train of ...
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... admitted into the Christian system ; yet the indelible difference between the two periods remained . A higher sense and mean- ing was infused into these forms ; God was considered in his moral rather than his physical attributes — as ...
... admitted into the Christian system ; yet the indelible difference between the two periods remained . A higher sense and mean- ing was infused into these forms ; God was considered in his moral rather than his physical attributes — as ...
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