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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... sacred stones ( the Botylia ) , which were thought either to have fallen from heaven , or were sanctified by immemorial reverence . In the Oriental pastoral tribes , Tsabaism , " the simpler worship of the heavenly bodies , in general ...
... sacred stones ( the Botylia ) , which were thought either to have fallen from heaven , or were sanctified by immemorial reverence . In the Oriental pastoral tribes , Tsabaism , " the simpler worship of the heavenly bodies , in general ...
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... sacred books . But the genius of the people had already assumed its bias : few , yet still some , vestiges remain in Homer of the earlier theogonic fables . Conscious , as it were , and prophetic Mr. Mill ( Hist . of India ) , among the ...
... sacred books . But the genius of the people had already assumed its bias : few , yet still some , vestiges remain in Homer of the earlier theogonic fables . Conscious , as it were , and prophetic Mr. Mill ( Hist . of India ) , among the ...
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... sacred secret of the divine Unity , preserved inviolate , though sometimes under the most adverse circum- stances , and , as it were , perpetually hovering on the verge of extinction , in one narrow district of the world , Religion of ...
... sacred secret of the divine Unity , preserved inviolate , though sometimes under the most adverse circum- stances , and , as it were , perpetually hovering on the verge of extinction , in one narrow district of the world , Religion of ...
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... sacred Judaism . records had preserved in its original simplicity the notion of the Divine Power ; the pregnant defini- tions of the one great self - existing Being , the magnifi- cent poetical amplifications of his might and providence ...
... sacred Judaism . records had preserved in its original simplicity the notion of the Divine Power ; the pregnant defini- tions of the one great self - existing Being , the magnifi- cent poetical amplifications of his might and providence ...
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... sacred to the deified Julius ( Divo Julio ) . This may be 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 ...
... sacred to the deified Julius ( Divo Julio ) . This may be 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 ...
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