The Causes of the Corruption of ChristianityJackson and Walford, 1852 - 316 Seiten |
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Seite 223 - Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized into Moses iu the cloud and in the sea.
Seite 37 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Seite 293 - fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such an one, no not to eat."* This
Seite 276 - who commanded the light to shine out of darkness would shine into our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of his glory, as it shines in the face of Jesus Christ;
Seite 259 - Fortuna Virilis, by Mary the Egyptian ; that of Saturn (where the public treasure was anciently kept) by St. Adrian; that of Romulus and Remus, in the Via Sacra, by two other brothers, Cosmas and Damianus ; that of Antonine the Godly by Laurence the Saint. "At the foot of Mount Palatin, in the way between the Forum and
Seite 181 - that though in others there were, indeed, certain notions conveyed under the outward terms, according to their literal force and import, yet it was not in these that the true meaning of the sacred writers was to be sought, but in a mysterious and hidden sense, arising from the nature of the things themselves. This hidden
Seite 165 - He who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from Him who is the Author of Nature," says that Father, " may well expect to find the same
Seite 288 - that in those times, the religion of the Greeks and Romans differed very little in its external appearance from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual, gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers,
Seite 161 - transported over the seas, was endowed with life and sentiment, and divine power. For the truth of this prodigy he appeals to the public monuments of the city ; and censures, with some acrimony, the sickly and affected taste of those men who impertinently derided the sacred
Seite 270 - was heretofore dedicated to Cybele. It was called 'Hilaria,' says Macrobius, 'on account of the joy occasioned by the arrival of the equinox, when the light was about to exceed the darkness in duration :' and from the same author, as well as from Lampridius, it appears that it was a festival