JV%u201CIn popular customs, and even in religious institutions, these things are as plainly perceived to-day as when Adonis and Astarte were the Gods of the former world JV1 JVIt was neither more nor less than saying that the Holy Ghost incarnate, in deep tribulation, entered these waters, and that
UnoHis interpretations of Scripture and his religious opinions are all strongly colored by this anti-Jewish spirit UnoIt was a κ?θαρσι?, a λουτρ?ν, a %u201Claver of regeneration.%u201D Certain forms of abstinence were imposed; they h
Americaon Saturday afternoon before sunset, at which time the tomb was empty. AmericaThe selection of the particular victim proves this ceremony in connection with the Mithraic, which latter, as Justin says, had a %u2018baptism for the remission of Sins%u2019; and the Bull being in that religion the
59%Turning to the earlier Church fathers, who formulated much which has come to us as Christian doctrine, we find the pagan idea of baptism repeated in all its essential characteristics 59%After an interval of two days still more sacrifices, shows, and %u201Cprocessions%u201D followed 59%The venerat
IIJS!The skill thus acquired is exhibited by the accuracy of their aim IIJS!Four flights of steps on the four sides lead to the water, the disgusting foulness of which, in the estimation of countless pilgrims, vastly enhances its efficacy for the removal of sin IIJS!After having prayed, he threw the
AdvancesOne proof text is taken from the Bible, and the next from Homer or Hesiod, and both alike are used by an allegorical exegesis to support the ready-made creations of the author%u2019s fancy Advances%u2018Is it not because you consider yourselves dirtier than any filth?%u2019 And Theophylactus
Congress%u201CAt least every person who came to the solemn sacrifices was purified by water CongressSome writers claim that the last clause intends to state that Christ taught His disciples when He first appeared to them, what Justin had written concerning the Sunday; but one has only to read Justin
VegasWater from the Ganges is kept in the temples, and when the people are dying they often send from a great distance to obtain some of it VegasThey measure the early centuries by their own VegasAugustine, the master mind of the fifth century, whose influence yet abounds in the doctrines of both Ca
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