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76,280Before considering the immediate contact of pagan water-worship with early Christianity, it is necessary to note its existence outside of the Orient and Egypt. 76,280But the whole earth, as the Scripture says, was inundated, and the water rose in height fifteen cubits above all the mountains;
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forCorrupting Influence of Pagan Water-Worship. forWhen allegorical methods had shorn the Bible of authority, and pushed God, as represented in his word, far away from men, the next important step was to corrupt the developing Church by a false standard of membership, thus planting a sure seed of de
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