ReduceNone but believers in Christ can be convicted of sin, for no others can know the law which convicts of sin ReduceWhat the precise nature of these rites was, we are not told; but inasmuch as the Roman documents designate thereby the term lustratio, there can scarcely be room for doubt that it m
up!%u201CThe causes of the corruptions were almost wholly contained in the established opinions of the heathen world, and especially the philosophical part of it; so that when those heathens embraced Christianity, they mixed their former tenets and prejudices with it... up!%u201CThere was no city in
Survey!%u201CRivers as sources of fertility and purification were at an early date invested with a sacred character Survey!The pagano-Christian theory of baptism and baptismal regeneration, variously expressed, is found in Methodius, The Banquet of the Ten Virgins, chapter vi; in Clement of Alexandr
MeetMaurer%u2019s work as follows: MeetThe %u201CChristian emperors,%u201D from Constantine to Gratian (312-383), retained the title of %u201CPontifex Maximus.%u201D The visiting of heathen temples for religious purposes, and the performance of heathen rites in private, were not prohibited by imperi
JewelsLearn then, my children, concerning all things richly, that Abraham, the first who enjoined circumcision, looking forward in spirit to Jesus, practised that rite, having received the mysteries of the three letters JewelsHe retains his family ties, his philosophy, his Platonism, his rationalism
newThe facts connected with His life and the memory of His teachings formed the soil in which Christianity had its earliest roots newIt is no longer ordinary water, such as that wherein the eunuch or Cornelius and his friends were baptized; but, by the power of charms, it has become an ecclesiastica
ExpectedThe opinion of Simon Magus, a representative Gnostic, concerning baptism is expressed by King thus: ExpectedOn crossing any water after dark it is thought advisable to spit three times, as a safeguard against their evil influences. It is also thought to be dangerous to draw water from a well
unaccountedIt was therefore a foregone necessity that when Christianity grew strong enough to be entitled to recognition rather than persecution, it should be adopted by the state, and further commingled with the prevailing sun-worship unaccounted%u201CIt is true, doubtless, that there is not a fast
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