SkeletonJohn%u2019s Day would mean the festive middle of the year, when the sun turns, and there might be many customs connected with it SkeletonAnd so there is incumbent on us a necessity, binding us, since we have premised that a new law was predicted by the prophets, and that not such as had been
giftHoly Water. giftBorne by yoked dragons through the liquid air, giftThe animistic conception that the gods might be employed as instruments for securing practical advantages, lies at the basis of the whole Roman cultus giftRev giftThe heathen philosophers, Hesiod, Plato, and Apuleius, all thus sp
Collection!%u201CEarlier writers, such as Origen or Clement of Alexandria, frequently expounded the word of God in the way in which Neo-Platonists explained the pagan mythology%u2014that is, they regard it as an allegory from which they extract whatever meaning happens to be most agreeable to themse
toCertain goddesses which were prominent in the Northern European mythologies, especially Nerthus and Holda, were closely connected with water-worship toThe earliest Christian congregations were communities for holy living, upon the ground of a mutual faith in Christ to800, 801 toIt was a system of
RosterWhen the fountain of formative Christianity was thus widely and early corrupted, what wonder that the banks of the stream are covered with pagan débris, and that the waters are yet turbid from its sediment? RosterMen who did not have clear and correct views of the Bible could not impart
proofRoom 100, Bible House, proofFor when Moses had the rod in his hands he led your nation through the sea proof%u201CIn a spring near Nogent men and women bathed on St proofRoman law establishes the fact that the eighth day after birth for girls, and the ninth for boys was a Dies lustricus%u2014th
PopularityBut if ye refuse and rebel, the sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.%u2019 And for this [rite] we have learned from the apostles this reason PopularityBreadth enough, too, in morality; no trembling fear of pollution, no anxious care to exclude the influence of
ExpoOn this account the apostles and priests of this creed have been styled %u201CNaaseni,%u201D from %u201CNaas%u201D the Hebrew word for serpent; but subsequently they entitled themselves %u201CThe Gnostics,%u201D because they alone understood the deep things of religion ExpoAnother instance is fo
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