The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 2John Murray, 1840 |
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according Acts ancient anity Antioch Apostle appears apud Asia Asiatic authority barbarous Basilides bishops BOOK Cæsar Carthage Cerinthus CHAP character Chris Christ Christian Christian community church civil Commodus Constan Constantine Corinth Cyprian dæmons dangerous death Deity Demiurge dignity Dioclesian divine doctrines Donatists doubt East Eastern edict Egypt Emperor empire enemies Ephesus Euseb Eusebius faith father favour Galerius Gnosticism gods Gospel Greek Hadrian Heathen Hist honour hostile human imperial influence Irenæus Jesus Jewish Jews Judaism Licinius mankind Marcion martyrdom Maxentius Maximin ment mind moral Nero Nicomedia opinions Oriental Paganism party passions Paul peace perhaps period persecution philosophic Phrygia Pleroma Polytheism popular presbyters primal principle probably provinces pure reign religion religious rescript rites Roman Rome sacred sacrifice sect sentiments Severus spirit sufferings superstition synagogue Syrian temples tenets Tertullian Theodoret tian tianity tion Trajan victims viii whole worship καὶ
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Page 19 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 187 - O Lord God Almighty, the Father of Thy beloved and blessed Son Jesus Christ, by whom we have received the knowledge of Thee, the God of angels and powers, and of every creature, and of the whole race of the righteous who live...
Page 6 - I mean, as unendowed with miraculous powers, having adopted their itinerant system of teaching from human motives, and for human purposes alone. As they pass along to the remote and obscure quarter, where they expect to meet with precarious hospitality among their countrymen, they survey the strength of the established religion, which it is their avowed purpose to overthrow. Every where they behold temples, on which the utmost extravagance of expenditure has been lavished by succeeding generations...
Page 15 - Though they affect at first (probably the philosophic part of his hearers) to treat him as an idle " babbler," and others (the vulgar, alarmed for the honour of their deities) supposed that he was about to introduce some new religious worship which might endanger the supremacy of their own tutelar divinities, he is conveyed, not without respect, to a still more public and commodious place, from whence he may explain his doctrines to a numerous assembly without disturbance. On the Areopagus the Christian...
Page 365 - Emperor. The pasquinade which compared his days to those of Nero was affixed to the gates of the palace ; and so galling was the insolence of the populace, that the Emperor is reported to have consulted his brothers on the expediency of calling out his guards for a general massacre. Milder councils prevailed; and Constantine took the more tardy, but more deep-felt revenge, of transferring the seat of empire from the banks of the Tiber to the shores of the Bosphorus. BOOK III. CHAPTER III. FOUNDATION...
Page 17 - It is impossible not to examine with the utmost interest the whole course of this (if we consider its remote consequences, and suppose it the first full and public argument of Christianity against the heathen religion and philosophy) perhaps the most extensively and permanently effective oration ever uttered by man.
Page 220 - Thus spake my father, kissing my hands in his fondness, and throwing himself at my feet ; and in his tears he called me not his daughter, but his mistress (domina). And I was grieved for the grey hairs of my father, because he alone of all...
Page 252 - Thascius Cyprian, thou hast lived long in thy impiety, and assembled around thee many men involved in the same wicked conspiracy. Thou hast shown thyself an enemy alike to the gods and the laws of the empire; the pious and sacred Emperors have in vain endeavoured to recall thee to the worship of thy ancestors. Since, then, thou hast been the chief author and leader of these most guilty practices, thou shalt be an example to those whom thou hast deluded to thy unlawful assemblies. Thou must expiate...
Page 6 - Ephesus, are pledged to the support of that to which they owe their maintenance. They pass a magnificent theatre, on the splendour and success of which the popularity of the existing authorities mainly depends ; and in which the serious exhibitions are essentially religious, the lighter as intimately connected with the indulgence of the baser passions. They behold another public building, where even worse feelings — the cruel and the sanguinary — are pampered by the...
Page 252 - Execute your orders," answered Cyprian ; " the case admits of no consideration." Galerius consulted with his Council, and then reluctantly J delivered his sentence. " Thascius Cyprian, thou hast lived long in thy impiety, and assembled around thee many men involved in the same wicked conspiracy. Thou hast shown thyself an enemy alike to the gods and the laws of the empire; the pious and sacred Emperors have in vain endeavoured to recall thee to the worship of thy ancestors. Since, then, thou hast...