Julian the Emperor: Containing Gregory Nazianzen's Two Invectives and Libanius' Monody with Julian's Extant Theosophical WorksG. Bell and sons, 1888 - 288 pages |
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... the favour of the Christians , an important element of the provincial population . In the Mithraic religion ( even at that date predominating in the Roman world ) the Bull was the emblem of the Earth ; and the representation.
... the favour of the Christians , an important element of the provincial population . In the Mithraic religion ( even at that date predominating in the Roman world ) the Bull was the emblem of the Earth ; and the representation.
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... Earth ; and the representation of the Persian piercing the animal with his acinaces signified the penetration of the solar ray into the soil . The Two Stars are in antique art , the regular symbols of the Twin Dioscuri , whose ...
... Earth ; and the representation of the Persian piercing the animal with his acinaces signified the penetration of the solar ray into the soil . The Two Stars are in antique art , the regular symbols of the Twin Dioscuri , whose ...
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... earth , and that has spoken and meditated much unrighteousness against Heaven ! 2. " Hear , O heaven ! and give ear , O earth ; " for it is the fitting season for me to exclaim the same things with that loudest - voiced of all the ...
... earth , and that has spoken and meditated much unrighteousness against Heaven ! 2. " Hear , O heaven ! and give ear , O earth ; " for it is the fitting season for me to exclaim the same things with that loudest - voiced of all the ...
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... earth , forthwith springing up and peeping forth , upon a brief assault of the Evil One , and a slight blast of persecution , have withered up and died away . And those yet worse than they , and still more worthy of exclusion from the ...
... earth , forthwith springing up and peeping forth , upon a brief assault of the Evil One , and a slight blast of persecution , have withered up and died away . And those yet worse than they , and still more worthy of exclusion from the ...
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... earth might be adorned with more godly inhabitants ; Abraham called , and honoured with a son in spite of his age , as a pledge of another promised Seed , 1 This name must be wrong ; all these legends being quoted in chrono- logical ...
... earth might be adorned with more godly inhabitants ; Abraham called , and honoured with a son in spite of his age , as a pledge of another promised Seed , 1 This name must be wrong ; all these legends being quoted in chrono- logical ...
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