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[93] Paris.
[94] Pluto.
[95] [“Sacred hats and purple robes and incense fumes” have been associated with the same crimes, alas! in widely different relations.]
[96] [Caricatures of the Crucifixion are extant which show how greedily the heathen had accepted this profane idea.]
[97] [A premonition of the Labarum.]
[98] [As noted by Clement of Alexandria. See p. 535, Vol. II., and note.]
[99] Onocoites. If with Oehler, Onochoietes, the meaning is “asinarius sacerdos” (Oehler).
[100] Referring evidently to the Scriptures; and showing what the Bible was to the early Christians.
[101] [Kaye, p. 168. Remarks on natural religion.]
[102] [Though we are not by nature good, in our present estate; this is elsewhere demonstrated by Tertullian, as see cap. xviii.]
[103] [Kaye, p. 291. See Elucidation I. Also Vol. II., p. 334.]
[104] [That is, by the consummation of her marriage with Joseph.]
[105] [Language common among Christians, and adopted afterwards into the Creed.]
[107] Elucidation V.
[108] Proculus was a Roman senator who affirmed that Romulus had appeared to him after his death.
[109] [Chapter l. at close. “The blood of Christians is the seed of the Church.”]
[110] Herodotus, I. 47. [See Wilberforce’s Five Empires, p. 67.]
[111] [Castor and Pollux. Imitated in saint worship.]
[112] [This testimony must be noted as something of which Tertullian confidently challenges denial.]
[113] [Observe our author’s assertion that in its own nature, worship must be a voluntary act, and note this expression libertatem religionis.]
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