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Apologetic
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[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.]
[114] [See Augustine’s City of God, III. xvii. p. 95, Ed. Migne.]
[115] Her image was taken from Pessinus to Rome.
[116] [Familiar reference to Virgil, Æneid, I. 15.]
[117] Heb. x. 22. [See cap. xlii. infra. p. 49.]
[118] [Once more this reflection on the use of material incense, which is common to early Christians, as in former volumes noted.]
[119] [A reference to kneeling, which see the de Corona cap. 3, infra. Christians are represented as standing at prayer, in the delineations of the Catacombs. But, see Nicene Canon, xx.]
[122] [Cap. xxxix. infra. And see Kaye, pp. 20, 348. A subject of which more hereafter.]
[123] [A familiar story of Alexander is alluded to.]
[124] [Note this reference to a shameless custom of the heathen in Rome and elsewhere.]
[125] [See cap. l. and Note on cap. xl. infra.]
[126] Commodus.
[127] To murder Pertinax.
[128] Tigerius and Parthenius were among the murderers of Commodus.
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