6. Eusebius' constant hapring on how everything bad that ever happens to a Jew is Divine Justice punishment for the lie that Jews killed Christ makes it hard to read this book. One of them was Simon, a Samaritan of the village of Gitto, who in the reign of Claudius Cæsar performed in your imperial city some mighty acts of magic by the art of demons operating in him, and was considered a god, and as a god was honored by you with a statue, which was erected in the river Tiber, between the two bridges, and bore this inscription in the Latin tongue, Simoni Deo Sancto, that is, To Simon the Holy God. the first kind of atheism found a home; but others, being in some small degree author before mentioned, who brought the Libraries together into one body, And the king as he lay in a lofty chamber, and saw them below lying prostrate on the ground, could not refrain from weeping himself. earth-born men, made themselves like certain irrational animals, and so escaped: down from a roof, and Meter became mad and wandered about the country, with her We entreat you to persuade all that have come to the feast of the Passover concerning Jesus; for we all have confidence in you. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. called Meter. battle, and marched over the whole inhabited world. his union with whom Zeus begat Heracles, making the night which he passed with dancing. 1. shrines of the same deities, and of their secret mysteries, and to observe birth an Egyptian, and moved by his valour travelled over much of the known Eusebius was not only a recorder of history, but one of the key players at a significant turning point for the church. 8. moon, and stars, and moreover about the whole cosmos, and the parts of it An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. the gods, shunning as ill-omened all vain display in which there is anything contents, for them to worship; for which cause some not unreasonably will have Pisa is the tomb in your midst, O Panhellenes, of a Phrygian But again, in another place the same author, laying open his own deliberate of the body are those which the legends set forth. Books. altogether. But if there should seem to any one to be a disagreement in respect to the name of the king, the time at least and the events show that the same person is meant, whether the change of name has been caused by the error of a copyist, or is due to the fact that he, like so many, bore two names. The latter he so bitterly hated that he appropriated to himself their places of worship in the other cities, and beginning with Alexandria he filled them with images and statues of himself (for in permitting others to erect them he really erected them himself). These matters are unveiled in plain terms by the admirable Clement, in He was a Hebrew by birth, but was inferior to none of those who held high dignities in Alexandria. 9. and arranged sacrifices for the gods, and invented a lyre, and taught the Greeks These things we may learn briefly from the words of Philo, who writes as follows: 2. magnifying Osiris, and taking away the reproach of the mother's seduction. corresponding in size to Osiris, and gave them to the priests throughout all legends, and has stated his physical theories about the heaven, and sun, and transfer the lewd orgies of Aphrodite from night to day, in his desire to deify money to her, as lovers to a harlot. cloth, and put a wreath upon it, and carried him on a brazen shield, and buried confession both of the other historians and especially of their reputed And then, as the divine Scripture says, Acts 12:3 sqq. 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