| Johann Lorenz von Mosheim - 1810 - 602 sivua
...and Romans, rendered the sepulchres pf the saints the general rendezvous of suppliant multitudes [#]. The images of those, who, during their lives, had...the same thing concerning the statues of Jupiter and Meiv cury [#]. A singular and irresistible efficacy was also attributed to the bones of martyrs, and... | |
| T. Drummond - 1812 - 112 sivua
...their divinities to ensure the presence of the Divinity so amongst Christians in the fifth century * " the images of those who during their lives had acquired...the saints or celestial beings they represented." The commandment "Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 544 sivua
...rendered the sepulchres of the saints the general rendezvous of suppliant multitudes.1 The images ot those who, during their lives, had acquired the reputation...celestial beings they represented ; deluded, perhaps, into tins idle fancy, by the crafty fictions of the heathen priests, who had published the same thing concerning... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 538 sivua
...ana Romans, rendered the sepulchres of the saints the general rendezvous of suppliant multitudes.1 The images of those who, during their lives, had acquired...drew down into the images the propitious presence 01 the saints or celestial beings they represented ; deluded, perhaps, into this idle fancy, by the... | |
| John Ranicar Parker - 1825 - 254 sivua
...Christians were invoked by numbers, while none stood up to censure or oppose this preposterous worship " The images of those who, during their lives, had acquired...heathen priests, who had published the same thing of the statues of Jupiter and Minerva. A singular and irresistible efficacy was also attributed to... | |
| Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 sivua
...increased. " The sepulchres of the saints" became " the general rendezvous of suppliant multitudes! The images of those, who, during their lives, had acquired the reputation of uncommon sanctity, were honoured with a particular worship in several places; and many imagined that this worship drew down... | |
| Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 sivua
...RoGreeks and Romans, rendered the sepulchres of the saints the general rendezvous of suppliant multitudes. The images of those who during their lives had acquired the reputation of peculiar sanctity, were now honoured with a particular worship in several places, and many imagined,... | |
| William Russell Macdonald - 1829 - 286 sivua
...idle propensity which the generality of mankind have towards a gaudy and ostentatious religion;" — and " many imagined that this worship drew down into...the saints or celestial beings they represented." Platina says, that in the fifth century, Pope Sixtus HI. prevailed on the Emperor Valentinian to place... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 sivua
...Greeks and Romans, rendered the sepulchres of the saints the general rendezvous of suppliant multitudes. The images of those who, during their lives, had acquired the reputation of uncommon sanctity, were now honored with a particular worship in several places. A singular and irresistible efficacy was also... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 sivua
...invocation of the souls of departed saints. Their assistance was entreated by many fervent prayers, and the images of those who, during their lives had acquired the reputation of sanctity, were honored with worship in several places. A singular and irresistible efficacy was also... | |
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