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" ... Supreme God, who has appointed them, as it were, his delegates and representatives. Those who argue that men ought not to serve many masters impute human weakness to God. God is not jealous of the adoration paid to subordinate deities ; He is superior... "
The history of Christianity ... to the abolition of paganism in the Roman empire - Page 183
by Henry Hart Milman - 1863
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 57

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 568 pages
...of the adoration paid to subordinate deities, he who cannot be degraded or outraged. raged. Reason itself might justify the belief in the inferior deities, which are the object of the established worship. For since the Supreme God can only produce that which is immortal...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 57

1836 - 564 pages
...of the adoration paid to subordinate deities, he who cannot be degraded or outraged. raged. Reason itself might justify the belief in the inferior deities, which are the object of the established worship. For since the Supreme God can only produce that which is immortal...
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The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the ..., Volume 2

Henry Hart Milman - Church history - 1840 - 544 pages
...adoration paid to subordinate deities ; he is superior in his nature to degradation and insult. Reason itself might justify the belief in the inferior deities,...those inferior deities, and assert them to be the creators of mortal beings and of perishable things."* * Origen contra Celsum, lib. vii. From this time,...
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The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the ..., Volume 3

Henry Hart Milman - Church history - 1840 - 524 pages
...adoration paid to subordinate deities ; he is superior in his nature to degradation and insult. Reason itself might justify the belief in the inferior deities,...those inferior deities, and assert them to be the creators of mortal beings and of perishable things."* * Origen contra Celsum, lib. vii. From this time,...
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The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the ..., Volume 1

Henry Hart Milman - Church history - 1840 - 432 pages
...insult. Reason itself might justify Ihe belief in Ihe inferior deilies, which are the objects of Ihe established worship. For since the Supreme God can...those inferior deities, and assert them to be the creators of mortal beings and or perishable things (1). r.ganiğm From this time, Paganism has changed...
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The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages, Volume 2

Lydia Maria Child - Religions - 1855 - 460 pages
...the belief in the inferior deities, the objects of established worship. For since the Supreme Being can only produce that which is immortal and imperishable,...we distinguish from Him those inferior deities, and suppose them to be the creators of mortal beings, and of perishable things." Celsus, in common with...
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The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages, Volume 2

Lydia Maria Child - Religions - 1855 - 496 pages
...the belief in the inferior deities, the objects of established worship. For since the Supreme Being can only produce that which is immortal and imperishable,...we distinguish from Him those inferior deities, and suppose them to be the creators of mortal beings, and of perishable things." Celsus, in common with...
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A History of Christian Doctrine, Volume 1

William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1863 - 434 pages
...adoration paid to subordinate deities ; he is superior in his nature to degradation and insult. Reason itself might justify the belief in the inferior deities,...established worship. For, since the Supreme God can. produce only that which is immortal and imperishable, the existence of mortal beings cannot be explained,...
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A history of Christian doctrine, Volume 1

William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1865 - 444 pages
...adoration paid to subordinate deities; he is superior in his nature to degradation and insult. Reason itself might justify the belief in the inferior deities,...established worship. For, since the Supreme God can produce only that which is immortal and imperishable, the existence of mortal beings cannot be explained,...
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History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition ..., Volume 2

Henry Hart Milman - Church history - 1866 - 488 pages
...adoration paid to subordinate deities : He is superior in his nature to degradation and insult. Reason itself might justify the belief in the inferior deities,...creatures of mortal beings and of perishable things." 1 From this time, Paganism has changed not merely some of its fundamental tenets, but its gensenous....
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