| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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