The Catacombs of RomeG. Routledge, 1852 - 199 Seiten |
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Seite 23 - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Seite 18 - ... shirts,* and set on fire when the day closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock Circensian entertainment ; being a spectator of the whole, in the dress of a charioteer, sometimes mingling with the crowd on foot, and sometimes viewing the spectacle from his car.
Seite 57 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Seite 22 - For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows, then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you. And ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Seite 1 - ... they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy): they wandered in the deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Seite 17 - ... in abhorrence for their crimes, and called by the vulgar, Christians. The founder of that name was Christ, who suffered death in the reign of Tiberius, under his procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious superstition, thus checked for a while, broke out again and spread, not only over Judea, where the evil originated, but through Rome also, whither every thing bad upon earth finds its way, and is practised.
Seite 158 - O, sad times ! in which sacred rites and prayers, even in caverns, afford no protection to us. "What can be more wretched than such a life ? and what than such a death ? when they could not be buried by their friends and relations — at length they sparkle in heaven. He has scarcely lived, who has lived in Christian times.
Seite 17 - To put an end, therefore, to this report, he laid the guilt, and inflicted the most cruel punishments, upon a set of people, who were holden in abhorrence for their crimes, and called by the vulgar, Christians. The founder of that name was Christ, who suffered death in the reign of Tiberius, under his procurator, Pontius Pilate.
Seite 158 - In Christ. Alexander is not dead, but lives beyond the stars, and his body rests in this tomb. He lived under the Emperor Antonine, who, foreseeing that great benefit would result from his services, returned evil for good. For, while on his knees, and about to sacrifice to the true God, he was led away to execution. O, sad times ! in which sacred rites and prayers, even in caverns, afford no protection to us.
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