Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 2051
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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[4767] [When good old Dutch Boyens came to the pontificate as Hadrian VI., he was accounted a "barbarian" because he so little appreciated the art-treasures in the Vatican, on which Leo X. had lavished so much money and so much devotion. His pious spirit seemed oppressed to see so many heathen images in the Vatican: sunt idola ethnicorum was all he could say of them,--a most creditable anecdote of such a man in such times. See p. 504, n. 6, supra.] [4768] [In the Edin. edition this is the opening sentence, but the editor remarks]: "By some accident the introduction to the seventh book …
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