Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1428
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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So, with some such thoughts of the fair order of things, I returned home. But on the day following, that is today, as I came I saw two beings of the same race--I mean men--striking and abusing one another; and another, again, wishing to strip his neighbour. And now some began to venture upon a more terrible deed; for one stripped a corpse, and exposed again to the light of day a body that had been once hidden in the earth, and treated a form like his own with such insult as to leave the corpse to be food for dogs; while another bared his sword, and attacked a man like himself. And he w…
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- Christian Classics Ethereal Library — ANF06 UTF-8 text
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