Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1944
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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13. Through her bosom, we are told, [4356] Nana conceived a son by an apple. The opinion is self-consistent; for where rocks and hard stones bring forth, there apples must have their time of generating. [4357] The Berecyntian goddess fed the imprisoned maiden with nuts [4358] and figs, fitly and rightly; for it was right that she should live on apples who had been made a mother by an apple. After her offspring was born, it was ordered by Sangarius to be cast far away: that which he believed to be divinely conceived long before, he would not have [4359] called the offspring of his child…
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