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Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1587

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Passage referenceAnte-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1587
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6

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3. Since this is so, and since no strange influence has suddenly manifested itself to break the continuous course of events by interrupting their succession, what is the ground of the allegation, that a plague was brought upon the earth after the Christian religion came into the world, and after it revealed the mysteries of hidden truth? But pestilences, say my opponents, and droughts, wars, famines, locusts, mice, and hailstones, and other hurtful things, by which the property of men is assailed, the gods bring upon us, incensed as they are by your wrong-doings and by your transgressi…
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library — ANF06 UTF-8 text
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