Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 04 — Section 362
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 4
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 4
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But this custom is not a new one, nor did it begin from the Roman Senate: on the contrary, it had existed previously from of old, and was formerly practised for the devising of idols. For the gods renowned from of old among the Greeks, Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Hephæstus, Hermes, and, among females, Hera and Demeter and Athena and Artemis, were decreed the title of gods by the order of Theseus, of whom Greek history tells us [121] ; and so the men who pass such decrees die like men and are mourned for, while those in whose favour they are passed are worshipped as gods. What a height of i…
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