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History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)

... , absurdities, and immoralities of the Greek mythology from actual knowledge and with ... were older and wiser than the Greek philosophers, and gives much information on ... ridicule and his radical antagonism to Greek mythology and philosophy: Ch. 21.— ...

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ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)

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Tatian's Address to the Greeks by Tatian the Assyrian (c.120-c.180)

Chapter XXVI.—Ridicule of the Studies of the Greeks. Cease to make a parade of sayings which ...

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Tatian's Address to the Greeks by Tatian the Assyrian (c.120-c.180)

... . We do not act as fools, O Greeks, nor utter idle tales, when we announce ... give you information? Believe me now,…

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Tatian's Address to the Greeks by Tatian the Assyrian (c.120-c.180)

... is older than the systems of the Greeks. Moses and Homer shall be our limits ... . Matt. xiii.…

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Exhortation to the Heathen by Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215)

... the other hand, supposes that only Greeks can philosophise. And in the Symposium, ... have excelled many philosophers among the Greeks. And the Hyperboreans, Hellanicus relates,…

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Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. by Wace, Henry (1836-1924)

Symmachus (2), author of the Greek version of O.T., which in Origen's ... barbarous diction and to commend his work to Greek readers by purity of style. Thus, his renderings ...

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ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)

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Discourse to the Greeks by justin_martyr

Chapter II.—The Greek theogony exposed. But since, next to Homer, Hesiod ... fornicating disposition of Venus. Read to Jupiter, ye Greeks, the law against parricides,…

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Discourse to the Greeks by justin_martyr

Chapter III.—Follies of the Greek mythology. For Hercules, celebrated by his ... because young and beautiful. Since, therefore, ye Greeks, your gods are convicted of intemperance,…

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History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)

... oligarchy. There are, according to the Greek theory, five patriarchs of equal rights ... always been obliged to recognize the Greek Church as essentially orthodox, though schismatic ... in Turkey (European Turkey and the Greek islands, Asia Minor, Syria and ...

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NPNF1-02. St. Augustine's City of God and Christian Doctrine by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)

... 9.—That the Poetical License Which the Greeks, in Obedience to Their Gods, Allowed, ... lewdness.” And in the earlier days the Greeks preserved a certain reasonableness in their license, ... or blamed on the stage. But the Greeks, as I said, though not so moral ...

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