A History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in Christendom volume 1
A History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in Christendom volume 1
White Andrew Dickson
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), p. 52 ; Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece, pp. 41, 6r, 62 ; Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol. I, p. 322 ; also Suetonius, Caes. , Julius, p. 88, Claud. , p. 463 ; Seneca, Nat. Quaest. , vol. I, p. I ; Virgil, Fcl. , vol. Ix, p. 47 ; as well as Ovid, Pliny, and others. THE THEOLOGICAL VIEW. Jy^ that at the death of Romulus there was darkness for six hours. In the history of the Caesars occur portents of all three kinds ; for at the death of Julius the earth was shrouded in darkness, the birth of Augustus... was heralded by a star, and the downfall of Nero by a comet. So, too, in one of the Christian legends clustering about the crucifixion, darkness overspread the earth from the sixth to the ninth hour. Nei- ther the silence regarding it of the only evangelist who claims to have been present, nor the fact that observers like Seneca and Pliny, who, though they carefully described much less striking occurrences of the same sort and in more remote regions, failed to note any such darkness even in Judea, have availed to shake faith in an account so true to the highest poetic instincts of humanity.
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