An Historical View of Christianity Containing Select Passages From Scripture
An Historical View of Christianity Containing Select Passages From Scripture
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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Deut. Ii. I4. Ye shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people, which are round about you; lest the Commentary. streams, possessed, in peace, their local and respective influ- ence ; nor could the Roman, who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian, who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. The visible powers of nature, the planets, and the elements, were the same throughout the universe. The invisible governors of the moral world were inevitably c...ast in a similar mould of fiction and allegory. Every virtue, and even vice, acquired its divine representa- tive ; every art and profession its patron, whose attributes, in the most distant ages and countries, were uniformly derived from the character of their peculiar votaries. A republic of gods * of such opposite tempers and interests required, in every system, the moderating hand of a supreme magistrate, who, by the progress of knowledge and flattery, was gradu- ally invested with the sublime perfections of an eternal parent, and an omnipotent monarch.
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