Historic And Monumental Rome a Handbook for the Students of Classical And Chri
Historic And Monumental Rome a Handbook for the Students of Classical And Chri
Charles Isidore Hemans
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We saw that they neither gave the honour that was due to the imalortal Grods, nor heeded that (the God) of the Christians — we have resolved that * To Marcella many of the letters of S. J€roine are addressed. This pious Roman matron, who died about a. D. 410, was considered to be so deeply versed in the Scriptures that bishops sometimes consulted her respecting the disputed sense of sacred texts. 2 B 2 372 HISTORIC AND MONUMENTAL EOME. there may be Christians again, and that they may restore th...e houses in which they were accustomed to assemble. "* However the Cliurch of the IV. Century may have dif- fered from that of apostolic times, there is, in the range of monuments here considered, enough to enable us to evoke before the mental eye a grand and ennobling fact, fraught with assertion of the capacities of Humanity for high attainment, a picture of social life informed by a spirit in striking opposition to all that was dark or evil, while superior to all that was highest and purest, in Heathen antiquity : fervour without fanaticism, serenity combined with heroism, gentleness with strength, courage immove- able as the rock, nerved to endure all for a sacred cause, a rapturous but cheerful piety, a faith and worship long preserved from the taint of superstitious and trivial novel- ties.
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