Exhortation to Martyrdom
Cyprian of Carthage
Section 1
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1. That idols are not gods, and that the elements
Opening the library…
Opening the library…
Exhortation to Martyrdom
Cyprian of Carthage
1. That idols are not gods, and that the elements
[The astronomical idols seem to have been the earliest adopted (Job xxxi. 27), and so the soul degraded itself to lower forms and to mere fetichism by a process over and over again repeated among men. Rom. i. 21, 23.]