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For, in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the uni- Verse, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of tho Holy Spirit, they then receive the Washing With mater. For Christalso sald, Except ye be born again, Π shali not enter intotho hingdom of heaven. - Now, that it is impossibis for thoso
were brought up in bad habita and wiched training ; in
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order that we may not remain the children os necessity and of ignorance, but may become the children os choico and knowledge, and may obtain in the water the remission offins formerly committed, there is pronounced over him Whochooses to be born again, and has repented of his sins, thenams of God the Fathor and Lord of the universe; ho Wholeads to the laver the person that is to bo Washed calling him
by this name Mone. For no one can ulter the name of the
ineffabio God; and is any one dare to say that there is aname, he r.es With a hopetess madness. And this Washingis called illumination, because they -ο leam tbese iningsare illuminated in their understandings. And in tho nameos Jesus Christ, Who was crucified under Pontius Pilato, and in the namo of the ΗοU Ghost, Who inmugii the propheis foretoid ali things about Jesus, he who is illuminated is Washed.
CHAP. LXII. is imitation by demons.
And tho deviis, indoed, having heard this Washingpublished by the prophet, instigated inose Who enter their
temples, and are about to approach them With libations and burni-offerings, also to spriniae themselves; and they cause
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hing and rising again He might conquer death. And that which was sald out of tho busti to Moses, I am that Ι am, the God of Abraham, and tho God of Isaac, and the God ofJacob, and the God of your Athera, ' this signissed that thon
the deviis, in imitation os what was said is Moses, asserted that Proserpine mas the daughter of J upiter, and instigated
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the conception in a female shape. And tu like manner thoactions of those others Who are called sons of Jupiter sussiciently condemn them. CHAP. LXV.-Administration Os the sacraments. But we, after Wo have thus wasted him who has beon convinced and has assented to our teaching, bring him in the place Where those Who are called brethren aro assembled, in order that me may offer hearly prayers in common forourseivos and for the baptized filiuminatodJ person, and for
is then brought to tho president of the brothron' broad ind
loniana, and Romans, and thenco passed into a common Christian uange. It waa continued in the Reatern Church, under regulations to prevent
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charis , of which no one is allοwed to partake but the manwho belloves that the things Malch We teach are true, and who has been washod With the Washing that is for the remission os sitis, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has onjoined. For not as common bread and commondrinh do me receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ
posed by them, Whicli are called Gospeis, have thus delivered
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remembrance of me, this is my bOdy;' and that, after stosame manner, having taken the cup and oven thanks, Hesaid, This is my bloodand gavo it to them Hone. Whichtho wichod deviis have imitated in tho mysteries of Ilithras, commanding the fame thing to be done. For, stat breadand a cup of Water are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of One Who is being initialed, you eister
ait who livo in cities or in tho count gather together to oneplace, and the memoirs of the aposties or the writings of the propheis are read, as long as time permits; then, When thereader has ceased, the president verbalty instrucis, and exhoristo the imitation of thess good things. Then we ali rise togetherand pray, and, as me beiore Sald, When our prayer is ended, bread and wine and M ater are brought, and the president in like manner offers prvers and thanksgivings, according to his abili ,' and the peοplo assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that ouer Whichthanks have been given,' and to those Who are absent a pO tion is sent by the doacons. And they Who are Weli to do, and willing, give What dach thinhs fit; and what is collectedis deposited missi the president, Who succoura the orphans and widows, and those Who, through sichness or any Other cause, are in Want, and those who are in bonds, and thestrangera sojourning among us, and in a Word tines care of
tention, but Which seems to admit of no other meaning than that oven
' in, of the eucharistic elements. VOL. II. E
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sideration. CHAP. LXVIII.-Conclusion.
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far more just, is any one destres to mine an accusation, that Du give judgment upon it. Ii, thereiore, any one maristho accusation, and turnishes proes that the said mon do an
thing contrary to the laWs, you fhail adjudge punishments in proportion to the offences. And this, is Hercules, yοu inali givo special heed to, stat ii any man inali, throuo mero
calumnn bring an accusation against any of these personh, you shali aWard to him more severe punishments in propo tion to his michedness. EPISTLE OF ANTONINUS TO THE COMMOΝ ASSEMBLY OF
Τho Emporor Caesar Titus bElius Adrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Supreme Pontifi, in the fifteenth year of histribuneship, consul for the third time, sather of the fasto land, to the common assembly of Asia, greeting: I shouldhavo thought stat tho goti themsolvest Would seo to it that such offendera should not escape. For ii they had the poWer, sisy themselves Would much rather punish those Who rosuseto Worship them; but it is 3 ou who bring troubio on these
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cerning such persons, some others also of the govemors of provinces Wrote to any most divine sather; to whom ho
ine accuser. be amenable to justice.
scouis potnted out to us, and our generat Pompeianus silowedus that there Was close on us a mass of a mixed multitudo of