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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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WHEN CHKIST APPEARED.11and passive forms <strong>of</strong> nature,9 and worshipped witha mixture <strong>of</strong> fear and voluptuousness. Such wereBel and Mylitta, Moloch and Astarte, and by whateverdifferent names the same idea was presented.<strong>The</strong> worship <strong>of</strong> the great mother Cybele, so widelyspread through Asia Minor, approached in manyrespects in character to that <strong>of</strong> this female goddess.But it is needless to go farther into thespecific differences <strong>of</strong> these various idolatries; onlybear in mind that thev in their severoccupied the domain <strong>of</strong> public and private life, asthe worship <strong>of</strong> which I have given the details didat Athens. So it was before the influence <strong>of</strong> externalconquerors reached them. After this a certainchange ensues. <strong>The</strong> Roman empire was accomplishingin the west as well as in the east whatthe progress <strong>of</strong> Grecian rule and thought had commencedthree hundred years before10 under Alexanderand his successors, 7 the brinonn£ o O togetherc3and in some sort fusing the multiform and <strong>of</strong>tencontradictory worship <strong>of</strong> the nations surroundii e> ^-fthe Mediterranean Sea. Not merely in Rome, bin all the chief cities <strong>of</strong> the Empire, the Asiathe Egyptian, the Libyan deities, and many othbject nations under the Eoman sway, wered side by side. Accordingly, in the timf Augustus, and at the year <strong>of</strong> Rome 750, whwe are taking our stand, there prevailed all9 Heidenthum, tend Judenthum, p. 344.10 Ibid. p. 312.

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