 | Conyers Middleton - 1755 - 496 էջ
...£ z] Hofpin. de Orig. Templor. 1. ii. 22, G 3 they they light up candles to God, fays LaHantius, at .if he lived in the dark : and do not they deferve...-who offer lamps to the Author and Giver of Light ? In the collections of old infcriptions, we find many inftances of prefents and donations from private... | |
 | 1825 - 582 էջ
...the Deity. Lactantius says, speaking of the absurdities of the wax lights in Romish Churches, " They light up " candles to God, as if he lived in the dark : " and do they not deserve to pass for madmen, " who offer lamps and candles to the author and " giver of light... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 770 էջ
...the Deity. Lactantius says, speaking of the absurdities of the wax lights in Romish Churches, " They light up " candles to God, as if he lived in the dark : " and do they not deserve to pass for madmen, " who offer lamps and candles to the author and " giver of light... | |
 | 1855 - 630 էջ
...often given as votive gifts by private persons. One of the early writers ridiculed this custom : " They Cor. ii. 14 — 16. Christian reader, pause a momen ! " 4. So with votive gifts. The Papists give them on the same occasions as did the heathens, and the... | |
 | 1861 - 1642 էջ
...Deities, but the " Father of lights " needs no such artificial human aid. " Why," asks Lactantius, " light up candles to God, as if he lived in the dark 't Deserve they not to pass for madmen who offer lamps to the Author and Giver of light ? " The sacred... | |
 | Nicholas Murray - 1852 - 318 էջ
...Pope acts so conspicuous a part. And some of the Christian fathers thus ridiculed the heathen ; "they light up candles to God as if he lived in the dark ; but do they not deserve to be called madmen who offer lamps to the Author and Giver of light ?" The... | |
 | Jesuit priest - 1852 - 334 էջ
...Virgil, and other classic authors, as being common to the heathen worshippers. Lactantius says, "They light up candles to God, as if he lived in the dark ; but do not they deserve to rank as madmen, who offer up lamps to the Author and Giver of light."... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1854 - 332 էջ
...regard to this practice, because he positively says, in attacking the use of lights by the Pagans, they light up candles to God as if he lived in the dark, and do they not deserve to pass for madmen who offer lamps to the Author and Giver of light ? ^ And is it... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1854 - 360 էջ
...regard to this practice, because he positively says, in attacking the use of lights by the Pagans, they light up candles to God as if he lived in the dark, and do they not deserve to pass for madmen who offer lamps to the Author and Giver of light? "\" And is it... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 էջ
...the Deity. Lactantius says, speaking of the absurdities of the wax lights in Romish churches, " They light up candles to God, as if he lived in the dark ; and do they not deserve to pass for madmen who offer lamps and candles to the author and giver of light ?"... | |
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candles to God, as if he lived in the dark : " and do they not deserve to pass for madmen, " who offer lamps and candles to the author and 
