 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 324 pages
...inconsiderable. His authority would alone be sufficient to annihilate that formidable army of martyrs, whose relics, drawn for the most part from the catacombs...churches, and whose marvellous achievements have ,been the subjects of so many volumes of holy romance. As a specimen of these legends, we may be satisfied with... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 354 pages
...inconsiderable. His authority would alone be sufficient to annihilate that formidable army of martyrs, whose relics, drawn for the most part from the catacombs...many churches, and whose marvellous achievements have tbeen the subjects of so many volumes of holy romance. : As a specimen of these legends, we may be... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...of Abdias, which the church has rejected as apocryphal. " Dionysius, the friend of Origen, reckons in the immense city of Alexandria, and under the rigorous persecution of Decins, only ten men, and seven women, who suffered for the profession of the Christian name ;" and... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Rationalism - 1834 - 458 pages
...of Abdias, which the church has rejected as apocryphal. " Dionysius, the friend of Origen, reckons in the immense city of Alexandria, and under the rigorous persecution of Decius, only ten men, and seven women, who suffered for the profession of the Christian name :" and Origen... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1845 - 436 pages
...history of Abdias, which the church has rejected as apocryphal " Dionysius, the friend of Origen, reckons in the immense city of Alexandria, and under the rigorous persecution of Decius, only ten men, and seven women, who suffered for the profession of the Christian name;" and Origen himself... | |
 | 1851 - 372 pages
...inconsiderable. His authority would alone be sufficient to annihilate that formidable army of martyrs, whose relics, drawn for the most part from the catacombs of Rome, have replenished so many churches. J and whose marvellous achievements have been the subject of so many volumes The mines of Numidia contained... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...inconsiderable.13 His authority would alone be sufficient to annihilate that formidable army of martyrs, whose relics, drawn for the most part from the catacombs of Rome, have replenished so many churches,73 and whose marvellous achievements have been the subject of so many volumes of holy romance.74... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 632 pages
...wrote hit book* against Celsu*. — O. VOL. 2 8 Or gen may be explained and confirmed by the partieulai testimony of his friend Dionysius, who, in the immense...persecution of Decius, reckons only ten men and seven women who suffered for the profession of the Christian name.79 During the same period of persecution,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 716 pages
...inconsiderable." His authority would alone be sufficient to annihilate that formidable army of martyrs, whose relics, drawn for the most part from the catacombs...persecution of Decius, reckons only ten men and seven women who suffered for the profession of the Christian name." During the same period of persecution... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 602 pages
...inconsiderable.72 His authority would alone be sufficient to annihilate that formidable army of martyrs whose relics, drawn for the most part from the catacombs of Rome, have replenished so many churches,73 and whose marvellous achievements have been the subject of so many volumes of holy romance.74... | |
| |
But the general assertion of Origen may be explained and confirmed by the particular testimony of his friend Dionysius, who, in the immense city of Alexandria, and under the rigorous persecution of Decius, reckons only ten men and seven women who suffered... 
