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shown 1
shows 21
shun 1
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21 may
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21 pleasure
21 shows
20 same
20 shall
20 up
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
The shows

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shows

   Chapter
1 I | pleasures of the public shows. Ye who have testified and 2 II | constituent elements of the public shows, such as the horse, the 3 III | Scripture for giving up the shows, and holds out that the 4 III | plain interdicting of the shows. If he called those few 5 III | things agree. For at the shows they also stand in the way. 6 III | reference to the origin of shows, every show is an assembly 7 IV | entire apparatus of the shows is based upon idolatry, 8 IV | baptism has reference to the shows, which, through their idolatry, 9 V | in their new home public shows. The Romans, at their own 10 X | of seats for viewing the shows." So he threw a veil over 11 X | pollutions of the public shows, with the object of drawing 12 X | artistic gifts which the shows require. For none but themselves 13 XIII| of idolatry clings to the shows, in respect of their origins, 14 XIV | enough for our giving up the shows, let us now ex abundanti 15 XIV | as a specific class the "shows." But we have spoken already 16 XV | made to accord with the shows? For the show always leads 17 XV | suppose one should enjoy the shows in a moderate way, as befits 18 XIX | the habit of going to the shows. I would rather withal be 19 XX | idolatries, and these same shows; and precisely on that account 20 XXIV| which is peculiar to the shows has God's approval, or without 21 XXVI| company with the devil in the shows, have fallen from the Lord!


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