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cross

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1 I, 3 | punishment by the sword, or the cross, or the beasts.~ 2 I, 12| CHARGE OF WORSHIPPING A CROSS. THE HEATHENS THEMSELVES 3 I, 12| are "the priesthood of a cross," we shall claim him as 4 I, 12| as our co-religionist. A cross is, in its material, a sign 5 I, 12| and wood formed into a cross, when each is represented 6 I, 12| position is a part of a cross, and indeed the greater 7 I, 12| its mass. But an entire cross is attributed to us, with 8 I, 12| that your religion is all cross, as I shall show. You are 9 I, 12| proceeded from this hated cross. Now, every image, whether 10 I, 12| upon the form of a wooden cross, because even our own body 11 I, 12| and concealed outline of a cross. Since the head rises upwards, 12 I, 12| the general outline of a cross. Starting, then, from this 13 I, 12| the body, and covers the cross within with the shape which 14 I, 12| well-understood routine, the cross passes into a god through 15 I, 12| through the clayey medium. The cross then you consecrate, and 16 I, 12| your gods, you worship the cross which originates them, here 17 I, 18| take the torture) of the cross, of which so many instances 18 I, 18| Regulus among you has raised a cross as the instrument of his 19 II, 7 | vexation at his daring to cross her love? Why was not Hercules "


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