 | 1845 - 122 דפים
...inst. II. c. 2.) Pictures should rather, if they had life, worship man, by whom they are made, than the reverse. " Nee intelligunt homines ineptissimi,...et moveri possent adoratura hominem fuissent a quo sunt exposita." " Lastly, do you not know,—as Bishop you must know this also,—that not till the... | |
 | 1845 - 582 דפים
...venerate the men by whom they have been formed, and the practice of the contrary ought not to be allowed. (Nee intelligunt homines ineptissimi, quod si sentire simulacra et moveri possent, adoratura hominem fuissant, a quo sunt expolita.)' Finally, do you not know — as a bishop you ought to know this as... | |
 | Samuel Laing - 1846 - 304 דפים
...the images, if they had life, should rather worship the men that made them, than the men them.' — Nee intelligunt homines ineptissimi quod si sentire...et moveri possent, adoratura hominem fuissent a quo expolita. " Finally, do you not know — as bishop you must know it — that the sound strong sense... | |
 | German correspondent of "The Continental echo.", J. W. Carr - 1846 - 504 דפים
...first three centuries were wont to taunt their neighbours ? as for example, in Dio., inst. ii. c. 2, nee intelligunt homines ineptissimi, quod si sentire...et moveri possent adoratura hominem fuissent a quo sunt expolita (' pictures, if possessed of life, should rather worship men by whoti>they were made,... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1860 - 644 דפים
...einem letzten die Arbeit beschlossen. — Nihil operan imagines nisi vivificentur. (Agrippina.) — Nee intelligunt homines ineptissimi, quod si sentire...moveri possent, adoratura hominem fuissent, a quo sunt expolita. — Um Orakel zu erhalten, bestrichen die Quiches (in Guatemala) ihre Götzen , die... | |
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Institut. 1. ii. c. 2). Lactantius is the last, as well as the most eloquent, of the Latin apologists. Their raillery of idols attacks not only the object, but the form and matter. 