...revolt of Italy, the temporal power of the popes, and the restoration of the Roman empire in the West. The primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images, and this aversion may be ascribed to their descent from the Jews, and their enmity to the Greeks. The...

...endeavoured to abolish the worship of images, and persecuted all who paid them religious rites. . . The primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable...and abuse of images ; but under the successors of Constantine, the bishops indulged the ignorant multitude with a visible superstition. The first introduction...

...in fixing a prophetic brand on a corrupt church, which marks a great falling away from the faith. " The primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images — The first introduction of a symbolic worship, was in the veneration of the cross and of relics....

...image worship, which had become very general. A. No; it being directly contrary to the Christian faith, the primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images. Q. Did the primitive Christians approve of the worship of images ? A. Under the successors of Constantine,...

...Christians," remarks Mr. Gibbon (who is more to be depended on in his facts, than his reasonings), " were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images, and this aversion may be ascribed to their descent from the Jews, and their enmity to the Greeks. The...

...poise the balance with philosophic indifference." He says ("Decline and Fall," vol. 6. p. 176 — 179.) "The Primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images. * * The Mosaic Law had severely proscribed all representations of the Deity. * * Perhaps some recent...

...of Italy, the temporal power of the popes, and the restoration of the Roman empire in the Wes1.The primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images ; and this aversion may be ascribed to their descent from the Jews, and their enmity to the Greeks....

...revolt of Italy, the temporal power of the popes, and the restoration of the Roman empire in the West, The primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images ; and this aversion may be ascribed to their descent from the Jews, and their enmity to the Greeks....

...corruptible man." " The primitive Christians," says Mr. Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, " were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images, and this aversion may be ascribed to their descent from the Jews, and their enmity to the Greeks. The...

...revolt of Italy, the temporal power of the popes, and the restoration of the Roman empire in the west. The primitive Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images. The wit of the Christian apologists was pointed against the foolish idolaters, who bowed before the...