 ... let holy water be made and sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected, and relics placed. For if those temples are well built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God ; that the nation,...  Transactions - Seite 234von Inverness Gaelic Society - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Monica Wilson - 1971 - 184 Seiten
...be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error...been accustomed. And because they have been used to slaughter many oxen in the sacrifice to devils, some solemnity must be exchanged for them on this account,... | |
 | Alan Richard Tippett - 1987 - 488 Seiten
...in 601 recommended the conversion of pagan temples into Christian churches "in order that the people may the more familiarly resort to the places to which they have been accustomed." However, in practice the temple was usually destroyed and frequently the converts themselves wanted... | |
 | Eugene Albert Nida - 1960 - 324 Seiten
...be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error...hearts, and knowing and adoring the true God, may they more familiarly resort to the places to which they have been accustomed. And because they have... | |
 | Elizabeth Pepper, John Wilcock - 2000 - 312 Seiten
...God," wrote Gregory the Great in 601 (quoted in Bede's Ecclesiastical History), "that the nations, seeing their temples are not destroyed, may remove...and knowing and adoring the true God may the more freely resort to places to which they have been accustomed." In 1561, to satisfy the desire of the... | |
 | Karen Louise Jolly - 1997 - 588 Seiten
...be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error...been accustomed. And because they have been used to slaughter many oxen in the sacrifices to devils, some solemnity must be exchanged for them on this... | |
 | Dion Fortune - 2000 - 116 Seiten
...worship he found, the answer he received was — "To use them when possible, in order that the people may the more familiarly resort to the places to which they have been accustomed." All over the United Kingdom are these places, for the Druids built nothing without knowledge, and one... | |
 | N. J. G. Pounds - 2000 - 624 Seiten
...sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected and placed . . . [so] that the nation seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error from their hearts and . . . may the more freely resort to the places to which they have been accustomed.'3 In other words,... | |
 | Gerald Brosseau Gardner, Gerald B. Gardner - 2004 - 292 Seiten
...temples are to be "purified" and changed into Christian churches, so that "the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error...to the places to which they have been accustomed." (Quoted by the Venerable Bede in his "Historia Ecclesiastica.") Sometimes, as we have seen, the old... | |
 | Mike Aquilina, Christopher Bailey - 2010 - 258 Seiten
...be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error...been accustomed. And because they have been used to slaughter many oxen in the sacrifices to devils, some solemnity must be exchanged for them on this... | |
 | Gailyn Van Rheenen - 2006 - 360 Seiten
...be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error...to the places to which they have been accustomed" (Bede, Book 1 , XXX). regarding the continuation of Pagan practices in Rome to Pope Zacharias (ca.... | |
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