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... Alexandria - Antony and his Monks -Tertullian - Cyprian suggests the Pa- pal Idea - The Church in Rome - The Catacombs Early Christian Art — Early Roman Bishops ............. 178 iv CHAPTER VII . --- CONSTANTINE the Great - His.
... Alexandria - Antony and his Monks -Tertullian - Cyprian suggests the Pa- pal Idea - The Church in Rome - The Catacombs Early Christian Art — Early Roman Bishops ............. 178 iv CHAPTER VII . --- CONSTANTINE the Great - His.
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... monk , hermit , anchoret , betokened their determined rejection of society , for all were Greek words signifying solitude . His female followers equally indicated their resolution to reject the Apostolic rule of married life ( 1 Tim . v ...
... monk , hermit , anchoret , betokened their determined rejection of society , for all were Greek words signifying solitude . His female followers equally indicated their resolution to reject the Apostolic rule of married life ( 1 Tim . v ...
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... monk content himself with such a dinner , since it is his necessity or nature to go hungry . ' Equally light with their fare was the dress of Antony and his monks — a long linen tunic or a sheepskin ; their furniture , a little bundle ...
... monk content himself with such a dinner , since it is his necessity or nature to go hungry . ' Equally light with their fare was the dress of Antony and his monks — a long linen tunic or a sheepskin ; their furniture , a little bundle ...
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... monks were ever engaged in fierce conflict with sense . Then the quiescence in which they passed the day awoke to almost preternatural vividness visions of earth or of heaven in the hours of the night , when the effulgent magnificence ...
... monks were ever engaged in fierce conflict with sense . Then the quiescence in which they passed the day awoke to almost preternatural vividness visions of earth or of heaven in the hours of the night , when the effulgent magnificence ...
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... monks by the aspect before their eyes each day of the enormous piles of the naked mountain Colzim , and the dead solitude of sand around them , traversed but not enlivened by the Nile . Hence the life of Antony , according to Gieseler ...
... monks by the aspect before their eyes each day of the enormous piles of the naked mountain Colzim , and the dead solitude of sand around them , traversed but not enlivened by the Nile . Hence the life of Antony , according to Gieseler ...
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