 Monotheist edged the unity of the Godhead. The religion of the Persians was, of all the Gentile forms of faith, the most simple and the most spiritual. Their abhorrence of idols was pushed almost to fanaticism. " They have "no images of the gods, no temples,...  The Vedic age, a lecture - Σελίδα 10των Tarucnath Dutt - 1860Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Edward Higginson - 1871 - 472 σελίδες
...to Delphi was the invasion not merely of a hostile army, but of a * Xenophon's Cyropaedia. t ' They have no images of the Gods, no temples, no altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly.' — Herodotus, i. 131. Compare Rawlmsou's Herodotus, Vol. I. Essay 5. band of terrible... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1876 - 600 σελίδες
...most simple and the most spiritual. Their abhorrence of idols was pushed almost to fanaticism. " They have " no images of the gods, no temples, no altars, and " consider the use of them a sign of folly." This was Herodotus' account of the Persians of his own day, and it is fully borne... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1877 - 548 σελίδες
...most simple and the most spiritual. Their abhorrence of idols was pushed almost to fanaticism. ' They have no ' images of the gods, no temples, no altars, and consider the ' use of them a sign of folly.' This was Herodotus' account of the Persians of his own day, and it is fully horne... | |
 | 1879 - 398 σελίδες
...most simple and the most spiritual. Their abhorrence of idols was pushed almost to fanaticism. ' They have no images of the gods, no temples, no altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly.' This was Herodotus' account of the Persians of his own day, and it is fully borne... | |
 | Castleton - 1881 - 126 σελίδες
...beauty. ZOROASTER. Herodotus in his interesting account of the religion of the Persians says "they have no images of the Gods, no temples, no altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly." Zoroaster's doctrine of God is expressed as follows:—" He is true light, lucid,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 604 σελίδες
...most simple and the most spiritual. Their abhorrence of idols was pushed almost to fanaticism. " They have " no images of the gods, no temples, no altars, and " consider the use of them a sign of folly." This wa& Herodotus' account of the Persians of his own day, and it is fully borne... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1888 - 572 σελίδες
...Zoroaster obtained the suggestion from Isa. 45 : 5-7. Herodotus (I. 131) asserts that the Persians have no images of the gods, no temples, no altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. Compare Rawlinson : Herodotus I. v. A writer in the Princeton Review, Oct. 1869, affirms... | |
 | Robert Tuck - 1890 - 580 σελίδες
...most simple and the most spiritual. Their abhorrence of idols was pushed almost to fanaticism. " They have no images of the gods, no temples, no altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly." This was Herodotus's account of the Persians of his own day, and it is fully borne... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - 1901 - 430 σελίδες
...training. The Persians, among whom he was brought up, abhorred idolatry. "They have," says Herodotus, " no images of the gods, no temples, no altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly." That is, they were monotheists. Cyrus himself, by coming in contact with polytheists... | |
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