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On the Theophania

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843

And again, all had been led to such a state of insanity, that they even sacrificed their …

And again, all had been led to such a state of insanity, that they even sacrificed their friends to those who were thought to be Gods: nor did they spare their own nature; on the contrary, they put to death, through the madness and bondage of their minds, even their only children, and the friends of their children! And, What madness can be greater than this, that (men) should sacrifice human beings, and pollute all their cities and houses with their own blood? And, behold! Do not all the Greeks bear testimony to these same things? And, Is not the whole of their histories filled with the records of them?

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