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On the Theophania
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843
Who, of those who have been praised for the wisdom of their observances, has ever so …
Who, of those who have been praised for the wisdom of their observances, has ever so delivered the barbarous and brutal of barbarous nations, by his merciful laws, that those who became (His) disciples among the Scythians, feast (now) no more on human beings? nor, among the Persians, take their own mothers (as wives)? others too cast not their dead to the dogs? nor do others deliver up those that are aged for strangulation? nor are other brutal and beastly things allied to these, done with others? But these are only small proofs of the revelation of the Godhead of the Saviour of us all. Look now also at others, and consider with thyself:—