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Chapter XXXV.—Uselessness of These Allegories.
When Niceta had thus spoken, Aquila
answered:874
| 874 [With this
treatment of the allegories compare Homily VI. 17, 18.—R.] |
“Whoever he was that was the author and inventor of these things,
he seems to me to have been very impious, since he covered over those
things which seem to be pleasant and seemly, and made the ritual of his
superstition to consist in base and shameful observances, since those
things which are written according to the letter are manifestly
unseemly and base; and the whole observance of their religion consists
in these, that by such crimes and impieties they may teach men to
imitate their gods whom they
worship. For in these allegories what profit can there be to
them? For although they are framed so as to be decent, yet no use
is derived from them for worship, nor for amendment of
morals.
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