Vulgar words in A Source Book for Ancient Church History (Page 1)
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I hear that they adore the head of an ass, that basest of creatures, consecrated by I know not what silly persuasion-a worthy and appropriate religion for such morals.
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"They were in essence certain spirits attached to the rational soul, through some original perturbation and confusion; and that again, other bastard and heterogeneous natures of spirits grow onto them, like that of the wolf, the ape, the lion, and the goat, whose properties, showing themselves around the soul, they say, assimilate the lusts of the soul to the likeness of these animals."