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St. Patrick's Sabbath (White, St. Patrick, His Writings and Life, 1920)

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Type: a quote Sub-type:  historical fact (5th cent.) Relevance:  prophecy Text:   "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Genesis 2:2-3 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:8-11   Her parents, having taken advice given to them by God, heard of Patrick as a man who was visited by the eve...

Grades in Mithraism (A ... Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers..., ser. 2, vol. 6).

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Type: a quote Sub-type: a historical fact (5th cent.) Relevance: prophecy Text: "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9 Other: grades of initiation of a secret society? [...] overthrow, break in pieces, and shake to pieces the grotto of Mithras and all the dreadful images therein? Those I mean by which the worshippers were initiated as Raven, Bridegroom, Soldier, Lion, Perseus, Sun, Crab, and Father? [...] Jerome, St., Letter cvii, to Laeta ( in Philip Schaff; Henry Wace, eds., A Select Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church , 2nd ser., New York: the Christian Literature Company; Oxford and London: Parker & Company, 1893, vol. 6, St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works , p. 190). Online Source: https://archive.org/details/selectlibraryofn06scha Book Images: