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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 2, 2 A (shelfmark LH 1, 2, 2a)
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et serpens Mosis, itemque alio cherubini, et baces et
leones Salomonis plerique etiam in loco sacro po-
siti, partim cussi, partim probati leguntur. Et quan-
quam sub mitia Christianismi aut nullas, aut perraras
in oratorus fuisse imagines probabilius videatur;
onius errim nmaginis Christi sub habitu bonri pa–
storis ovem errantem requirentis sacris calici–
bus insculpti mentio reperitur apud Tertullianum;
paulatim tamen fuisse receptas, negari non potest,
Ce
Et apud sunctum Gregorium nysse Episcopum, de
scribitur pictura laborum martyris cujusdam in
pariete topli artificiosae expressa. Ut alia nunc lo-
ca non attingam.
Qual vero altinet ipsam venerationem nmaginum,
negari non potest, metu superstitionis diu inde ab-
stinuisse Christianos, praefertim cum adhuc passim
pagani ipsis mixti essent. Tandem obi in maxima
noti cultigue orbis parte Daemonum cultus prosti–
gatus suit, nec iam amplius Dii nisi per iocum
memorantur; nulla amplius causa granibus nam
viris visa est, cur imagines, alphabetum idiota-
rum, magnumqua rudis populi ad pietatem inci–
tamentum, a cultu excluderentur. Fluctuatum
tamen diuu suisse, monstrant certamina Orientis ico
noclastica, et oppositiones Francofordiensium na-
quin
trum: a et Ris vetustior sanctus Goegorius cogno-
mento magnus, Romanae Ecclesiae Pontisem, variasse visut