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To: C19fan

Interesting article, but the author needs to retread his bible, if he owns one:
“One type of wild animal show, known as damnatio ad bestias became a trope of Christian martyr stories, like Daniel and the lions den.”


4 posted on 03/30/2016 7:40:56 AM PDT by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning.)
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To: I-ambush
The expression was Christianos ad leonem. Tertullian asks, "What? All of them to one lion?"
6 posted on 03/30/2016 9:14:57 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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