The Heathen: Evil of Imitating

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2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
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Ezekiel 11:12
And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
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Period ii. The Post-Apostolic Age: AD 100-AD 140
... The whole multitude both of the heathen and the Jews who dwelt at Smyrna cried out
with uncontrollable ... And this the evil demons imitating, commanded it ...
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How Great are the Benefits Conferred on Man through the Advent of ...
Exhortation to the Heathen. ... let us face the evil one; "the fiery darts of the evil
one" let ... to imitate God, and to serve and worship Him only by imitating Him. ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter xi how great are the.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... for not imitating their example ... art called a Christian, and do likewise, lest the
heathen rise and ... one another, at least how soon would that evil be remedied ...
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Endurance of the World's Censure.
... The evil not only avoids, but persecutes the good ... Christ, and delivered Him to the
heathen governor, Pontius ... yet they have no intention of imitating him, and ...
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The Origin and Nature of Pelagianism.
... was only an ever-increasing facility in imitating vice which ... from so long a schooling
in evil; and all ... to have risen above the essentially heathen view which ...
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Ephesians iv. 32 and v. 1, 2
... if thou shalt forgive trespasses, thou art "imitating God." And ... say anything to prove
the enormity of the evil? ... the two cardinal vices of the heathen which are ...
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Rom. xii. 14
... he did amiss how comest thou not to shun imitating him ... For he does not say, "recompense
not evil" to the believer, but to "no man," be he heathen, be he ...
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The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr.
... through the examples of all good men, by always imitating those who ... would do something
more than the publican or the heathen, who, overcoming evil with good ...
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Letter Lxx. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.
... Paul quotes a line of Menander: "Evil communications corrupt ... whose authority he,
as a heathen, could not ... Imitating his example Origen [2166] wrote ten books of ...
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Appendix xvi. On the Jewish views About Demons' and the Demonised ...
... magical means clave the sea, by way of imitating Moses ... to the house of Joseph over
whom the evil eye has ... outcome of contact with Parsee or other heathen elements ...
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Subtopics

Heathen: Cast out of Canaan

Heathen: Cyrus

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Abimelech

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Balaam

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Belshazzar

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Cornelius

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Cyrus