. The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, the dove, floral decorations, the easter egg, and other heathen symbols. The Image of the Gross. 19 the top of the cross, and both gods and mortals werefrequently represented as carrying the cross in theirhands, holding it by this circle. This cross was called inLatin crux ansata cross with a In the Hunebeddeii (Giants graves), in the Provinceof Drenthe, Netherlands, round stones of the s
. The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, the dove, floral decorations, the easter egg, and other heathen symbols. The Image of the Gross. 19 the top of the cross, and both gods and mortals werefrequently represented as carrying the cross in theirhands, holding it by this circle. This cross was called inLatin crux ansata cross with a In the Hunebeddeii (Giants graves), in the Provinceof Drenthe, Netherlands, round stones of the size of ahens esfff have been found bearino- on them crosses incircles.* The cross in the circle is one of the so-called orna-mental crosses which Romanists and Romanizers stillrevere, for they place them in their churches as religiousemblems, as emblems of their faith, and they look uponthem therefore with reverence ; but reverence to an idolis akin to worshipping it. * Arend. Alg. Geschiedenis des Vaderlands, Amsterdam, 1841. 20 The Image of the Gross. No writer of the age and the school of the Apostlesever mentions or alludes to any sign, image or form ofthe Pagan cross, except a certain writer under theassumed name of Barnabas, whose Epistle most criticsconsider to be the production of an unknown author whopublished it under the name of the fellow labourer ofSt, Paul. He is followed by the counterfeit Nicodemus,in the so-called Gospel of Nicodemus. These writers seemto have been half-co
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