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On the Theophania
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843
Who moreover, tacitly, and by means of His invisible power, has abolished those …
Who moreover, tacitly, and by means of His invisible power, has abolished those sacrifices which were completed with blood, impurity, smoke, and fire?—those abominable shrines also for the slaughter of men; and so provided, that human sacrifices should no more be offered, and these things be no more done?—that the writings of the Greeks also should attest, that it was not from ancient times, but (only) after the divine teaching of our Saviour, in the times of Hadrian, that human sacrifices ceased throughout the whole earth?