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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...she saw him bright and happy; the cistern only reached his waist and he drank and played with the water. As she belonged to a pagan family her child brother had evidently been unbaptized; his spirit desired baptism after death and her prayers accomplished what the vicarious baptism of apostolic times had sought.' The commemorations for the dead, alluded to by Ter ' Sophoclis Antig. 450-7.--Plutarchi Vit. Aristidis. 2 Luciani de Luctu 7, 8, 9. Cf. Odysseze XI. 23 sqq. 3 Mommsen's Rome, I. 189. ' F estus s. v. Sine sacris.--Pauli Sentt. Receptt. I. xxi. 10, 11.--Virg. ZEneid. VI. 224-7; X. 517--20; XI. 80-4.--Lucani Pharsal. VIII. 751.--Statii Thebaid. VI. 126. 5 Festus s. vv. Rcapereum, Fabam.--Macrob. Sat. 1. 10.--Varro ap. Macrob. I. 4.--Virg. Eneid. v. 77-80.--Plutarchi Cato Major, xv. 3.--Ovid. Fastor. II. 532-66.--Ciceronis de Legibus II. 8, 9, 19, 20. I II.--21 ' I. Cor. xv. 29. " Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? Why are they then baptized for them?" There is also a symbolical allusion to baptism after death in the Shepherd of Hermas, Lib. III. Vis. ix. n. 16. "' Apology of Aristides Ch. xv. (Rendel Harris's Transl. p. 50).--Doctrine of Addai the Apostle (Phillips's Translation, p. 47). ' Tertull. de Corona Militis Cap. 3; de Monogam. Cap. 10; de Exhort. Castitat. Cap. 11. The oblation rendered the soul for which it was offered a participant in the mysteries of the Eucharist. ' Passionis SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis Cap. II. Q 3, 4. This celebrated case is one of the main arguments of the Church to prove early belief in purgatory, it being assumed that Dinocrates was there and was released by the...