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| Nicolas Poussin, the golden calf |
The best way to make people forget an idolatrous rite is to put another rite in its place.
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| Enguerand Quarton, piéta |
The Christians followed the same principle by building their churches on the ruins of pagan temples and by observing their feasts on the dates of pagan festivals.
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| Hanri Jacobs, midi / solange, paysage losange |
For the same reason, Moses had to institute many dietary and sacrificial prescriptions in order to occupy the terrain held by the Sabians and their idolatrous ways,
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| Henri Jacobs, quartet |
"so that all these rites and cults that they practised for the sake of the idols, they now came to practise in the honor of god."
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| Henri Jacobs, two drawings of a symbolon |
The divine strategy was so successful that the Sabians and their once mighty community fell into oblivion. (Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian)
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