{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010559.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010559.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010559.htm","text":"Chapter XL.\u2014Of the Number of his Offerings.\nThis temple, then, the emperor erected as a conspicuous monument of the Saviour\u2019s resurrection, and embellished it throughout on an imperial scale of magnificence. He further enriched it with numberless offerings of inexpressible beauty and various materials,\u2014gold, silver, and precious stones, the skillful and elaborate arrangement of which, in regard to their magnitude, number, and variety, we have not leisure at present to describe particularly. 3272\nSome idea of various features of this building may be gathered from the cuts and descriptions of other basilicas in Fergusson, History of Architecture, 1 (1874), 400 sq.; L\u00fcbke, Geschichte der Architektur, 1 (Lpg. 1875), 229 sq.; Langl.\u2019s series of Bilder zur Geschichte, &c.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius.: Chapter XL","type":"page"}