{"collection":"Christian Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_008_0080098_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_008_0080098_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_008_0080098_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080098.htm","summary":"Chapter XXXVI.\u2014Allowance of Sacrifice for a Time. \u201cWhen meantime Moses, that faithful and wise steward, perceived that the vice of sacrificing to idols had been deeply ingrained into the people from their association with the Egyptians, and that the root of this evil could not be extracted from them, he allowed them indeed to sacrifice, but permitted it to be done only to God, that by any means he might cut off one half of the deeply ingrained evil, leaving the other half to be corrected by\u2026","tags":["Ante-Nicene Fathers","Christian Apocrypha","Clementine Literature"],"text":null,"title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XXXVI","tradition":"Christian Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":144}