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The idolaters expected the river would swell nomore: but finding the succeeding years very fertile, they condemned thevanity of their superstitions, and embraced the faith. Thomas the Apostle, a decree was issued by which the order wasestablished in Italy under the form of a province. This scandalous example wasthe occasion of several governors and other powerful men divorcing theirwives, or taking more than one at the same time, and gave greatencouragement to public lewdness. ould not offend God by passion;and, in order to appease her, gave her the value of her loss, which hehad begged of his mother for that purpose.
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