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Hypatia

CHAPTER V: A DAY IN ALEXANDRIA
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Cyril goes down greater than Barak the son of Abinoam, not with ten, but with thirty thousand men at his feet!' 'Ay, my brothers!' said Cyril, as he passed proudly out in full pontificals, with a gorgeous retinue of priests and deacons--'the Catholic Church has her organisation, her unity, her common cause, her watchwords, such as the tyrants of the earth, in their weakness and their divisions, may envy and tremble at, but cannot imitate.

Could Orestes raise, in three hours, thirty thousand men, who would die for him ?' 'As we will for you!' shouted many voices.
'Say for the kingdom of God.' And he passed out.
And so ended Philammon's first day in Alexandria..


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