24-26. silver shrines for--"of"
Diana--small models of the Ephesian temple and of the shrine or chapel
of the goddess, or of the shrine and statue alone, which were purchased
by visitors as memorials of what they had seen, and were carried about
and deposited in houses as a charm. (The models of the chapel of
our Lady of Loretto, and such like, which the Church of Rome
systematically encourages, are such a palpable imitation of this heathen
practice that it is no wonder it should be regarded by impartial judges
as Christianity paganized).
gain to the craftsmen--the master-artificers.
JFB.
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