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xystus
[ zis-tuhs ]
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"And Adrian being now in the twelfth year of his reign, Xystus, who had now completed the tenth year of his episcopate, was succeeded by Telesphorus."
Prefect of Egypt, 13, 35, 43, 50Saracens, 41Sarapion, case of, 26, 42 f.Soldiers as Christians, 40, 63Sophocles referred to, 100Stephen, Bishop of Rome, 15, 34, 53, 54Swete, Dr., 23, 78Synnada, Synod of, 15, 55, 58Syria, Churches of, 52 Taposiris, 13, 16, 44Thelymidrus, Bishop of Laodicea, 52Theoctistus, Bishop of Cæsarea, 52Theophilus, a martyr, 40Theotecnus, Bishop of Cæsarea, 29Thucydides quoted, 28, 71Timotheus, a boy, 11, 44, 64Trullo, Council in, 76, 78 Valerian, Emperor, 14, 16, 17, 47, 65 Westcott, Bishop, 23, 24, 78 Xystus II, Bishop of Rome, 19, 54 ff.,
For in beholding the loveliness and glory of God, all time is swallowed up; so that the more any one sees God, the more he desires to see him; the more he loves God, the more he will love; and the more he praises God, the more will he praise him; according to the words of Xystus, an ancient teacher: “Devout souls can never be satiated with the love and praise of God.”
The private part comprised the peristyle, bed-chambers, triclinium, œci, picture-gallery, library, baths, exedra, xystus, etc.
Passing through the tablinum, we enter the portico of the xystus, or garden, a spot small in extent, but full of ornament and of beauty, though not that sort of beauty which the notion of a garden suggests to us.
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