Note 088
From Chapter 28 of the Decline & Fall

Faustus the Manichaean accuses the Catholics of idolatry.

Vertitis idola in martyres . . . quos votis similibus colitis. M. de Beausobre (Hist. Critique du Manicheisme, tom. ii. p. 629-700),

a protestant, but a philosopher, has represented, with candour and learning, the introduction of Christian idolatry in the fourth and fifth centuries.

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