05-02-2010, 04:41 AM
What means the word "unquenchable" in ancient time
Strabo calls the lamp in the Parthenon, and Plutarch calls the sacred fire of a temple
"unquenchable," though they were extinguished ages ago. Josephus says that the fire on the altar
of the temple at Jerusalem was "always unquenchable," asbeston aei, though the fire had gone
out and the temple was destroyed at the time of his writing. Eusebius says that certain martyrs of
Alexandria "were burned in unquenchable fire," though it was extinguished in the course of an
hour, the very insult in English, which Homer has in Greek, asbestos gelos, (Iliad, 1: 599),
unquenchable laughter.
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Strabo calls the lamp in the Parthenon, and Plutarch calls the sacred fire of a temple
"unquenchable," though they were extinguished ages ago. Josephus says that the fire on the altar
of the temple at Jerusalem was "always unquenchable," asbeston aei, though the fire had gone
out and the temple was destroyed at the time of his writing. Eusebius says that certain martyrs of
Alexandria "were burned in unquenchable fire," though it was extinguished in the course of an
hour, the very insult in English, which Homer has in Greek, asbestos gelos, (Iliad, 1: 599),
unquenchable laughter.
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