Реферат: Excerpts From Joseph Freeman

terrible chastisement which the church had at its disposal–the power to cast the sinner

out of the fold, to exile him into the greatest loneliness known to man, leaving

him utterly abandoned, utterly hopeless in the outer darkness whose borders led to

infinity? And how could I make anyone today believe that this awful power affected the

greatest as well as the humblest? It was at this moment that the second story about St.

Ambrose and the Emperor Theodosius leaped to my mind, and I set it down hastily in my

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