...same idea that holiness is a spiritual fact independent of ceremonies or lustrations : " Oh stranger, if holy of soul, enter the shrine of the holy God, having but touched the lustral water : lustration is an easy matter for the good, but aU ocean with its streams cannot cleanse the evil...

...so, from defilement free, they entered the sacred place. As says the Delphic proverb: "Oh, stranger, if holy of soul, Enter the shrine of the holy god...the lustral water. For lustration is an easy matter to the good. But an evil man The whole of Ocean can not cleanse with its streams." "Comest thou a visitor...

...from defilement free, they entered the sacred place. As says the Delphic proverb : " Oh, stranger, if holy of soul, Enter the shrine of the holy god...the lustral water. For lustration is an easy matter to the good. But an evil man The whole of Ocean can not cleanse with its streams." "Comest thou a visitor...

...aversos Penates Farre pio et saliente mica." Still more remarkable the epigrams ascribed to Delphi : " Lustration is an easy matter for the good, but an...the whole of ocean cannot cleanse with its streams " (Farnell, p. 212, and cf. the doctrine of the widow's mite, il>., 210). the fear of magical influences...

...Pythia uttered her warnings against reliance on outward rites instead of inward sanctity: O stranger, if holy of soul, enter the shrine of the holy God, having but touched the lustral water; lustration is an easy matter for the good; but all ocean with its streams cannot cleanse the evil man....