t passim_.

172 The idea that Moses defeated the Amalekites because his arms were
outstretched in the form of a cross is found also in one of the hymns
(lxi.) of Gregory Nazianzen. The symbol of the Christian religion,
the cross, "was fancifully traced by the Fathers throughout the
universe: the four points of the compass, the 'height, breadth,
length and depth' of the Apostle expressed, or were expressed by,
the cross.... The cross explained everything" (Maitland, _Church in
the Catacombs_, p. 202).

193 The discomfiture of the heathen gods wrought by the Incarnation
is elaborated by Milton, whose lines recall this and similar passages
in Prudentius:--

"Peor, and Baaelim
Forsake their temples dim

* * * * *

And sullen Moloch fled,
Hath left in shadows dread,
His burning idol all of blackest hue.

Our Babe, to show his Godhead true,
Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew."

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