Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion Synopsis

Excerpt from Androcles and the Lion: A Fable Play

I say distinctive, because his common humanity and his subjection to time and space (that is, to the Syrian life of his period) involved his belief in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from other Syrians of that time. But such common beliefs do not constitute specific Christianity any more than wearing a beard, work ing in a carpenter's shop, or believing that the earth 1s flat and that the stars could drop on it from heaven like hail stones. Christianity interests practical statesmen now be cause of the doctrines that distinguished Christ from the Jews and the Barabbasques generally, including ourselves.

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