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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 4655078, member: 83956&quot;]I think you&#039;re right that this chariot has more to do with Sol than with Christianity--further evidence of the syncretism of Sol and Christ that apparently did not trouble the Romans that much. Even Constantine&#039;s Christian biographer Eusebius speaks of Constantine rising with Sol: &quot;Just as the sun rises and spreads the beams of its light over all, so also Constantine shone forth with the rising sun from the imperial palace, as though ascending with the heavenly luminary, and shed upon all who came before his face the sunbeams of his own generous goodness.” Eusebius, <i>Life of Constantine</i>, 1.43.3.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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