"Self-produced" Quotes from Famous Books
... "To denote an only begotten, or, generation, or, a father, or, the world, or, a man, they delineate a scarabaeus. And they symbolize by this, an only begotten; because the scarabaeus is a creature self-produced, being unconceived by a female; for the propagation of it is unique and after this manner:—when the male is desirous of procreating, he takes the dung of an ox, and shapes it into a spherical form like the world; he then rolls it from him by the hinder parts from East to West, ... — Scarabs • Isaac Myer |