The most intellectual of the reformers abhorred the deification of the reason, and clung to that exalted supernaturalism which was the life and hope of blessed saints and martyrs in bygone ages, and which in "their contests with mail-clad infidelity was like the pebble which the shepherd of Israel hurled against the disdainful boaster who defied the power of Israel's God."

DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY 70 Antoninus Pius, succeeding by adoption, effects the deification of Hadrian (chapter 1).

One section of the frescoes in the canopy of the dome on our national capitol, represents the deification of Washington.