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Page 32
... wrote a few years before the younger Pliny ; and as his manner was , made the sufferings of the Christians the subject of his ridicule . † Nothing however could show the notoriety of the fact with more certainty than this does ...
... wrote a few years before the younger Pliny ; and as his manner was , made the sufferings of the Christians the subject of his ridicule . † Nothing however could show the notoriety of the fact with more certainty than this does ...
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... wrote his Antiquities , or history of the Jews , about sixty years after the commencement of Christianity , in a passage generally admitted as genuine , makes mention of John under the name of John the Bap- tist ; that he was a preacher ...
... wrote his Antiquities , or history of the Jews , about sixty years after the commencement of Christianity , in a passage generally admitted as genuine , makes mention of John under the name of John the Bap- tist ; that he was a preacher ...
Page 63
... wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was near thirty years of age , tells us , that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome ; that they derived their ...
... wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was near thirty years of age , tells us , that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome ; that they derived their ...
Page 64
... wrote the life of Constantine , yet omits entirely the most remarkable circumstance in that life , the death of his son Crispus ; undoubtedly for the reason here given . The reserve of Josephus upon the subject of Christianity appears ...
... wrote the life of Constantine , yet omits entirely the most remarkable circumstance in that life , the death of his son Crispus ; undoubtedly for the reason here given . The reserve of Josephus upon the subject of Christianity appears ...
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... wrote under a sense of the notoriety of Christ's ascension , among those by whom his book was likely to be read . The same account must also be given of St. Matthew's omission of the same important fact . The thing was very well known ...
... wrote under a sense of the notoriety of Christ's ascension , among those by whom his book was likely to be read . The same account must also be given of St. Matthew's omission of the same important fact . The thing was very well known ...
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Page 326 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 190 - As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Page 328 - Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Page 193 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains...
Page 204 - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently...
Page 233 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
Page 36 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord Is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 54 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 224 - Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said unto him, " Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another...
Page 42 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.