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... Rome in the time of Nero , and of the suspi- eions which were entertained that the emperor himself was concerned in causing it , the histo- rian proceeds in his narrative and observations thus : " But neither these exertions , nor his ...
... Rome in the time of Nero , and of the suspi- eions which were entertained that the emperor himself was concerned in causing it , the histo- rian proceeds in his narrative and observations thus : " But neither these exertions , nor his ...
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... Rome . From which fact , the two following inferences may be fairly drawn : first , that if , in the space of thirty - four years from its commencement , the religion had spread throughout Judea , had extended itself to Rome , and there ...
... Rome . From which fact , the two following inferences may be fairly drawn : first , that if , in the space of thirty - four years from its commencement , the religion had spread throughout Judea , had extended itself to Rome , and there ...
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... Rome who alone suffered , it is probable that Suetonius refers to some more general persecu- tion than the short and occasional one which Ta- citus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it ...
... Rome who alone suffered , it is probable that Suetonius refers to some more general persecu- tion than the short and occasional one which Ta- citus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it ...
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... Rome , and that it had there great multitudes of converts : and all this within thirty years after its commencement . Now these facts afford a strong inference in behalf of the proposi tion which we maintain . What could the disci ples ...
... Rome , and that it had there great multitudes of converts : and all this within thirty years after its commencement . Now these facts afford a strong inference in behalf of the proposi tion which we maintain . What could the disci ples ...
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... Rome . He reached Italy , after a tedious voyage , and after encountering in his passage the perils of a desperate shipwreck . § But although still a prisoner , and his fate still de- pending , neither the various and long - continued ...
... Rome . He reached Italy , after a tedious voyage , and after encountering in his passage the perils of a desperate shipwreck . § But although still a prisoner , and his fate still de- pending , neither the various and long - continued ...
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