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Page 23
... reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in ...
... reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in ...
Page 50
... reader know what a persecution in these days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , written by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Polycarp , who , it will be remem- bered , had lived with Saint John ; and which letter ...
... reader know what a persecution in these days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , written by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Polycarp , who , it will be remem- bered , had lived with Saint John ; and which letter ...
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... reader who is conversant in these re- searches , by comparing the short Scripture ac- counts of the Christian rites above - mentioned , with the minute and circumstantial directions contained in the pretended apostolical constitu- tions ...
... reader who is conversant in these re- searches , by comparing the short Scripture ac- counts of the Christian rites above - mentioned , with the minute and circumstantial directions contained in the pretended apostolical constitu- tions ...
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... reader had before heard of . In Saint John's Gospel , the same point appears hence , that there are some principal facts , to which the his- torian refers , but which he does not relate . A re- markable instance of this kind is the ...
... reader had before heard of . In Saint John's Gospel , the same point appears hence , that there are some principal facts , to which the his- torian refers , but which he does not relate . A re- markable instance of this kind is the ...
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... readers knew who John was . His rapid parenthetical reference to John's im- prisonment , " for John was not yet cast into prison , " could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of considering John's im- prisonment as ...
... readers knew who John was . His rapid parenthetical reference to John's im- prisonment , " for John was not yet cast into prison , " could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of considering John's im- prisonment as ...
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