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Page 43
... reader will bear in mind that this paffage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to tranfactions which took place about thirty years after that event . Speaking of the fire which hap- pened at Rome ...
... reader will bear in mind that this paffage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to tranfactions which took place about thirty years after that event . Speaking of the fire which hap- pened at Rome ...
Page 93
... reader know what a perfecu tion in thefe days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , written by the church of Smyrna foon after the death of Polycarp , who , it will be remembered , had lived with St. John ; and which letter is ...
... reader know what a perfecu tion in thefe days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , written by the church of Smyrna foon after the death of Polycarp , who , it will be remembered , had lived with St. John ; and which letter is ...
Page 135
... reader who is converfant in these researches , by comparing the fhort fcripture accounts of the Chrif- tian rites above mentioned with the minute and circum- ftantial directions contained in the pretended apoftolical conftitutions ...
... reader who is converfant in these researches , by comparing the fhort fcripture accounts of the Chrif- tian rites above mentioned with the minute and circum- ftantial directions contained in the pretended apoftolical conftitutions ...
Page 137
... reader had before heard of . In St. John's Gospel , the same point appears from hence , that there are some principal facts , to which the hiftorian refers , " but which he does not relate . A remarkable instance of this kind is the ...
... reader had before heard of . In St. John's Gospel , the same point appears from hence , that there are some principal facts , to which the hiftorian refers , " but which he does not relate . A remarkable instance of this kind is the ...
Page 138
... are the follow- ing His manner of introducing his narra- tive , ( ch . i . v . 15. ) " John bare witness of him , and cried , faying , " evidently prefuppofes * John xx . 17 . that His that his readers knew who John was , rapid [ 138 ]
... are the follow- ing His manner of introducing his narra- tive , ( ch . i . v . 15. ) " John bare witness of him , and cried , faying , " evidently prefuppofes * John xx . 17 . that His that his readers knew who John was , rapid [ 138 ]
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