A View of the Evidences of ChristianityR.Edwards, 1818 - Apologetics |
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... Tacitus says of the Jewish , was more applicable to the heathen establishment : " Hi ritus , quoquo modo inducti , antiquitate defen- duntur . " It was also a splendid and sumptuous worship . It had its priesthood , its endowments , its ...
... Tacitus says of the Jewish , was more applicable to the heathen establishment : " Hi ritus , quoquo modo inducti , antiquitate defen- duntur . " It was also a splendid and sumptuous worship . It had its priesthood , its endowments , its ...
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... Tacitus , well known to every scholar , must be inserted , as deser- ving particular attention . The reader will bear in mind , that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions ...
... Tacitus , well known to every scholar , must be inserted , as deser- ving particular attention . The reader will bear in mind , that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions ...
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... Tacitus , describing the transactions of the same reign , uses these words : " Affecti sup- pliciis Christiani , genus hominum supersti- tionis novæ et maleficæ * . " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mischievous ( or magical ) ...
... Tacitus , describing the transactions of the same reign , uses these words : " Affecti sup- pliciis Christiani , genus hominum supersti- tionis novæ et maleficæ * . " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mischievous ( or magical ) ...
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... Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it should seem , to commemorate the cruelties exer- cised under Nero's government , has the following lines * : " Pone Tigellinum , tæda ...
... Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it should seem , to commemorate the cruelties exer- cised under Nero's government , has the following lines * : " Pone Tigellinum , tæda ...
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... Tacitus of the species of pu- nishment which they were made to un- dergo , I think it sufficiently probable , that these were the executions to which the poet refers . These things , as has already been ob- served , took place within ...
... Tacitus of the species of pu- nishment which they were made to un- dergo , I think it sufficiently probable , that these were the executions to which the poet refers . These things , as has already been ob- served , took place within ...
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Page 85 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 98 - And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they haVe received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.
Page 200 - Nevertheless, among the chief rulers, also, many believed on him : but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue. For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Page 114 - Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Page 145 - For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit : but the Pharisees confess both. 9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees...
Page 128 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word : It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
Page 18 - 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 134 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 111 - And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Page 12 - 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.