Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity, Before the Lowell Institute, January, 1844 |
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... Tacitus , had they personal knowledge ! With how few of the men , whose lives he wrote , had Plutarch personal acquaintance ! In some cases , indeed , in the account of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand , or the Commentaries of Cæsar ...
... Tacitus , had they personal knowledge ! With how few of the men , whose lives he wrote , had Plutarch personal acquaintance ! In some cases , indeed , in the account of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand , or the Commentaries of Cæsar ...
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... Tacitus the heathen , which they would not have given to that of Tacitus the Christian . This is unrea- sonable ; because , if Tacitus had become a Christian , it would , under the circumstances , have implied both sin- cerity and more ...
... Tacitus the heathen , which they would not have given to that of Tacitus the Christian . This is unrea- sonable ; because , if Tacitus had become a Christian , it would , under the circumstances , have implied both sin- cerity and more ...
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... Tacitus , that his silence was not from ignorance , and , inasmuch as he continued a Jew , it thus becomes an indirect testi- mony . He could not say any thing to contradict our books . He says nothing different from our historians ; he ...
... Tacitus , that his silence was not from ignorance , and , inasmuch as he continued a Jew , it thus becomes an indirect testi- mony . He could not say any thing to contradict our books . He says nothing different from our historians ; he ...
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... Tacitus , whose testimony even Gib- bon admits must be received . In connection with an account of the burning of Rome , in the tenth year of Nero , which was imputed by Nero to the Christians , he tells us that Christ was put to death ...
... Tacitus , whose testimony even Gib- bon admits must be received . In connection with an account of the burning of Rome , in the tenth year of Nero , which was imputed by Nero to the Christians , he tells us that Christ was put to death ...
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... Tacitus , in speaking of them , are , " ingens multitudo , " a great multitude . It is obvious , also , from the account of Tacitus , that the Christians were subjected to contempt and the most dreadful sufferings . " Their executions ...
... Tacitus , in speaking of them , are , " ingens multitudo , " a great multitude . It is obvious , also , from the account of Tacitus , that the Christians were subjected to contempt and the most dreadful sufferings . " Their executions ...
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Page 267 - But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him; that the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report ? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...
Page 277 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Page 130 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 56 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, " Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 247 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Page 267 - For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Page 267 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 102 - God shall judge the righteous and the wicked : for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Page 267 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more...
Page 262 - Then he said unto them ; O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.