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... Tacitus says of the Jewish was more applicable to the heathen establishment: “Hi ritus, quoquo modo inducti, antiquitate defenduntur.” It was also a splendid and sumptuous worship. It had its priesthood, its endowments, its temples ...
... Tacitus says of the Jewish was more applicable to the heathen establishment: “Hi ritus, quoquo modo inducti, antiquitate defenduntur.” It was also a splendid and sumptuous worship. It had its priesthood, its endowments, its temples ...
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... Tacitus, well known to every scholar, must be inserted, as deserving 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 which ...
... Tacitus, well known to every scholar, must be inserted, as deserving 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 which ...
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... Tacitus, describing the transactions of the same reign, uses these words: “Affecti suppliciis Christiani genus hominum superstitionis novae et maleficae.” (Suet. Nero. Cap. 16) “The Christians, a set of men of a new and mischievous (or ...
... Tacitus, describing the transactions of the same reign, uses these words: “Affecti suppliciis Christiani genus hominum superstitionis novae et maleficae.” (Suet. Nero. Cap. 16) “The Christians, a set of men of a new and mischievous (or ...
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... Tacitus of the species of punishment which they were made to undergo, I think it sufficiently probable that these were the executions to which the poet refers. These things, as has already been observed, took place within thirty-one ...
... Tacitus of the species of punishment which they were made to undergo, I think it sufficiently probable that these were the executions to which the poet refers. These things, as has already been observed, took place within thirty-one ...
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... Tacitus has recorded. They then proceed to tell us that the religion was, notwithstanding, set forth at this same city of Jerusalem, propagated thence throughout Judea, and afterwards preached in other parts of the Roman Empire. These ...
... Tacitus has recorded. They then proceed to tell us that the religion was, notwithstanding, set forth at this same city of Jerusalem, propagated thence throughout Judea, and afterwards preached in other parts of the Roman Empire. These ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER IV | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER IX | |
The Scriptures were in very early Times collected | |
Were publicly read and expounded in the religious | |
They were received by ancient Christians | |
The four Gospels the Acts of the Apostles thirteen | |
Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
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