The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels, Volume 1

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J. Chapman, 1847 - Bible

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Page 113 - And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 9 - Luke, before the end of the second and the beginning of the third century.
Page 270 - 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 vii - At last, at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century...
Page 230 - Why reason ye these things in your hearts ? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee ; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk ? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins...
Page 70 - The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as it is written in Esaias the prophet.
Page 295 - I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye. would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Page 269 - We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life...
Page 199 - Jonah the prophet : for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 294 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, ' If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets' Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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