Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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... if the Christians were guilty , they should be legally brought to trial , and not be pursued by importunity and clamour . Lard . Heath . Test . v . ii . p . 110 . Martial Martial wrote a few years before the younger Pliny ;. 48.
... if the Christians were guilty , they should be legally brought to trial , and not be pursued by importunity and clamour . Lard . Heath . Test . v . ii . p . 110 . Martial Martial wrote a few years before the younger Pliny ;. 48.
Page 49
William Paley. Martial wrote a few years before the younger Pliny ; and , as his manner was , made the sufferings of the Christians the subject of his ridicule * . Nothing how- ever could shew the notoriety of the fact with more ...
William Paley. Martial wrote a few years before the younger Pliny ; and , as his manner was , made the sufferings of the Christians the subject of his ridicule * . Nothing how- ever could shew the notoriety of the fact with more ...
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... wrote his Antiquities , or History of the Jews , about sixty years after the commencement of Christianity , in a passage generally admitted as genuine , makes mention of John under the name of John the Baptist ; that he was a preacher ...
... wrote his Antiquities , or History of the Jews , about sixty years after the commencement of Christianity , in a passage generally admitted as genuine , makes mention of John under the name of John the Baptist ; that he was a preacher ...
Page 113
... wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten , years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was near thirty years of age , tells us , that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome ; that they derived their ...
... wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten , years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was near thirty years of age , tells us , that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome ; that they derived their ...
Page 114
... wrote his celebrated epistle not more than thirty years after the publication of Jose- phus's history , found the Christians in such numbers in the province of Bithynia , as to draw from him a complaint , that the contagion had seized ...
... wrote his celebrated epistle not more than thirty years after the publication of Jose- phus's history , found the Christians in such numbers in the province of Bithynia , as to draw from him a complaint , that the contagion had seized ...
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