A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three PartsChristian Evidence Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1872 - Apologetics - 671 pages |
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... The state of Biblical and Ecclesiastical criticism is not now what it was when Paley wrote , and he would himself have been the first to omit or to amend whatever modern research pronounces erroneous or doubtful . Some of PREFACE . XV.
... The state of Biblical and Ecclesiastical criticism is not now what it was when Paley wrote , and he would himself have been the first to omit or to amend whatever modern research pronounces erroneous or doubtful . Some of PREFACE . XV.
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... wrote a few years before the younger Pliny , and , as his manner was , made the suffer- ings of the Christians the subject of his ridicule . Nothing , however , could show the notoriety of the fact with more certainty than this does ...
... wrote a few years before the younger Pliny , and , as his manner was , made the suffer- ings of the Christians the subject of his ridicule . Nothing , however , could show the notoriety of the fact with more certainty than this does ...
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... wrote his Anti- Greeks , and worship this Master of theirs who was cruci- fied , and engage to live according to His laws . They have also a sovereign contempt for all the things of this world , and look upon them as common . " - Lucian ...
... wrote his Anti- Greeks , and worship this Master of theirs who was cruci- fied , and engage to live according to His laws . They have also a sovereign contempt for all the things of this world , and look upon them as common . " - Lucian ...
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... wrote not twenty , per- haps not ten , years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was nearly thirty years of age , tells us , that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome ; that they 8 Antiq . , 1 ...
... wrote not twenty , per- haps not ten , years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was nearly thirty years of age , tells us , that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome ; that they 8 Antiq . , 1 ...
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... wrote his celebrated epistle not more than thirty years after the publication of Josephus ' 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 Josephus ' 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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Page 319 - they shall lay their hands on you, and ' persecute you, delivering you up to the ' synagogues, and into prisons, being brought ' before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
Page 324 - 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 564 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 393 - The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Page 463 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city...
Page 407 - When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Page 115 - 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 84 - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries...
Page 556 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 576 - Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same : for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.