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Page 55
... Josephus , who 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 ...
... Josephus , who 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 ...
Page 56
... Josephus was designed . For , although we should lay aside the authority of our own books entirely , yet when Tacitus , who wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten , years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was ...
... Josephus was designed . For , although we should lay aside the authority of our own books entirely , yet when Tacitus , who wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten , years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was ...
Page 57
... Josephus lived : -when Pliny , who wrote his celebrated epistle not more than thirty years after the publication of Josephus's history , found the Christians in such numbers in the province of Bithynia , as to draw from him a com ...
... Josephus lived : -when Pliny , who wrote his celebrated epistle not more than thirty years after the publication of Josephus's history , found the Christians in such numbers in the province of Bithynia , as to draw from him a com ...
Page 82
... Josephus or Philo ; that is , there would have been no doubt at all . Now it ought to be considered that this reason , however it may apply to the credit which is given to a writer's judgment or veracity , affects the question of ...
... Josephus or Philo ; that is , there would have been no doubt at all . Now it ought to be considered that this reason , however it may apply to the credit which is given to a writer's judgment or veracity , affects the question of ...
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... Josephus , a Jewish and contemporary historian . This part of the case is perfectly free from doubt . The only question which , in my opinion , can be raised upon the subject , is whether the prophecy was really delivered lefore the ...
... Josephus , a Jewish and contemporary historian . This part of the case is perfectly free from doubt . The only question which , in my opinion , can be raised upon the subject , is whether the prophecy was really delivered lefore the ...
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