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... reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . Speak- ing of the fire which happened at Rome ...
... reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . Speak- ing of the fire which happened at Rome ...
Page 43
... reader know what a persecution in these days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , writ- ten by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Polycarp , who , it will be remembered , had lived with ' Clem . ad Cor . e . v . vi ...
... reader know what a persecution in these days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , writ- ten by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Polycarp , who , it will be remembered , had lived with ' Clem . ad Cor . e . v . vi ...
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... reader , who is conversant in these researches , by comparing the short Scripture accounts of the Christian rites above mentioned , with the minute and circumstantial directions contained in the pretend- ed apostolical constitutions ...
... reader , who is conversant in these researches , by comparing the short Scripture accounts of the Christian rites above mentioned , with the minute and circumstantial directions contained in the pretend- ed apostolical constitutions ...
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... reader had before heard of . In Saint John's Gospel , the same point appears from hence , that there are some principal facts to which the historian refers , but which he does not relate . A remarkable instance of this kind is the ...
... reader had before heard of . In Saint John's Gospel , the same point appears from hence , that there are some principal facts to which the historian refers , but which he does not relate . A remarkable instance of this kind is the ...
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... readers knew who John was . His rapid parenthetical reference to John's impri- sonment , for John was not yet cast into prison , could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of considering John's imprisonment as perfectly ...
... readers knew who John was . His rapid parenthetical reference to John's impri- sonment , for John was not yet cast into prison , could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of considering John's imprisonment as perfectly ...
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