Reasons for the Hope that is in Us: A Series of Essays on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, the Immortality of the Soul, and Other Important Subjects, Adapted to the Understanding of Young PersonsH. Constable, 1831 - 263 страници |
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... Tacitus and Pliny both bear testimony to the great number of Christians who were in the Roman empire , at no distant period from the time when Christ is understood to have suffered . Nero began to reign about twenty years after the ...
... Tacitus and Pliny both bear testimony to the great number of Christians who were in the Roman empire , at no distant period from the time when Christ is understood to have suffered . Nero began to reign about twenty years after the ...
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... Tacitus mentions the name of Christ as the founder of the religion ; adding , that " he was put to death under Pontius Pilate , who was procurator of Judea in the time of Tiberius . " It is further well known , that the acts of Pilate ...
... Tacitus mentions the name of Christ as the founder of the religion ; adding , that " he was put to death under Pontius Pilate , who was procurator of Judea in the time of Tiberius . " It is further well known , that the acts of Pilate ...
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... Tacitus and Pliny , were once Heathens ; and that it surely ought not to derogate from their testimony to the Christian religion , that they had themselves shown their belief of it by becoming converts to it . Suppose that , in addition ...
... Tacitus and Pliny , were once Heathens ; and that it surely ought not to derogate from their testimony to the Christian religion , that they had themselves shown their belief of it by becoming converts to it . Suppose that , in addition ...
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... Tacitus state , that such expectation of him was to be found in the ancient books of the priests ; and the latter of these writers , treating of the great prodigies that preceded the destruction of Jerusalem , says , that many ...
... Tacitus state , that such expectation of him was to be found in the ancient books of the priests ; and the latter of these writers , treating of the great prodigies that preceded the destruction of Jerusalem , says , that many ...
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... assertion of being sent from heaven by the * This historical fact is mentioned by Tacitus , ( Annals , lib . vi . 12 , ) and by Lactantius . working of great miracles , some of which he himself 154 AN ENLIGHTENED HEATHEN'S.
... assertion of being sent from heaven by the * This historical fact is mentioned by Tacitus , ( Annals , lib . vi . 12 , ) and by Lactantius . working of great miracles , some of which he himself 154 AN ENLIGHTENED HEATHEN'S.
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Страница 109 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
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Страница 161 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Страница 48 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Страница 46 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Страница 30 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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Страница 216 - ... by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than that in which it was introduced, to wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears the marks of having come from a being who perfectly understood the human mind, and had power to provide for its progress. This feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future...