A Series of Important Facts Demonstrating the Truth of the Christian Religion: Drawn from the Writings of Its Friends and Enemies in the First and Second CenturiesR. Hunter (succ. to Mr. Johnson), 1820 - 215 pages |
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... brought to light , stand in direct opposition to the conclusions of that historian . If true , they will enable me to obtain an easy and signal victory over the most formidable enemy Christianity en- countered either in modern or ...
... brought to light , stand in direct opposition to the conclusions of that historian . If true , they will enable me to obtain an easy and signal victory over the most formidable enemy Christianity en- countered either in modern or ...
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... brought to himself many of the Greeks . And in the Jewish War , book vii . chap . 8 , 3 , he has these words : " The Jews at Antioch were con- tinually bringing over a great multitude of the Greeks to their worship , and making them a ...
... brought to himself many of the Greeks . And in the Jewish War , book vii . chap . 8 , 3 , he has these words : " The Jews at Antioch were con- tinually bringing over a great multitude of the Greeks to their worship , and making them a ...
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... brought under obedience to the Jewish worship . They therefore earnestly endeavoured to conceal their designs from the women : and thus they at- tacked the Jews , who , as being crowded in a narrow place and without arms , were in one ...
... brought under obedience to the Jewish worship . They therefore earnestly endeavoured to conceal their designs from the women : and thus they at- tacked the Jews , who , as being crowded in a narrow place and without arms , were in one ...
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... brought a slave from Colossi to Rome , where , by his unspotted integrity and splen- did talents , he reached a place of great trust and eminence ; where , after he had been disgraced by persecution , he was again restored to honour ...
... brought a slave from Colossi to Rome , where , by his unspotted integrity and splen- did talents , he reached a place of great trust and eminence ; where , after he had been disgraced by persecution , he was again restored to honour ...
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... brought to that justice which superintends the affairs of men . Others of these persecutors cause their snarling fury to assume a different form . Indulging a spirit of unrelenting severity , they address their victims with gentleness ...
... brought to that justice which superintends the affairs of men . Others of these persecutors cause their snarling fury to assume a different form . Indulging a spirit of unrelenting severity , they address their victims with gentleness ...
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Page 74 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Page 25 - For indeed he was sick nigh unto death ; but God had mercy on him ; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Page 61 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 113 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 94 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Page 46 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 50 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Page 21 - When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand), then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.
Page 20 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 183 - And his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.