The Hibbert LecturesUniversity Press, 1890 - Religion |
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... effects , but scanty in regard to the process of change . We have ample evidence in regard to the state of Greek thought during the ante - Nicene period . The writers shine with a dim and pallid light when put side by side with the ...
... effects , but scanty in regard to the process of change . We have ample evidence in regard to the state of Greek thought during the ante - Nicene period . The writers shine with a dim and pallid light when put side by side with the ...
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... effects were produced is singularly imperfect . If we look at the literature of the schools of thought which ultimately became dominant , we find that it consists for the most part of some accidental survivals.1 It tells us about some ...
... effects were produced is singularly imperfect . If we look at the literature of the schools of thought which ultimately became dominant , we find that it consists for the most part of some accidental survivals.1 It tells us about some ...
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... effects that were produced . Writers of the stamp of Justin and Irenæus are wholly inadequate to account for either the conversion of the educated world to Christianity , or for the forms which Christianity assumed when the educated ...
... effects that were produced . Writers of the stamp of Justin and Irenæus are wholly inadequate to account for either the conversion of the educated world to Christianity , or for the forms which Christianity assumed when the educated ...
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... effects ; but we have only scanty information as to the intermediate processes . If the evidence as to those processes existed in greater mass , if the writings of those who made the first tenta- tive efforts to give to Christianity a ...
... effects ; but we have only scanty information as to the intermediate processes . If the evidence as to those processes existed in greater mass , if the writings of those who made the first tenta- tive efforts to give to Christianity a ...
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causes , by viewing them in relation to the effects , and by considering how far they were adequate in respect of both mass and complexity to produce those effects . There is a consideration in favour of this method which is in entire ...
causes , by viewing them in relation to the effects , and by considering how far they were adequate in respect of both mass and complexity to produce those effects . There is a consideration in favour of this method which is in entire ...
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Page 169 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 47 - Libanius, there was a y'//J</)irr/irt (Liban. defort. sua, vol. ip 59), which points to an assimilation of Athenian usage in his time to that which is mentioned in the following note. 2 This was fixed by a law of Julian in 362, which, however, states it as a concession on the part of the Emperor : " quia singulis civitatibus adesse ipse non possum, jubeo quisquis docere vult non repente nee temere prosiliat ad hoc munus sed judicio ordinis probatus decretum curialium mereatur, optimorum conspirante...
Page 252 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.