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... heathen countries Probability of miraculous interference Objections from experience considered Unbelief of the Jewish people , considered . CHAPTER XI . FIRST RECEPTION OF CHRISTIANITY Change of moral character , in first Christians ...
... heathen countries Probability of miraculous interference Objections from experience considered Unbelief of the Jewish people , considered . CHAPTER XI . FIRST RECEPTION OF CHRISTIANITY Change of moral character , in first Christians ...
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... heathen gods ; and they were so numerous , that Clau- dius judged it most advisable to check them , by ordering what he thought would be most effectual for this pur- * pose , and forbidding their religious meetings . This 18 ON THE ...
... heathen gods ; and they were so numerous , that Clau- dius judged it most advisable to check them , by ordering what he thought would be most effectual for this pur- * pose , and forbidding their religious meetings . This 18 ON THE ...
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... heathens for a sort of Judaism ; a mistake easily accounted for : as also the error of the common word for the uncommon χριστος . Χρήστος , Tacitus , Annal . xv . 44 . Christian Churches , in Bithynia and Pontus , as con- THE CHRISTIAN ...
... heathens for a sort of Judaism ; a mistake easily accounted for : as also the error of the common word for the uncommon χριστος . Χρήστος , Tacitus , Annal . xv . 44 . Christian Churches , in Bithynia and Pontus , as con- THE CHRISTIAN ...
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... heathen.t Against this feeling a few men , themselves of the same country , having learnt nothing from foreign intercourse , imbued from their infancy with the same prejudices , stand up alone ; take upon themselves the character of ...
... heathen.t Against this feeling a few men , themselves of the same country , having learnt nothing from foreign intercourse , imbued from their infancy with the same prejudices , stand up alone ; take upon themselves the character of ...
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... heathen writers as allude to them at all , as being no less singular and exclusive in their speculative creed than in their national wor- ship . In consequence of this marked difference from the nations by which they were surrounded ...
... heathen writers as allude to them at all , as being no less singular and exclusive in their speculative creed than in their national wor- ship . In consequence of this marked difference from the nations by which they were surrounded ...
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