Evidences of ChristianityJ. F. Dove, 1826 - 336 pages |
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Page 18
... 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 . Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in ...
... 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 . Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in ...
Page 39
... reader know what a persecution in these days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , written by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Poly- carp , who , it will be remembered , had lived with Saint John ; and which letter ...
... reader know what a persecution in these days was , I would refer him to a circular letter , written by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Poly- carp , who , it will be remembered , had lived with Saint John ; and which letter ...
Page 57
... reader , who is conversant in these researches , by com- paring the short Scripture accounts of the Christian rites above mentioned , with the minute and eircumstantial directions con- tained in the pretended apostolical constitutions ...
... reader , who is conversant in these researches , by com- paring the short Scripture accounts of the Christian rites above mentioned , with the minute and eircumstantial directions con- tained in the pretended apostolical constitutions ...
Page 58
... reader had before heard of . In Saint John's In Saint John's Gospel , the same point appears hence , that there are some principal facts to which the historian refers , but which he does not relate . A remarkable instance of this kind ...
... reader had before heard of . In Saint John's In Saint John's Gospel , the same point appears hence , that there are some principal facts to which the historian refers , but which he does not relate . A remarkable instance of this kind ...
Page 59
... readers knew who John was . His rapid parenthetical re ference to John's imprisonment , 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 re ference to John's imprisonment , 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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