The Apologeticks of the Learned Athenian Philosopher Athenagoras: Against the Scepticks and Infidels of that Age. Together with a Curious Fragment of Justin Martyr on the Subject of the Resurrection, Not Published in His Works. And Two Other Fragments: the One Attributed to Josephus: the Other to Methodius, Concerning the State of the Dead. Both from Mss. of the Late Reverend Dr. Grabe. With the Original Greek Printed in the Appendix. Done Into English, with Notes. To which are Prefix'd Two Dissertations: the One Concerning the Jewish Notion of the Resurrection: the Other Concerning Athenagoras and His Remains. For the Christian religion. For the truth of the resurrection. I.. II. |
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... conceived it would be effected , was the Invention of their own Imaginations . In the first there- fore , namely , in the plain Doctrine of a Refurrection , however they may fail in the latter , we shall find the defpifed Jem as much ...
... conceived it would be effected , was the Invention of their own Imaginations . In the first there- fore , namely , in the plain Doctrine of a Refurrection , however they may fail in the latter , we shall find the defpifed Jem as much ...
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... conceived it would be , or rather allegorically fhadow'd it out , by saying , GOD would rain down a Dew of a Plaftick Power , which should impregnate the Earth , and vivify the dead Bodies , or their Particles , however difperfed . Thus ...
... conceived it would be , or rather allegorically fhadow'd it out , by saying , GOD would rain down a Dew of a Plaftick Power , which should impregnate the Earth , and vivify the dead Bodies , or their Particles , however difperfed . Thus ...
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... conceiving how the Refurrection would be † But the Chaldee and the Syriack Tranflations , by a little diverfifying the Phrafe , tu : the Matter beyond all Doubt : And if the Hebrew Expreffion be fomething dubious , the above - mention'd ...
... conceiving how the Refurrection would be † But the Chaldee and the Syriack Tranflations , by a little diverfifying the Phrafe , tu : the Matter beyond all Doubt : And if the Hebrew Expreffion be fomething dubious , the above - mention'd ...
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... conceived the Body would be different in those feveral States . If they meant by the World to come the Reign of the Meffiah , they all in general affirm'd , there would be Eating and Drinking , and all the com- mon Offices of Life ...
... conceived the Body would be different in those feveral States . If they meant by the World to come the Reign of the Meffiah , they all in general affirm'd , there would be Eating and Drinking , and all the com- mon Offices of Life ...
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... conceive there can be no corporeal Substance in another " State , the World to come , but only the " Souls of the Juft ... conceived by the Mind in this " prefent State . Here we neither know , " nor defire any but corporeal Pleasures ...
... conceive there can be no corporeal Substance in another " State , the World to come , but only the " Souls of the Juft ... conceived by the Mind in this " prefent State . Here we neither know , " nor defire any but corporeal Pleasures ...
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Page 119 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 57 - He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Page 80 - But man dieth and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 85 - I know that thou canst do every thing, And that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Page 80 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 80 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 154 - That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven : for he maketh his fun to rife on the evil and on the good, and fendeth rain on the juft and on the unjuft.
Page 93 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God, For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Page 80 - Whatfoever thy hand findeth to do,' do it ' with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, ' nor knowledge, nor wifdom, in the grave, whither