The Evidence and Authority of the Christian RevelationAnthony Finley, 1817 - 292 pagina's |
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Pagina 31
... story . To say that Tacitus was upon this subject a disinterested historian , is not enough to explain the preference which you give to his testimony . There is no subject in which the triumph of the christian argument is more ...
... story . To say that Tacitus was upon this subject a disinterested historian , is not enough to explain the preference which you give to his testimony . There is no subject in which the triumph of the christian argument is more ...
Pagina 43
... story itself any inducement which the man could have in publishing it , if it were mainly and substantially false . We might see an expression of honesty , which it is in the power of written lan- guage , as well as of spoken language ...
... story itself any inducement which the man could have in publishing it , if it were mainly and substantially false . We might see an expression of honesty , which it is in the power of written lan- guage , as well as of spoken language ...
Pagina 50
... story of Jesus and of his life was actually written by his disciples . Celsus writes about a hundred years after the alleged time of the publication of this story ; but that it was writ- ten by the companions of this Jesus , is a fact ...
... story of Jesus and of his life was actually written by his disciples . Celsus writes about a hundred years after the alleged time of the publication of this story ; but that it was writ- ten by the companions of this Jesus , is a fact ...
Pagina 52
... story and the publication of Celsus , is fil- led up by antecedent testimonies , which , in all fair- ness , should be counted more decisive of the point in question . They are the testimonies of christian writers , and , in as far as a ...
... story and the publication of Celsus , is fil- led up by antecedent testimonies , which , in all fair- ness , should be counted more decisive of the point in question . They are the testimonies of christian writers , and , in as far as a ...
Pagina 70
... story ; only he gives a different name to Philip , and calls him Herod ; and what adds to the difficulty , there was a Philip of that family , whom we know to have been the first husband of Herodias . This is at first sight a little ...
... story ; only he gives a different name to Philip , and calls him Herod ; and what adds to the difficulty , there was a Philip of that family , whom we know to have been the first husband of Herodias . This is at first sight a little ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 138 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Pagina v - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Pagina 165 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Pagina 144 - I can tell the place in which the blessed Polycarp sat and taught, and his going out and coming in, and the manner of his life, and the form of his person, and the discourses he made to the people ; and how he related his conversation with John, and others who had seen the Lord, and how he related their sayings, and what he had heard...
Pagina 112 - This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our Gods, who teaches many neither to offer sacrifice nor to worship.
Pagina 148 - Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Pagina 174 - Moses; but does Moses ever say, that when God created the heavens and the earth, he did more at the time alluded to than transform, them out of previously existing materials? Or does he ever say, that there was not an interval of many ages betwixt the first act of creation, described in the first verse of the book of Genesis, and said to have been performed at the beginning; and those more detailed operations, the account of which commences at the second verse, and which are described to us as having...
Pagina 195 - It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious agency. But, such is the incomprehensible fact, that the same Being, whose eye is abroad over the whole universe, gives vegetation to every blade of grass, and motion to every particle of blood which circulates through the veins of the minutest animal; that, though his mind takes into its comprehensive grasp immensity and all its wonders, I am as much known to him as...
Pagina 134 - Now to those who regret this circumstance, we beg leave to submit the following observations. Suppose that one other narrative of the life and miracles of our Saviour had been composed, and, to give all the value to this additional testimony of which it is susceptible, let us suppose it to be the work of an apostle. By this last circumstance, we secure...
Pagina 83 - Christians—were provided as a lasting, pure, and authoritative record ; " that they might know the certainty of those things wherein they had been instructed.