A Series of Important Facts Demonstrating the Truth of the Christian Religion: Drawn from the Writings of Its Friends and Enemies in the First and Second CenturiesR. Hunter (succ. to Mr. Johnson), 1820 - 215 pages |
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... Apollonius , Manetho , Apion , Helicon , and others , who fur- nished materials for ridiculing and calumniating the Jews . " The Jews , we are told , " says he , " were natives of the isle of Crete . At the time when Saturn was driven ...
... Apollonius , Manetho , Apion , Helicon , and others , who fur- nished materials for ridiculing and calumniating the Jews . " The Jews , we are told , " says he , " were natives of the isle of Crete . At the time when Saturn was driven ...
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... Apollonius Tyaneus , a philosopher of some eminence in the days of Nero and afterwards . Vespasian , in his return to Rome , met him at Alexandria , and consulted him as one who pretended to know future events . Josephus had already ...
... Apollonius Tyaneus , a philosopher of some eminence in the days of Nero and afterwards . Vespasian , in his return to Rome , met him at Alexandria , and consulted him as one who pretended to know future events . Josephus had already ...
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... Apollonius Tyaneus with , and to prefer him before , our Sa- viour and that this was the use commonly made by the Pagans of this history of Philostratus ap- pears in sundry ways . ' Lardner , however , is of opinion that Philostratus ...
... Apollonius Tyaneus with , and to prefer him before , our Sa- viour and that this was the use commonly made by the Pagans of this history of Philostratus ap- pears in sundry ways . ' Lardner , however , is of opinion that Philostratus ...
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... Apollonius converses with her divine visitant without terror . lib . i . cap . 4 . Jesus though proclaimed the beloved Son of God by a voice from heaven , yet called himself the Son of man . Apollonius was called by the natives the son ...
... Apollonius converses with her divine visitant without terror . lib . i . cap . 4 . Jesus though proclaimed the beloved Son of God by a voice from heaven , yet called himself the Son of man . Apollonius was called by the natives the son ...
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... Apollonius was distinguish- ed by the same purity of conduct . lib . i . c . 13 . " Our Saviour increased in wisdom and stature , and in favour with God and man . " So Apollonius is de- scribed as giving , in his rising years ...
... Apollonius was distinguish- ed by the same purity of conduct . lib . i . c . 13 . " Our Saviour increased in wisdom and stature , and in favour with God and man . " So Apollonius is de- scribed as giving , in his rising years ...
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Page 74 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Page 25 - For indeed he was sick nigh unto death ; but God had mercy on him ; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Page 61 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 113 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 94 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Page 46 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 50 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Page 21 - When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand), then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.
Page 20 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 183 - And his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.