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Page xvii
... probably completed , as we shall see , between A.D. 60—70 , and if in a hundred years from that time the Christians of Europe can quote from it as a book well known to their brethren in Asia we may feel quite sure that it had been in ...
... probably completed , as we shall see , between A.D. 60—70 , and if in a hundred years from that time the Christians of Europe can quote from it as a book well known to their brethren in Asia we may feel quite sure that it had been in ...
Page xxiv
... probably been unnamed by that writer because the rebellion in which Theudas was concerned was comprised under the general description that he gives of the numerous outbreaks with which Judæa was at that time disturbed . Again , the ...
... probably been unnamed by that writer because the rebellion in which Theudas was concerned was comprised under the general description that he gives of the numerous outbreaks with which Judæa was at that time disturbed . Again , the ...
Page xxvi
... probably not later than A.D. 66. About the latter year St Paul was martyred at Rome , and had the writer of the Acts known of that event it is very difficult to imagine that he should have made no allusion to it in such passages as ...
... probably not later than A.D. 66. About the latter year St Paul was martyred at Rome , and had the writer of the Acts known of that event it is very difficult to imagine that he should have made no allusion to it in such passages as ...
Page xxviii
... probably unknown to St Luke . There are , however , some points in the history , which he has given us , that derive support from the Epistles . Thus the provision for widows , alluded to Acts vi . I , was a new feature of social ...
... probably unknown to St Luke . There are , however , some points in the history , which he has given us , that derive support from the Epistles . Thus the provision for widows , alluded to Acts vi . I , was a new feature of social ...
Page xxxii
... probably drew the whole of that portion of his narrative which relates to the appointment of the deacons and the accusation , defence , and death of Stephen ( vi . — vii . ) , as well as those notices of the after movements of the ...
... probably drew the whole of that portion of his narrative which relates to the appointment of the deacons and the accusation , defence , and death of Stephen ( vi . — vii . ) , as well as those notices of the after movements of the ...
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Page 26 - Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Page 257 - Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands : so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Page 36 - Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Page x - Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father : for my Father is greater than I.
Page 247 - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus. And finding certain disciples, he said unto them ; Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed ? And they said unto him; We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Page 25 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne : He, seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Page 121 - But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, 'and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
Page 107 - And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still : and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch ; and he baptized him.
Page 168 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 19 - And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.