Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the GospelsLittle, Brown, 1855 - 309 pages |
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Page 77 - alter e Cascis 2 aversum1 vulnerat paulum infra iugulum. Caesar Cascae brachium arreptum graphio traiecit conatusque prosilire alio vulnere tardatus est; utque animadvertit undique se strictis pugionibus peti, toga caput obvolvit, simul sinistra manu sinum ad ima crura deduxit, quo honestius caderet etiam inferiore corporis parte velata. Atque...
Page 148 - The results of our inquiry," he says in the closing chapter of his " Life of Jesus," " have apparently annihilated the greatest and most important part of that which the Christian has been wont to believe concerning his...
Page 204 - And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee; it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
Page 149 - Jesus, have uprooted all the animating motives which he has gathered from his faith, and withered all his consolations. The boundless store of truth and life which for eighteen centuries has been the aliment of humanity, seems irretrievably dissipated; the most sublime levelled with the dust, God divested of his grace, man of his dignity, and the tie between heaven and earth broken. Piety turns away with horror from so fearful an act of desecration, and strong in the impregnable self-evidence of...
Page 204 - So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
Page 156 - Humanity is the union of the two natures — god become man, the infinite manifesting itself in the finite, and the finite spirit remembering its infinitude; it is the child of the visible Mother and the invisible Father, Nature and Spirit...
Page 87 - This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.' Mark, ' The King of the Jews.' Luke, ' This is the King of the Jews.
Page 85 - How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burnian, Wasse shall see, When Man's whole frame is obvious to a Plea.
Page 251 - God had so loved THE WORLD as to give his only Son, that every one" (whether Jew or Gentile) " believing in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Page 29 - No just notion of the true nature of history is possible, without a perception of the inviolability of the chain of finite causes, and of the impossibility of miracles.