The triumphs of Christianity over infidelity displayed, or the coming of the Messiah, the true key to the right understanding of the most difficult passages in the New Testament; a full answer to the objection of mr. Gibbon [in the history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire] that our Lord and His Apostles predicted the near approach of the end of the world in their own time1802 |
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... desolation of their native territory , and the ignominious " captivity of its inhabitants . " + Nor is the evidence that this was the general opinion of the Jews , at the time of our Saviour's appearance , confined to the Christian ...
... desolation of their native territory , and the ignominious " captivity of its inhabitants . " + Nor is the evidence that this was the general opinion of the Jews , at the time of our Saviour's appearance , confined to the Christian ...
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... desolation they should hereafter bring upon our People . These things , " revealed by God , he delivered in writing , to be read by posterity , that " they might by comparing the event with the prediction , admire the " high honour ...
... desolation they should hereafter bring upon our People . These things , " revealed by God , he delivered in writing , to be read by posterity , that " they might by comparing the event with the prediction , admire the " high honour ...
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... desolate ; so he intimates , in the instance under consideration , by telling them that if the salt hath lost its savor , or saltness , it is thenceforth good for nothing , but to be cast out and trodden under foot . This was ...
... desolate ; so he intimates , in the instance under consideration , by telling them that if the salt hath lost its savor , or saltness , it is thenceforth good for nothing , but to be cast out and trodden under foot . This was ...
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... desolation : and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand . if Satan cast out Satan , he is divided against himself , how shall then his kingdom stand ? And , if I , by Beelzebub , cast out Demons , by whom do your ...
... desolation : and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand . if Satan cast out Satan , he is divided against himself , how shall then his kingdom stand ? And , if I , by Beelzebub , cast out Demons , by whom do your ...
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... desolate ! * There is , in the verse immediately following , a considerable degree of difficulty , which it seems , not easy , to solve - but it , perhaps , alludes to the anxiety with which , when cala- mity was coming upon them , they ...
... desolate ! * There is , in the verse immediately following , a considerable degree of difficulty , which it seems , not easy , to solve - but it , perhaps , alludes to the anxiety with which , when cala- mity was coming upon them , they ...
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