Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the GospelsLittle, Brown, 1855 - 309 pages |
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... individual or of many , for the purpose of deception . " It is impossible , " he says , " to prove that such a caste of deceivers existed in ancient Greece ( or Palestine ) ; on the contrary , this skilful system of deception , be it ...
... individual or of many , for the purpose of deception . " It is impossible , " he says , " to prove that such a caste of deceivers existed in ancient Greece ( or Palestine ) ; on the contrary , this skilful system of deception , be it ...
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... individual author is assigned to it , provided that the mythical consists only in the filling up and adorning some historical event with imaginary circumstances ; but that where the whole story is invented , and not any historical ...
... individual author is assigned to it , provided that the mythical consists only in the filling up and adorning some historical event with imaginary circumstances ; but that where the whole story is invented , and not any historical ...
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... individual Apostle or companion of an Apostle . Such is the uncertainty of these accounts , which after all do not reach further back than the third or fourth decade of the second century . According to all the rules of probability ...
... individual Apostle or companion of an Apostle . Such is the uncertainty of these accounts , which after all do not reach further back than the third or fourth decade of the second century . According to all the rules of probability ...
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... individual , who acted strongly on the minds of men . Before this theory can be received , it becomes requisite to explain the very rapid growth of those most extraordinary fictions concerning him , which sprung up and flourished while ...
... individual , who acted strongly on the minds of men . Before this theory can be received , it becomes requisite to explain the very rapid growth of those most extraordinary fictions concerning him , which sprung up and flourished while ...
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... individual character and circumstances of Jesus : only a very small proportion of mythi having to be formed . entirely new . " * This is the only explanation he affords . IT appears , then , according to Strauss , that some time during ...
... individual character and circumstances of Jesus : only a very small proportion of mythi having to be formed . entirely new . " * This is the only explanation he affords . IT appears , then , according to Strauss , that some time during ...
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Page 265 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 232 - A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master; it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they malign those of his household.
Page 251 - Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven...
Page 182 - Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked, or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee?
Page 147 - 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 148 - 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 its faith, pronounces that, let an audacious criticism attempt what it will, all which the Scriptures declare, and the Church...
Page 264 - Come, you that have received a blessing from my Father, take possession of the kingdom which has been prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me food, thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you brought me home, naked, and you clothed me, sick, and you cared for me, a prisoner, and you came to me.
Page 265 - You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
Page 86 - Matthew — This is Jesus the king of the Jews. Mark The king of the Jews. Luke This is the king of the Jews.
Page 84 - 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.