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... called ' the Metropolis of Asia . ' In his Natural History Pliny speaks of it as Asiae lumen . It is quite in harmony with this that it should after Jerusalem and Antioch become the third great home of Christianity , and after the death ...
... called ' the Metropolis of Asia . ' In his Natural History Pliny speaks of it as Asiae lumen . It is quite in harmony with this that it should after Jerusalem and Antioch become the third great home of Christianity , and after the death ...
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... called " the weeping philosopher . " It was because of the monstrous idiotcy and vice of the Ephesian people . Who would not weep to see religion made the vehicle of brutal super- stition and nameless abominations ? There was not a man ...
... called " the weeping philosopher . " It was because of the monstrous idiotcy and vice of the Ephesian people . Who would not weep to see religion made the vehicle of brutal super- stition and nameless abominations ? There was not a man ...
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... called a ' philosophy of religion . ' It would be more true perhaps to call it a philosophy of being or of existence ; an attempt to explain the seen and the unseen universe . But this again would be misleading to the learner ...
... called a ' philosophy of religion . ' It would be more true perhaps to call it a philosophy of being or of existence ; an attempt to explain the seen and the unseen universe . But this again would be misleading to the learner ...
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... called itself rationalistic , yet it perpetually set intelligence at defiance , both in its premises and in its conclusions . We may describe it as a series of imagina- tive speculations respecting the origin of the universe and its re ...
... called itself rationalistic , yet it perpetually set intelligence at defiance , both in its premises and in its conclusions . We may describe it as a series of imagina- tive speculations respecting the origin of the universe and its re ...
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... called Docetism , i.e. the theory that Christ's body was not a real one , but only appeared ( dokeîv ) to exist ; in short , that it was a phantom . The gulf between the material world and the Supreme God was commonly filled by Gnostic ...
... called Docetism , i.e. the theory that Christ's body was not a real one , but only appeared ( dokeîv ) to exist ; in short , that it was a phantom . The gulf between the material world and the Supreme God was commonly filled by Gnostic ...
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Page 98 - I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
Page 161 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Page 162 - If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of His Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made Him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us Eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son.
Page 180 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.
Page 99 - I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning.
Page 93 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 109 - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us ; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 12 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...
Page 142 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God : because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God : and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Page 126 - He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.