 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1807 - 508 pages
...xxiii, 8. They seem to agree greatly with the Epicureans; differing, however, in this, that, though they denied a future state, yet they allowed the power of God to create the world ; whereas the followers of Epicurus denied it. It is said, also, that they rejected the Bible, except... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...xxiii, 8. They seem to agree greatly with the Epicureans; differing, however, in this, that, though they denied a future state, yet they allowed the power of God to create the world ; whereas the followers of Epicurus denied it. It is said, also, that they rejected the Bible, except... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 540 pages
...Sadducees. They seem to agree in general with the Epicureans, differing, however, in this : that though they denied a future state, yet they allowed the power of God to create the world, which the followers of Epicurus denied. It is said also, that they rejected the scriptures, except... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...Sadducees. They seem to agree in general with the Epicureans, differing, however, in this : that though they denied a future state, yet they allowed the power of God to create the world, which the followers of Epicurus denied. It is said also, that they rejected the scriptures, except... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1829 - 614 pages
...xxiii. 8. They seem to agree greatly with the i Epicureans ; differing however in this, | that, though they denied a future state, yet they allowed the power of God to create the world ; whereas the followers of Epicurus denied it. It is said also, that they rejected the Bible, except... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1831 - 644 pages
...Acts, xxiii. & They seem to agree greatly with the Epicureans ; differing however in this, that, though they denied a future state, yet they allowed the power of God to create the world ; whereas the followers of Epicurus denied it. It is said also, that they rejected the Bible, except... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - Bible - 1836 - 484 pages
...from the name of Sadoc, the first founder of it, were, called the Saducees; who differed from Epicurus only in this, that although they denied a future state,...among them between this time and that of our Saviour. jin. 262. Ptolemy Philadelph. 23.] — Nicomedes, king of Bithynia,1 having built a new city in the... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - Dictionaries. Ecclesiastical - 1854 - 626 pages
...Acts, xxiii. 8.) They seem to agree greatly with the Kpicureans: differing however in this, that though condemned that say they can no more sin as long as they live here, to deny the pl whereas the followers of Epicurus denied it. It is said, also, that they rejected the Bible, except... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - Dictionaries. Ecclesiastical - 1854 - 614 pages
...Acts, xxiii-P-) They seem to agree greatly with the Kpicureans: differing however in this, ihit though they denied a future state, yet they allowed the power of GOD to create (he world : whereas the followers of Epicuna denied it. It is said, also, that they rejected the Bible,... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - 1858 - 684 pages
...from the name of Sadoc, the first founder of it, were called Sadducees'; who differed from Epicurus only in this, that although they denied a future state,...tenets shall be hereafter given, in the place where 1 shall treat of all those sects of the Jews together, which arose among them between, this time and... | |
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God to create the world ; whereas the followers of Epicurus denied it. It is said, also, that they rejected the Bible, except the Pentateuch ; denied predestination ; and taught, that God had made man absolute -master of all his actions, without assistance... 