The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity, Never Yet Before Or Elsewhere So Fully and Faithfully Set Forth |
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... lived and died as none could live and die , " to have been believed to have done and suffered great things for the service of mankind , but above all , to have propitiated the wrath of the Superior Deity , and to have conquered the ...
... lived and died as none could live and die , " to have been believed to have done and suffered great things for the service of mankind , but above all , to have propitiated the wrath of the Superior Deity , and to have conquered the ...
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... lived and wrote about sixty years after Christ , sought in vain for the testimony of Egyptian authors to support the high pretensions he advanced . Not one has so much as mentioned the prodigies of Moses , or held out the least glimpse ...
... lived and wrote about sixty years after Christ , sought in vain for the testimony of Egyptian authors to support the high pretensions he advanced . Not one has so much as mentioned the prodigies of Moses , or held out the least glimpse ...
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... lived according to the Logos , ( says Clemens Alexandrinus ) were really Christians , though they have been thought to be Atheists ; as Socrates and Heraclitus were among the Greeks , and such as resembled them . " 9. For God , says ...
... lived according to the Logos , ( says Clemens Alexandrinus ) were really Christians , though they have been thought to be Atheists ; as Socrates and Heraclitus were among the Greeks , and such as resembled them . " 9. For God , says ...
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... lived in dissimulation , and affirmed a lie for truth to all men , and no man contradicted me , but all gave credit to my words . " To which the holy angel , whom he addresses , condescendingly admonishes him , that " as the lie was UP ...
... lived in dissimulation , and affirmed a lie for truth to all men , and no man contradicted me , but all gave credit to my words . " To which the holy angel , whom he addresses , condescendingly admonishes him , that " as the lie was UP ...
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... lived in Egypt , had learned and received this maxim from them , before the coming of Christ , as appears incontestibly from a multitude of ancient records , and the Christians were infected from both these sources , with the same ...
... lived in Egypt , had learned and received this maxim from them , before the coming of Christ , as appears incontestibly from a multitude of ancient records , and the Christians were infected from both these sources , with the same ...
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Page 105 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works.
Page 199 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 259 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 99 - This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Page 184 - And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Page 401 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 131 - And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, "He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 280 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 89 - He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not
Page 9 - Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.