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... Jerusalem . Spon , Wheeler , Fanelli , Chandler , and Leroi have it is true , treated of the fortunes of Greece in the mid- dle ages ; but the picture drawn by those writers is far from being a finished one . They have contented them ...
... Jerusalem . Spon , Wheeler , Fanelli , Chandler , and Leroi have it is true , treated of the fortunes of Greece in the mid- dle ages ; but the picture drawn by those writers is far from being a finished one . They have contented them ...
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... Jerusalem . The history of that city being involved in no obscurity , has no occasion for preliminary explanations . The traditions respecting the Holy Land , derive their certainty from three sources : from history , from religion ...
... Jerusalem . The history of that city being involved in no obscurity , has no occasion for preliminary explanations . The traditions respecting the Holy Land , derive their certainty from three sources : from history , from religion ...
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... Jerusalem , erected a statue of Venus on Mount Calvary , and another of Ju- piter on the holy sepulchre . The grotto of Bethle- hem was given up to the rites of Adonis . The folly of idolatry , thus published , by its imprudent profana ...
... Jerusalem , erected a statue of Venus on Mount Calvary , and another of Ju- piter on the holy sepulchre . The grotto of Bethle- hem was given up to the rites of Adonis . The folly of idolatry , thus published , by its imprudent profana ...
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... Jerusalem dis persed by Adrian in the year of Christ 137 , than we find the church of the Gentiles established in that city . Mark was its first bishop , and Eusebius gives us a list of his successors till the time of Dioclesian . These ...
... Jerusalem dis persed by Adrian in the year of Christ 137 , than we find the church of the Gentiles established in that city . Mark was its first bishop , and Eusebius gives us a list of his successors till the time of Dioclesian . These ...
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... Jerusalem . * Under Con- There are writers who go still farther , and assert , that prior to the persecution of Dioclesian , the Chris- tians of Judea had regained possession of the Holy Sepulchre . It is certain that St. Cyril ...
... Jerusalem . * Under Con- There are writers who go still farther , and assert , that prior to the persecution of Dioclesian , the Chris- tians of Judea had regained possession of the Holy Sepulchre . It is certain that St. Cyril ...
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Page 120 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of •waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 138 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 290 - And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Page 291 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Page 17 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 386 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 120 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the "sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 303 - AND it came to pass, that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 387 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Page 387 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, " Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth...