The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1884 - Christianity |
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Page 53
... persons of the sons of Herod . Yet to those who contemplated only the political signs of the times , nothing remained but the degrading alter- native , either to submit to the line of Herod , or to sink into a Roman province . Such was ...
... persons of the sons of Herod . Yet to those who contemplated only the political signs of the times , nothing remained but the degrading alter- native , either to submit to the line of Herod , or to sink into a Roman province . Such was ...
Page 55
... person , had been so widely dis- seminated , as to excite the astonishment , perhaps the jealousy of the Romans , whose historians , Suetonius and Tacitus , as is well known , bear witness to the fact . " Among many , " writes the ...
... person , had been so widely dis- seminated , as to excite the astonishment , perhaps the jealousy of the Romans , whose historians , Suetonius and Tacitus , as is well known , bear witness to the fact . " Among many , " writes the ...
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... person of Vespasian . For his own school , Philo is a valuable witness ; but among the Alexandrian Jews , the belief in a personal Messiah was much more faint and indistinct than in Palestine . The Rabbinical books , even the oldest ...
... person of Vespasian . For his own school , Philo is a valuable witness ; but among the Alexandrian Jews , the belief in a personal Messiah was much more faint and indistinct than in Palestine . The Rabbinical books , even the oldest ...
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... person . " g Future State . No question has been more strenuously debated than the knowledge of a future state , entertained by the earlier Jews . At all events it is quite clear , that before the time of Christ , not merely the im ...
... person . " g Future State . No question has been more strenuously debated than the knowledge of a future state , entertained by the earlier Jews . At all events it is quite clear , that before the time of Christ , not merely the im ...
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... person of Malachi , the last whose oracles were enrolled in the sacred canon . ° Zachariah to It does not appear that dumbness was a legal dis- qualification for the sacerdotal function , for Return of Zachariah remained among his ...
... person of Malachi , the last whose oracles were enrolled in the sacred canon . ° Zachariah to It does not appear that dumbness was a legal dis- qualification for the sacerdotal function , for Return of Zachariah remained among his ...
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