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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... town , every village , every family , had its peculiar , local , or tutelar deity , there was a kind of common neutral ground on which they all met , a notion that the gods in their collective capacity exercised a general controlling ...
... town , every village , every family , had its peculiar , local , or tutelar deity , there was a kind of common neutral ground on which they all met , a notion that the gods in their collective capacity exercised a general controlling ...
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... towns ; and Hebron , though of no great size , was considered remarkably populous in proportion to its extent . The divine pro- mise began to be accomplished ; and during the five first months of her pregnancy , Elizabeth , the wife of ...
... towns ; and Hebron , though of no great size , was considered remarkably populous in proportion to its extent . The divine pro- mise began to be accomplished ; and during the five first months of her pregnancy , Elizabeth , the wife of ...
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... town in Lower Galilee , which , independent of the general disrepute in which the whole of the Galilean provinces were held by the inhabitants of the more holy district of Judæa , seems to have been marked by a kind of peculiar ...
... town in Lower Galilee , which , independent of the general disrepute in which the whole of the Galilean provinces were held by the inhabitants of the more holy district of Judæa , seems to have been marked by a kind of peculiar ...
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... town of Nazareth , in the province of Galilee , to Bethlehem , a small village to the south of Jerusalem . Joseph on the discovery of the pregnancy of his betrothed , being a man of gentle character , had been willing to spare her the ...
... town of Nazareth , in the province of Galilee , to Bethlehem , a small village to the south of Jerusalem . Joseph on the discovery of the pregnancy of his betrothed , being a man of gentle character , had been willing to spare her the ...
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... town , as the birthplace of David , had always been consecrated in the memory of the Jews with peculiar reverence ; and no prediction in the Old Testament appears more distinct , than that which assigns for the nativity of the great ...
... town , as the birthplace of David , had always been consecrated in the memory of the Jews with peculiar reverence ; and no prediction in the Old Testament appears more distinct , than that which assigns for the nativity of the great ...
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