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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... truth and reality . At all events , the reverence which had enshrined and set apart the life of Jesus in a kind of unapproach- able sanctity had been then ( and has since been ) so JV PREFACE . ruthlessly invaded , as to force ,
... truth and reality . At all events , the reverence which had enshrined and set apart the life of Jesus in a kind of unapproach- able sanctity had been then ( and has since been ) so JV PREFACE . ruthlessly invaded , as to force ,
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... truth , advantage has been taken of that very secluding reverence to dismiss the whole Life of Christ from the domain of history ; to make that reverence the source and parent of the whole , either supposing the religion , even Jesus ...
... truth , advantage has been taken of that very secluding reverence to dismiss the whole Life of Christ from the domain of history ; to make that reverence the source and parent of the whole , either supposing the religion , even Jesus ...
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... truth . " In the early Jewish worship , it was the physical power of the Deity which was chiefly and perpetually presented to the mind of the worshipper : he was their temporal king , the dispenser of earthly blessings , famine and ...
... truth . " In the early Jewish worship , it was the physical power of the Deity which was chiefly and perpetually presented to the mind of the worshipper : he was their temporal king , the dispenser of earthly blessings , famine and ...
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... truth . If the moral aspect of the Divine nature was more obscurely intimated , and , in this respect , had assumed the character of a local or na- tional Deity , whose love was confined to the chosen a Nil præter nubes et cœli numen ...
... truth . If the moral aspect of the Divine nature was more obscurely intimated , and , in this respect , had assumed the character of a local or na- tional Deity , whose love was confined to the chosen a Nil præter nubes et cœli numen ...
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... truth under the allegoric shell : but in many cases the key was lost , or the fable had wandered so far from its primary sense as to refuse all rational interpretation ; and where the truth had been less encumbered with fiction , it ...
... truth under the allegoric shell : but in many cases the key was lost , or the fable had wandered so far from its primary sense as to refuse all rational interpretation ; and where the truth had been less encumbered with fiction , it ...
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