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... must be recited , that there may be no complaint of wrong done by the apologist , which must always increase in some measure , and often ve- ry confiderably , the length of his performance . Be- fides , I herein intend a fervice to many ...
... must be recited , that there may be no complaint of wrong done by the apologist , which must always increase in some measure , and often ve- ry confiderably , the length of his performance . Be- fides , I herein intend a fervice to many ...
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... must be sensible it would require a long digression to examine them ; the hy- pothesis which he urges them to support , must ine deed seem very strange in one who professed himself a fincere friend to Christianity , and was vested with ...
... must be sensible it would require a long digression to examine them ; the hy- pothesis which he urges them to support , must ine deed seem very strange in one who professed himself a fincere friend to Christianity , and was vested with ...
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... must they be , who rely upon him as a fafe guide in antient facts , which have any connection with religion ! SECTION V. Of his Falfhoods in his Detail of JOSEPHUS's Story of JADDUA and ALEXANDER , in Chapter forty- fixth ; together ...
... must they be , who rely upon him as a fafe guide in antient facts , which have any connection with religion ! SECTION V. Of his Falfhoods in his Detail of JOSEPHUS's Story of JADDUA and ALEXANDER , in Chapter forty- fixth ; together ...
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... must in general be thought to have en- tertained too much aversion and hatred against the Jewish nation , to preferve and perpetuate the memo- ry of a fact in its circumstances and effects so honour- able to them , whatever information ...
... must in general be thought to have en- tertained too much aversion and hatred against the Jewish nation , to preferve and perpetuate the memo- ry of a fact in its circumstances and effects so honour- able to them , whatever information ...
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... must have happened many hundred years before the cap- tivity by Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans ; tho ' there ... must have borrowed it from the fathers in that age of the church , he must certainly have forgot that Philo taught ...
... must have happened many hundred years before the cap- tivity by Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans ; tho ' there ... must have borrowed it from the fathers in that age of the church , he must certainly have forgot that Philo taught ...
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Page 127 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Page 346 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself serso vant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law...
Page 139 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Page 368 - Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Page 475 - Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them ; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring : that ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. I am the Lord your God,...
Page 481 - That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Page 381 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Page 509 - THE former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that JESUS began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up...
Page 266 - Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Page 131 - But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.