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... • 4. Of mourners , 2. Affection for the dying , 3. Funeral solemnities , 5. Prayers for the dead , 6. Cemeteries of the early Christians , 411 412 414 417 421 CHAPTER XXI . SACRED SEASONS , FESTIVALS AND FASTS . 14 CONTENTS .
... • 4. Of mourners , 2. Affection for the dying , 3. Funeral solemnities , 5. Prayers for the dead , 6. Cemeteries of the early Christians , 411 412 414 417 421 CHAPTER XXI . SACRED SEASONS , FESTIVALS AND FASTS . 14 CONTENTS .
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... early church have a theological importance only so far as they serve to illustrate the sentiments and practices of the inspired writers . Hence they have been interested to show the gradual departure of the early church from the purity ...
... early church have a theological importance only so far as they serve to illustrate the sentiments and practices of the inspired writers . Hence they have been interested to show the gradual departure of the early church from the purity ...
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... early history of the primitive church , or critically examine its policy , the testimony of contempo- rary writers of another faith must be peculiarly important . But such writers , both Jewish and profane , of the first three centuries ...
... early history of the primitive church , or critically examine its policy , the testimony of contempo- rary writers of another faith must be peculiarly important . But such writers , both Jewish and profane , of the first three centuries ...
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... early Christians . 1. That they were accustomed to meet on a certain stated day for religious worship - whether on the first or last day of the week , does not appear . 2. Their meetings were held in the morning before day - light ...
... early Christians . 1. That they were accustomed to meet on a certain stated day for religious worship - whether on the first or last day of the week , does not appear . 2. Their meetings were held in the morning before day - light ...
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... early and extensive propagation of Christianity , and of its tendency to overthrow idola- try . It also confirms the statements of the early apologists respect- ing the same points , while it establishes our confidence in their ...
... early and extensive propagation of Christianity , and of its tendency to overthrow idola- try . It also confirms the statements of the early apologists respect- ing the same points , while it establishes our confidence in their ...
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Page 310 - I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
Page 299 - For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Page 96 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 167 - Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Page 187 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 95 - Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2.
Page 96 - The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed...
Page 30 - ... party denies himself to be a Christian, and shall make it evident that he is not, by invoking our gods, let him (notwithstanding any former suspicion) be pardoned upon his repentance. Informations without the accuser's name subscribed ought not to be received in prosecutions of any sort; as it is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and by no means agreeable to the equity of my government.
Page 356 - My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Page 109 - For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great, boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.