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... Greek parallels ( the earliest passage is in Justin Martyr , First Apology , chaps . xxi . and xxii . ) : “ If the Christians relate cures of lame and palsied men , and of men sick from their birth , and the raising of the dead , then ...
... Greek parallels ( the earliest passage is in Justin Martyr , First Apology , chaps . xxi . and xxii . ) : “ If the Christians relate cures of lame and palsied men , and of men sick from their birth , and the raising of the dead , then ...
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... Greek world , as far as it had any understanding for religion , and even in Israel itself it had been modified by a belief in angels which bears clear marks of its polytheistic origin . One need but read , for instance , the Epistle to ...
... Greek world , as far as it had any understanding for religion , and even in Israel itself it had been modified by a belief in angels which bears clear marks of its polytheistic origin . One need but read , for instance , the Epistle to ...
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... Greeks presented them with the word for the idea dioikesis . It is only the historical and teleological character of this faith in God that marks the pre - eminence of the Jewish religion . While with the Stoics the belief in Providence ...
... Greeks presented them with the word for the idea dioikesis . It is only the historical and teleological character of this faith in God that marks the pre - eminence of the Jewish religion . While with the Stoics the belief in Providence ...
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... Greek thinkers and poets had arrived at a great purification and moralization of the polytheistic religion . This , however , they might safely ignore , as the influence of Homer never ceased , and could for them only be compared to the ...
... Greek thinkers and poets had arrived at a great purification and moralization of the polytheistic religion . This , however , they might safely ignore , as the influence of Homer never ceased , and could for them only be compared to the ...
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... Greeks , he noticed for the first time how alien to the Greek mind was that which he had assumed as a matter of course . For them the Christian congrega- tion was an association for worship analogous to other similar associations . It ...
... Greeks , he noticed for the first time how alien to the Greek mind was that which he had assumed as a matter of course . For them the Christian congrega- tion was an association for worship analogous to other similar associations . It ...
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Page 383 - He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.
Page 172 - Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
Page 278 - I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me : and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Page 160 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 337 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
Page 160 - when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 241 - But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Page 285 - For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Page 171 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 170 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.