The Works of William Paley: With a Life, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 - Theology |
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... passages in their remaining works incidentally discover to us , offers itself to our notice in the first place : be- cause , so far as this evidence goes , it is the con- cession of adversaries ; the source from which it is 26 EVIDENCES ...
... passages in their remaining works incidentally discover to us , offers itself to our notice in the first place : be- cause , so far as this evidence goes , it is the con- cession of adversaries ; the source from which it is 26 EVIDENCES ...
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... passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . - Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in the time of Nero , and of the ...
... passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . - Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in the time of Nero , and of the ...
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... passage at present is only so far as it affords a presumption in support of the proposition which we maintain , concerning the activity and sufferings of the first teachers of Christianity . Now considered in this view , it proves three ...
... passage at present is only so far as it affords a presumption in support of the proposition which we maintain , concerning the activity and sufferings of the first teachers of Christianity . Now considered in this view , it proves three ...
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... passage were considered by itself , the subject of allusion might be doubtful ; but , when connected with the testimony of Suetonius , as to the actual punishment of the Christians by Nero , and with the account given by Tacitus of the ...
... passage were considered by itself , the subject of allusion might be doubtful ; but , when connected with the testimony of Suetonius , as to the actual punishment of the Christians by Nero , and with the account given by Tacitus of the ...
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... passages , that Christ actually did foretell these events , and that they did accordingly come to pass ; becausé that would be at once to assume the truth of the religion : but I am entitled to contend , that one side or other of the ...
... passages , that Christ actually did foretell these events , and that they did accordingly come to pass ; becausé that would be at once to assume the truth of the religion : but I am entitled to contend , that one side or other of the ...
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