| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1897 - 614 pages
...«,irand philosophic world to those evidences which were presented *cta* by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During...expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended onrti J lUraceconcernlns thf '" If the famous prophecy of the Seventy Weeks had been alleged to a Roman... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 668 pages
...Pagan and philosophic world, to those evidences which were represented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During...confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, "* If the famous prophecy of the Seventy Weeks had been alleged 'aa Roman philosopher, would he not... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 602 pages
...Ku and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented ***** by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During...blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended o,n«nj * llluce concerning... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 602 pages
...of mtiand philosophic world to those evidences which were presented MlM !iy the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During...disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, e sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons... | |
| Edward Clodd - Christianity - 1916 - 88 pages
...the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During...blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of nature were frequentlysuspended for the benefit of the Church.... | |
| Frederick Lawrence Rawson - Cosmology - 1920 - 816 pages
...its continuous history. Gibbon, whose views on the subject make him a safe authority, 40 writes : " During the age of Christ, of his Apostles, and of...the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by Matt.ll:3 innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were... | |
| William Paterson Paterson, David Russell - Prayer - 1920 - 596 pages
...performed by the early Christians for over three centuries. Gibbon writes ironically that their doctrine " was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked,...blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised and the laws of nature were frequently suspended." Our Lord said : " He that believeth on me [the "... | |
| Jocelyn Rhys - Miracles - 1924 - 296 pages
...the pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the...walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead wore raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit... | |
| Dame Christabel Pankhurst - Bible - 1924 - 218 pages
...by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During the age of Christ and of His apostles and of their first disciples, the doctrine which they forwarded was confirmed by innumerable evidences. The lame walked and the blind saw, the sick were... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...its usual occupations." Gibbon emphasizes the narrowly political significance of supernatural belief: "The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the Church"... | |
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