The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences and Early History of Christianity, Never Yet Before Or Elsewhere So Fully and Faithfully Set ForthA. Kneeland, 1834 - 440 pages |
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... common names of the same deity .... Words of our Easter hymn used at the festival of the Adonia 158 CHAP . XXIII . - The mystical sacrifice of the Phoenicians .... A draft of the whole Christian system .... Archbishop Magee , one of the ...
... common names of the same deity .... Words of our Easter hymn used at the festival of the Adonia 158 CHAP . XXIII . - The mystical sacrifice of the Phoenicians .... A draft of the whole Christian system .... Archbishop Magee , one of the ...
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... common object of worship in both CHAP . XXXIII . - Pythagoras , the type of the human or man - Jesus .... The Pythagorean Metempsychosis the best system of supernaturalism CHAP . XXXIV . - Archbishop Tillotson's Confession of the ...
... common object of worship in both CHAP . XXXIII . - Pythagoras , the type of the human or man - Jesus .... The Pythagorean Metempsychosis the best system of supernaturalism CHAP . XXXIV . - Archbishop Tillotson's Confession of the ...
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... common among the Jews , as John or Thomas among Christians ; nothing hinders but there might have been some dozen , score , or hun- dred Jesuses of Nazareth ; so that proof ( if it could be adduced ) of the existence of any one of these ...
... common among the Jews , as John or Thomas among Christians ; nothing hinders but there might have been some dozen , score , or hun- dred Jesuses of Nazareth ; so that proof ( if it could be adduced ) of the existence of any one of these ...
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... common adage among the Greeks , avμt papais - Miracles for fools ; and the same proverb obtained among the shrewder Romans , in the saying , Vulgus vult decipi decipiatur , " The common people like to be deceived- deceived let them be ...
... common adage among the Greeks , avμt papais - Miracles for fools ; and the same proverb obtained among the shrewder Romans , in the saying , Vulgus vult decipi decipiatur , " The common people like to be deceived- deceived let them be ...
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... common to man as his nature as a man , and could not fail to produce a cor- responding similarity in the objects of his superstitious veneration . To have nothing in common with the already established notions of mankind , to bear no ...
... common to man as his nature as a man , and could not fail to produce a cor- responding similarity in the objects of his superstitious veneration . To have nothing in common with the already established notions of mankind , to bear no ...
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Page 91 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb : and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men : and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it...
Page 106 - 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 87 - For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Page 261 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 100 - 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 186 - And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Page 403 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 96 - And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue : Whom, when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Page 107 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ, and no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light ; therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works.
Page 257 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.