Dissertations on Some of the Most Remarkable Wonders of Antiquity: On the Darkness at the Passion; on the Pool of Bethesda; on the Thundering Legion; on the Miraculous Earthquake at Jerusalem; on the Fall of Simon Magnus at the Prayer of S. Peter;--&c. In which Those Facts are Ascertained, and the Conduct of the Heathens in Regard to Them is Accounted for on the Same Principle, which is Made Use of in Vindicating the Miracles of Christianity from the Neglect and Rejection of Them by the HeathensJ. Bentham, 1748 - 383 страница |
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... event ; fince the inhabitants of the former were curious and inquifitive about every thing new ; and the latter were more than ordina- rily attached to the relations of prodigy . What therefore can be the reason , that a fact , fo ...
... event ; fince the inhabitants of the former were curious and inquifitive about every thing new ; and the latter were more than ordina- rily attached to the relations of prodigy . What therefore can be the reason , that a fact , fo ...
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... ferrugine texit , Impiaque æternam timuerunt fæcula noɛtem . Virg . Georg , L. join- I , joined it with several other events , that had in at our Saviour's Paffion . II of thefe great occafions in particular, will eafi- ...
... ferrugine texit , Impiaque æternam timuerunt fæcula noɛtem . Virg . Georg , L. join- I , joined it with several other events , that had in at our Saviour's Paffion . II of thefe great occafions in particular, will eafi- ...
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... events , that had in reality as little of the prodigious in them , as this appearance itself . I qua- Pliny who as a Profe - Writer appears next upon the stage , and from whom in that lity more fober accounts might be expected , feems ...
... events , that had in reality as little of the prodigious in them , as this appearance itself . I qua- Pliny who as a Profe - Writer appears next upon the stage , and from whom in that lity more fober accounts might be expected , feems ...
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... events . Horace however as a Poet , and one befides that had been eye - witness of this appearance , need not , one would have thought , have been fo parfimonious on this occafion ; yet he has followed the example of Suetonius , and ...
... events . Horace however as a Poet , and one befides that had been eye - witness of this appearance , need not , one would have thought , have been fo parfimonious on this occafion ; yet he has followed the example of Suetonius , and ...
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... event in all respects inferior to this " . In short , the more we confider this difficulty on the plan abovementioned , the more it in- creases , and the more it oppreffes us on every fide ; let us now therefore fee whether it is more ...
... event in all respects inferior to this " . In short , the more we confider this difficulty on the plan abovementioned , the more it in- creases , and the more it oppreffes us on every fide ; let us now therefore fee whether it is more ...
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Страница 367 - Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we ? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Страница 294 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Страница 373 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the .power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Страница 330 - Spirit, and I will show wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke : the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
Страница 292 - And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God ? tell me them, I pray you.
Страница 321 - And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
Страница 292 - And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Страница 90 - Marcomannicum confeciî ; quod cum his Quadi , Vandali , Sarmatae , Suevi , atque omnis Barbaria commoverat...
Страница 340 - I fhould obey his Voice to let Ifrael go ? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Ifrael go.
Страница 311 - The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king-, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.