The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels, Volume 1

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John Owen, 1846 - Apologetics - 336 pages

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Page 113 - But these provincial synods do not appear, as a constant and regular institution, fixed to definite times, until about the end of the second or the beginning of the third century...
Page clxxi - We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life...
Page lxvi - Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value ; and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Page 131 - We have not received," saith Irenaeus, " the knowledge of the way of our salvation by any others than those by whom the gospel has been brought to us. Which gospel they first preached, and afterwards, by the will of God, committed to writing, that it might be for time to come the foundation and pillar of our faith.
Page lxxxi - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page lxxi - Jonah the prophet : for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 39 - From these facts, it is evident, that, first, about the end of the second, and the beginning of the third century...
Page cxcvi - Raca ! shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say unto him, Morehf shall be in danger of hell fire : therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way : first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift...
Page 204 - Lord will overshadow thee ; wherefore also that holy thing which is born of thee shall be called the son of the Most High ; and thou shalt call his name Jesus ; for he shall save his people from their sins.
Page 140 - He was eminent during the latter part of the second, and the beginning of the third century. In the evidence which Clement affords of the general reception of the Gospels, as sacred books, there is nothing of a peculiar character.

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