Remarks on the work of the reverend Robert Taylor, styled The diegesis

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T. Cadell, 1830 - 52 páginas
 

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Página 37 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Página 7 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Página 35 - And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
Página 37 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word : It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
Página 4 - HE that would seriously set upon the search of truth,* ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it, nor be much concerned when he misses it. There is nobody in the commonwealth of learning who does not profess himself a lover of truth ; and there is not a rational creature that would not take it amiss to be thought otherwise of. And yet, for all this, one may truly say...
Página 46 - The most sceptical criticism is obliged to respect the truth of this extraordinary fact, and the integrity of this celebrated passage of Tacitus. The former is confirmed by the diligent and accurate Suetonius, who mentions the punishment which Nero inflicted on the Christians, a sect of men who had embraced a new and criminal superstition.
Página 47 - The latter may be proved by the consent of the most ancient manuscripts ; by the inimitable character of the style of Tacitus; by his reputation, which guarded his text from the interpolations of pious fraud ; and by the purport of his narration...
Página 10 - Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty, instruct him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Página 31 - Pessinunticam nominant Deum matrem. Hinc Autochthones Attici Cecropiam Minervam; illinc fluctuantes Cyprii Paphiam Venerem: Cretes sagittiferi Dictynnam Dianam; Siculi trilingues Stygiam Proserpinam; Eleusinii vetustam Deam Cererem: Junonem alii, alii Bellonam, alii Hecaten, Rhamnusiam alii. Et qui nascentis dei Solis inchoantibus radiis illustrantur, Aethiopes, Arriique, priscaque doctrina pollentes Aegyptii caerimoniis me prorsus propriis percolentes appellant vero nomine reginam Isidem.

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