History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

He seems to have been the youngest of the apostles, as he long outlived them all; he certainly was the most gifted and the most ...

to receive Jesus, they were ready, like Elijah of old, to call consuming fire from heaven.^573 But when, some years afterwards, ...

The Apocalypse and the Fourth Gospel. A proper appreciation of John’s character as thus set forth removes the chief difficulty o ...

of thunder (Mark 3:17), could he have described them better? I cannot think that, by that surname, Jesus intended, as all the ol ...

faculty waxing feebler, but that one divinest faculty of all burning more and more brightly; we see it breathing through every l ...

After the year 50 he seems to have left Jerusalem. The Acts no more mention him nor Peter. When Paul made his fifth and last vis ...

history in the second half of the first and during the greater part of the second century. Polycarp, the patriarchal martyr, and ...

one of his favorite modes of punishment.^595 Both facts give support to this tradition. After a promising beginning he became as ...

The faithful record of the historical Christ in the whole fulness of his divine-human person, as the embodiment and source of li ...

spirit would flag from over-exertion and not be able to respond to the call of duty when need required." Childlike simplicity an ...

V. Works which treat of Christian life in the post-apostolic age (Cave, Arnold, Schmidt, Chastel, Pressensé, etc.) will be notic ...

did God choose, yea, and the things that are not, that he might bring to naught the things that are: that no flesh should glory ...

To this we may add the testimony of the atheistic philosopher, John Stuart Mill from his essay on Theism, written shortly before ...

The gift of Wisdom and Knowledge,^612 or of deep insight into the nature and system of the divine word and the doctrines of the ...

and of ecstasy^620 into that of the understanding and of sober self-consciousness.^621 The preponderance of reflection here puts ...

of all his attributes, and the motive of all his works. It is the beginning and the end of creation, redemption, and sanctificat ...

simplicity, humility, perfect obedience to God, and unreserved surrender to Christ. Next to her we have a lovely group of female ...

throughout the ancient church, must be regarded as a one-sided, though natural and, upon the whole, beneficial reaction against ...

Hence the constant danger of servile insurrections, which more than once brought the republic to the brink of ruin, and seemed t ...

Rome a.d. 24 was thrown into consternation by the fear of a slave insurrection (Tacit. Ann. IV. 27). Athenaeus, as quoted by Gib ...