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

with a speculative expansion and fantastic evaporation, the latter, with a bigoted contraction, of Christianity; yet both these ...

They must stand or fall together. But they will stand. They represent, indeed, an advanced state of christological and ecclesiol ...

The only argument of any weight is the alleged post-Pauline rise of the Gnostic heresy, which is undoubtedly opposed in Colossi ...

books of Irenaeus against Gnosticism, and the ten books of the Philosophumena of Hippolytus; and this patent fact is the best pr ...

The Epistle reflects, in familiar ease, his relations to this beloved flock, which rested on the love of Christ. It is not syste ...

place on his way to his martyrdom in Rome, and was kindly entertained and escorted by the brethren, and in the Epistle of Polyca ...

written and transmitted at the same time as that to the Colossians. It may be regarded as a personal postscript to it. It was a ...

Onesimus, like every other slave, was but a live chattel; in the eyes of Paul a redeemed child of God and heir of eternal life, ...

runaway slave.^1192 But since the Reformation full justice has been done to it. Erasmus says: "Cicero never wrote with greater e ...

individual members, old and young, widows and virgins, backsliders and heretics. They are rich in practical wisdom and full of e ...

faith, and the crown of righteousness from his Lord and Master (2 Tim. 4:7, 8). Those who deny the second imprisonment, and yet ...

extravagant ascetics, like the Essenes, forbidding to marry and abstaining from meat (1 Tim. 4:3, 8; Tit. 1:14, 15). They denied ...

teach and a blameless character; and their authority is made to depend upon their moral character rather than their office. They ...

simplicity which a thousand years of subsequent experience have enabled no one to equal, much less to surpass."^1207 On the othe ...

Schleiermacher led the way, in 1807, with his attack on 1 Timothy, urging very keenly historical, philological, and other object ...

on Hebrews were ed., after his death, by Windrath, 1868); Tholuck (Hamburg, 1836, dedicated to Bunsen, 3d ed., 1850, transl. by ...

the national and transient character of the Mosaic priesthood and the ever-repeated sacrifices of the Tabernacle and the Temple. ...

with the Alexandrian theosophy of Philo,^1213 but he never introduces foreign ideas into the Scriptures, as Philo did by his all ...

(4) the Jews of Antioch;^1220 (5) the Jews of Rome;^1221 (6) some community of the dispersion in the East (but not Jerusalem).^1 ...

There is further internal evidence that the letter was written before the destruction of Jerusalem (70), before the outbreak of ...