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

George P. Fisher (Professor in New Haven, b. 1827) has written the best manual in the English language: History of the Christian ...

1887, largely illustrated). The Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed., completed 1889 in 25 vols.) contains also many elaborate arti ...

M. Schneckenburger (d. 1848): Vorlesungen über N. Testamentliche Zeitgeschichte, aus dessen Nachlass herausgegeben von Löhlein, ...

Judaism and heathenism. These meet and unite—at last in Christ as the common Saviour, the fulfiller of the types and prophecies, ...

The Jewish Apocrypha. Best edition by Otto Frid. Fritzsche: Libri Apocryphi Veteris Testamenti Graece. Lips. 1871. German Comme ...

Warburton (Bishop of Gloucester, d. 1779): The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated. 5th ed. Lond. 1766; 10th ed. by James Nich ...

J. M. Jost: Geschichte der Israeliten seit der Zeit der Maccabäer bis auf unsere Tage. Leipz. 1820–’28, 9 vols. By the same: Ges ...

sacred psalmist, Isaiah, the evangelist among the prophets, Elijah the Tishbite, who reappeared with Moses on the Mount of Trans ...

with the traditions of the elders so as to make the Scriptures "of none effect." They analyzed the Mosaic law to death, and subs ...

to repentance. It therefore could not fail of its saving effect on those hearts which yielded to its discipline, and conscientio ...

the return of the people and the rebuilding of the temple; interpreting and applying the law, reproving abuses in church and sta ...

atoning Lamb of God, was indeed, as the immediate forerunner of the New Testament economy, and the personal friend of the heaven ...

Maurice (d. 1872): The Religions of the World in their Relations to Christianity. Lond. 1854 (reprinted in Boston). Trench: Huls ...

Homer and the popular faith saw and worshipped the weaknesses and vices of the Grecian character, as well as its virtues, in mag ...

Christ; Jethro, the priest of Midian; Rahab, the Canaanite woman and hostess of Joshua and Caleb; Ruth, the Moabitess and ancest ...

The literature of the ancient Greeks and the universal empire of the Romans were, next to the Mosaic religion, the chief agents ...

the deep religious reflections of Plutarch,^75 the sometimes almost Pauline moral precepts of Seneca.^76 To many of the greatest ...

of calculation adapted to state purposes, political and utilitarian, but at the same time solemn, earnest, and energetic. "The R ...

thine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; and cinn ...

is not only rare, but nowhere."^84 Thus far the negative. On the other hand, the universal empire of Rome was a positive groundw ...