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

heaven ... Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers of Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, in P ...

On the other hand, the Graeco-Roman heathenism, through its language, philosophy, and literature, exerted no inconsiderable inf ...

culture, and by Roman conquest; by the vainly attempted amalgamation of Jewish and heathen thought, by the exposed impotence of ...

Hades (Evang. Nicodemi, including the Gesta or Acta Pilati and the Descensus ad Inferos, Epistola Pilati, a report of Christ’s p ...

the divine prophets having foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things (ἄλλα μυρία θαυμάσια) concerning him. And the ...

(2) It is wholly interpolated by a Christian hand. Bekker (in his ed. of Jos., 1855), Hase (1865 and 1876), Keim (1867), Schürer ...

Claudii, c. 25; Vita Neronis, c. 16; Plinius, jun.: Epist., X. 97, 98; Lucian: De morte Peregr., c. 11; Lampridius: Vita Alexand ...

A. Ebrard: Wissenschaftliche Kritik der evangelischen Geschichte. Erl. 1842; 3d ed. 1868. Against Strauss, Bruno Bauer, etc. Con ...

Charles Hardwick (d. 1859): Christ and other Masters. Lond., 4th ed., 1875. (An extension of the work of Reinhard; Christ compar ...

J. A. Bengel: Ordo Temporum. Stuttgart, 1741, and 1770. Henr.Sanclemente: De Vulgaris Aerae Emendatione libri quatuor. C.Ideler: ...

deepest desires and efforts of both Gentiles and Jews for redemption. In his divine nature, as Logos, he is, according to St. Jo ...

hearing for the gentle message of peace which might have been drowned in the passions of war and the clamor of arms. Angels from ...

he predicted his deepest humiliation even to the death on the cross, and the subsequent irresistible attraction of this cross, w ...

At last he completed his active obedience by the passive obedience of suffering in cheerful resignation to the holy will of God. ...

Going so far in admitting the human perfection of Christ—and how can the historian do otherwise?—we are driven a step farther, t ...

We are shut up then to the recognition of the divinity of Christ; and reason itself must bow in silent awe before the tremendous ...

while the old truth and faith of Christendom remains unshaken, and marches on in its peaceful conquest against sin and error Tru ...

There is no good reason to doubt the fact itself, and the flight of the holy family to Egypt, which is inseparably connected wit ...

brilliancy, which appeared "in triumphal pomp, like, some all-powerful monarch on a visit to the metropolis of his realm." It wa ...

difference arises, of course, from the uncertainty of the time of departure and the length of the journey of the Magi. As this a ...