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

To the outside observer the Jews at that time were the most religious people on earth, and in some sense this is true. Never was ...

for its capital. It was this popular idol of a pseudo-Messiah with which Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, when he showed h ...

denied him, and everybody had forsaken him. He solemnly affirmed his Messiahship before the tribunal of the Jewish highpriest; h ...

sprach er keineswegs aus [!], auch brach er nicht etwa die Schranken der Nationalität .... Er hob nicht im Entferntesten etwas v ...

"Be a disciple of Aaron, peace-loving and peace-making; love men, and draw them to the law." "Whoever abuses a good name (or, is ...

the Mount? Moreover, si duo idem dicunt, non est idem. As to the rabbinical parallels, we must remember that they were not commi ...

Wissenschaft," VI. 40 and 54 sqq., and Geschichte Christus’, p. 288. We avail ourselves chiefly of the collections of Hofmann, W ...

[(5) "The Son of God says,(?) ’Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in abhorrence.’ " From the Epistle of Barnabas, c. 4. Thi ...

(14) "Keep the flesh pure, and the seal [probably baptism] without stain that we (ye) may receive eternal life." From Pseudo-Cle ...

This is a strongly figurative description of the millennium. Westcott thinks it is based on a real discourse, but to me it sound ...

Solomon, saw the same Lord in heavenly glory, "fairer than the children of men" and "altogether lovely." Yet the difference was ...

pictures of the suffering Saviour with the crown of thorns. The greatest painters and sculptors have exhausted the resources of ...

who was called the Baptist; for Herod slew him, who was a good man (ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα), and commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, bo ...

The resurrection of Christ from the dead is reported by the four Gospels, taught in the Epistles, believed throughout Christendo ...

despondency to hope, from timidity to courage, from doubt to faith, and began to proclaim the gospel of the resurrection in the ...

manifestations was not only to convince the apostles personally of the resurrection, but to make them witnesses of the resurrect ...

This infamous lie carries its refutation on its face: for if the Roman soldiers who watched the grave at the express request of ...

to person and from place to place. The Christian society wrought the miracle by its intense love for Christ. Accordingly the res ...

theory of fraud. If removed by the enemies, then these enemies had the best evidence against the resurrection, and would not hav ...

they saw and heard the self-same Jesus in bodily shape and form; and that they were by this baseless vision raised all at once f ...