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Origin of the New Testament by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
Gospels, and appears as a compilation with two divisions (“Evangelium” and “Apostolus”)? In the foregoing section hints have been given which prepare for the answering of this question; but the problem has not yet been set in clear light.
Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 15 Of the Perseverance of the Saints. The doctrine of the saints’ final perseverance in grace to glory is next to be considered; which is, that those who are truly regenerated, effectually called, and really converted, and internally sanctified by the Spirit and grace of God, shall persevere in grace to the end, and shall be everlastingly saved; or shall never finally and totally fall,…
Treatise on Relics by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
St Augustinus complains, in his work entitled The Labour of Monks, that certain people were, even in his time, exercising a dishonest trade, hawking about relics of martyrs, and he adds the following significant words, should they really be relics of martyrs, from which we may infer, that even then abuses and deceits were practised, by making simple folks believe that bones, picked up any where,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 31: 1885 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat, and they draw near unto the gates of death.
NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Both by nature and by grace, Augustin was formed to be the champion of truth in this controversy. Of a naturally philosophical temperament, he saw into the springs of life with a vividness of mental perception to which most men are strangers; and his own experiences in his long life of resistance to, and then of yielding to, the drawings of God’s grace,…
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. III by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquities of us all. IN this verse we have two things which ought to be matter of continual meditation to us all our days, to wit, our misery by sin, and our remedy by Christ.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
The word Logos is the term by which Christian theology in the Greek language designates the Word of God, or Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Before St.
Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
§ 1. THERE results inevitably from the fourfold structure of the Gospel,.—from the very fact that the story of Redemption is set forth in four narratives, three of which often ran parallel,—this practical inconvenience: namely, that sometimes the expressions of one Evangelist get improperly transferred to another.
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)
HER - THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM - THE RETIREMENT AT NAZARETH. (St. Luke ii. 41-52.) Once only is the great silence, which lies on the history of Christ’s early life, broken.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
The tradition of the Church of Egypt traces its origin to the Evangelist St. Mark, the first Bishop of Alexandria, and ascribes to him the parent liturgy from which all the others used by Melchites, Copts, and by the daughter-Church of Abyssinia are derived.