Christianity in Its CradleLondon, 1886 - 172 pages |
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... foreign diet as unclean was a great social separation : their moral shrink- ing from idolatry was felt by idolators as an insult . A sense of religious superiority as inevitably pervaded Israel then , as it pervades Christendom now ...
... foreign diet as unclean was a great social separation : their moral shrink- ing from idolatry was felt by idolators as an insult . A sense of religious superiority as inevitably pervaded Israel then , as it pervades Christendom now ...
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... foreign religions , and fancy that each , rightly interpreted , was right on its own soil ; nay , could with- out compunction allow resident aliens to erect sacred edifices for strange rites nativ to themselves , if morally innoxious ...
... foreign religions , and fancy that each , rightly interpreted , was right on its own soil ; nay , could with- out compunction allow resident aliens to erect sacred edifices for strange rites nativ to themselves , if morally innoxious ...
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... foreign " idolater . The reply is sure to give us insight into his " Messianic tone . " This proposal was approved , as we know from our Gospels . Of all difficulties pressing on a scrupulous Jew , most painful was the conviction that ...
... foreign " idolater . The reply is sure to give us insight into his " Messianic tone . " This proposal was approved , as we know from our Gospels . Of all difficulties pressing on a scrupulous Jew , most painful was the conviction that ...
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... it . The same was true of every coin stamped with Cæsar's head . Under the Roman republic every sound foreign coin was freely accepted as tribute . If it can be shown that Augustus or Tiberius Cæsar were more exacting , 84.
... it . The same was true of every coin stamped with Cæsar's head . Under the Roman republic every sound foreign coin was freely accepted as tribute . If it can be shown that Augustus or Tiberius Cæsar were more exacting , 84.
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... foreign languages , as the writer in the " Acts " pretends ; but were explicable only by a new miracle , i.e. , by some one gifted divinely with a power of interpretation . All was closely similar to the phenomena displayed in Edward ...
... foreign languages , as the writer in the " Acts " pretends ; but were explicable only by a new miracle , i.e. , by some one gifted divinely with a power of interpretation . All was closely similar to the phenomena displayed in Edward ...
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