Christianity in Its CradleLondon, 1886 - 172 pages |
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... kingdom to hav its guardian angel , who is called its prince . Michael is the great prince of Israel . Another tutelary angel was " withstood " for 21 days by the prince of the kingdom of Persia , until Michael came to aid him in the ...
... kingdom to hav its guardian angel , who is called its prince . Michael is the great prince of Israel . Another tutelary angel was " withstood " for 21 days by the prince of the kingdom of Persia , until Michael came to aid him in the ...
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... kingdom . Great standing armies hav become the organ of empire . Greece has now nominally conquered Asia ; but this merely means , that her youth ar dragged from home or migrate to be tools of blood- shed , and her population rapidly ...
... kingdom . Great standing armies hav become the organ of empire . Greece has now nominally conquered Asia ; but this merely means , that her youth ar dragged from home or migrate to be tools of blood- shed , and her population rapidly ...
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... kingdom of God . Messiah indeed ( i.e. God's chosen captain ) is not named : but in his own high poetry the prophet declares , " Then the eyes of the blind shall " be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped : " then shall the ...
... kingdom of God . Messiah indeed ( i.e. God's chosen captain ) is not named : but in his own high poetry the prophet declares , " Then the eyes of the blind shall " be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped : " then shall the ...
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... kingdom , with the title ethnarch ( nativ magistrate ) ; but after ten years of very unpopular rule , he was deposed by Augustus , and the whole of his territory was absorbed in the Roman province of Syria . Thus Judæa , Samaria and ...
... kingdom , with the title ethnarch ( nativ magistrate ) ; but after ten years of very unpopular rule , he was deposed by Augustus , and the whole of his territory was absorbed in the Roman province of Syria . Thus Judæa , Samaria and ...
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... kingdom of God ( or of Heaven ) is at hand . " Most acceptable was such a message to a people who for above eighty years had groaned under Roman despotism — a power which had inflicted countless miseries not only on insurgents , but ...
... kingdom of God ( or of Heaven ) is at hand . " Most acceptable was such a message to a people who for above eighty years had groaned under Roman despotism — a power which had inflicted countless miseries not only on insurgents , but ...
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