The Antiquities of the Christian ChurchGould, Newman & Saxton, 1841 - 557 pages |
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... Constantinople , cannot fail to interest the christian reader , while it reveals to him , through the dimness of a high antiquity , the customs of the primitive church . This work was undertaken with the hope that it would , in some ...
... Constantinople , cannot fail to interest the christian reader , while it reveals to him , through the dimness of a high antiquity , the customs of the primitive church . This work was undertaken with the hope that it would , in some ...
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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES . 1. CHURCH OF ST . SOPHIA , CONSTANTINOPLE . 1. A Font of water , where the worshippers wash before entering ' the church . - 2 . The Great Porch , probably having a portico or vestibule in front . -3 ...
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES . 1. CHURCH OF ST . SOPHIA , CONSTANTINOPLE . 1. A Font of water , where the worshippers wash before entering ' the church . - 2 . The Great Porch , probably having a portico or vestibule in front . -3 ...
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... Constantinople in the year 394 , under the presidency of Nectari- us , bishop of that see . But there are expressions in earlier councils and writers of the same century which appear to refer to the canons , although not named . In the ...
... Constantinople in the year 394 , under the presidency of Nectari- us , bishop of that see . But there are expressions in earlier councils and writers of the same century which appear to refer to the canons , although not named . In the ...
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... Constantinople . Since that time the whole number ( eighty- five ) have been regarded as genuine in the east ; while only the first fifty have been treated with equal respect in the west . It appears highly probable that the original ...
... Constantinople . Since that time the whole number ( eighty- five ) have been regarded as genuine in the east ; while only the first fifty have been treated with equal respect in the west . It appears highly probable that the original ...
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... Constantinople , Antioch , and Alex- andria , were at variance among themselves on this point , and each agreed with the churches of its own communion only in a few lead- ing particulars . The gradations of improvement were particularly ...
... Constantinople , Antioch , and Alex- andria , were at variance among themselves on this point , and each agreed with the churches of its own communion only in a few lead- ing particulars . The gradations of improvement were particularly ...
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Page 310 - I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
Page 96 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 165 - To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in - the sight of God but also in the sight of all men.
Page 167 - Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Page 109 - For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 187 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 96 - The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed...
Page 30 - ... denies himself to be a Christian, and shall make it evident that he is not, by invoking our gods, let him (notwithstanding any former suspicion) be pardoned upon his repentance. Informations without the accuser's name subscribed ought not to be received in prosecutions of any sort; as it is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and by no means agreeable to the equity of my government.
Page 95 - Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2.
Page 30 - ... the party denies himself to be a Christian, and shall make it evident that he is not, by invoking our gods, let him (notwithstanding any former suspicion) be pardoned upon his repentance.