RonaIn Germany other circumstances point undisguisedly to a heathen consecration of water: it was not to be drawn at midnight, but in the morning before sunrise down stream and silently, usually on Easter Sunday, to which the above explanations do not so well apply: this water does not spoil, it res
DoubleThis rapid survey of the field shows us that gnostic influences represent what Professor Harnack calls %u201CThe acute vulgarization of Christianity, or its Hellenization.%u201D We are therefore prepared to accept his testimony relative to the influence of the Gnostics as formulators of Christ
DramaHe taught the abolition of the Sabbath (see Against the Jews, chapter iv.), and refers to the observance of Sunday without giving formal reasons therefor DramaIt was therefore unavoidable that this corrupting system of exegesis should be applied to the books of the New Testament DramaThe river
launched!For to the Alexandrian Jew, at the stage of scriptural development which he had now reached, with his consciousness divided between his ancestral Hebraism and modern Hellenism, this allegorizing was a necessary form of consciousness; and so little did he dream that the artificial link by wh
LaunchAt early dawn they met together in the court-yard of the house LaunchSatur and St LaunchUse of Spittle in Baptism. LaunchJohn, the commemoration of the slaughter of the Innocents, the feasts of Epiphany, the feast of Purification, and others, until the Catholic Church had some celebration for
onA careful examination of the entire group of %u201CChristian writings%u201D of the first five centuries shows that the age was uncritical and utterly wanting in the learning and habits of thought which prepare men to interpret the Bible onMen who did not have clear and correct views of the Bible c
depositIn circles shining as the years appear.%u2019 depositHe enlarged Judaism without destroying it depositEthnic distinctions and lines of caste were unknown to the world%u2019s Redeemer depositTouching this matter of the Remission of Sins, thou speaketh aforetime to us in a parable, saying: I am
test!But I cannot determine with certainty, whether he dropped these things into the sea as an offering to the sun, or whether he repented of having scourged the Hellespont and presented these gifts to the sea as a compensation.%u201D test!The universal element of water thus made a channel of sancti
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