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... completely dif- ferent from Matthew's , both in the names of the persons , and the number of the generations . Their agreement and difference will be best understood by placing them together in a descend- ing line , along with the ...
... completely dif- ferent from Matthew's , both in the names of the persons , and the number of the generations . Their agreement and difference will be best understood by placing them together in a descend- ing line , along with the ...
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... completely different from both , that it sets all comparison at defiance , except in the two following instances : He tells us , that Joseph , the carpenter , was the son of Heli ; Matthew says , he was the son of Jacob ; Luke tells us ...
... completely different from both , that it sets all comparison at defiance , except in the two following instances : He tells us , that Joseph , the carpenter , was the son of Heli ; Matthew says , he was the son of Jacob ; Luke tells us ...
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... completely irreconcileable . Can any person believe them both for truth ? Or ought we to believe either of them ? If Matthew and Luke were ordinary writers , we would reject most of their stories as falsehood . Is the traditionary ...
... completely irreconcileable . Can any person believe them both for truth ? Or ought we to believe either of them ? If Matthew and Luke were ordinary writers , we would reject most of their stories as falsehood . Is the traditionary ...
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... completely al- tered in the quotation , the words are not the same , nor is the sense ( if it had any ) given ; who the person was that is there spoken of , we are not told ; but it speaks plainly of what is past , and not of Jesus ...
... completely al- tered in the quotation , the words are not the same , nor is the sense ( if it had any ) given ; who the person was that is there spoken of , we are not told ; but it speaks plainly of what is past , and not of Jesus ...
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... completely disfigured the passage alluded to , and John's quotation from it , is quite different from Matthew's ; neither of them are accurate ; and if they had been correct , was this paltry procession fulfilling a prophecy ! It was ...
... completely disfigured the passage alluded to , and John's quotation from it , is quite different from Matthew's ; neither of them are accurate ; and if they had been correct , was this paltry procession fulfilling a prophecy ! It was ...
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Page 65 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 21 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 56 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Page 58 - And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 76 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 55 - Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Page 56 - Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
Page 49 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us ? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 59 - So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Page 53 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.