History of the Martyrs in Palestine

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Williams and Norgate, 1861 - 86 sider
 

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Side 2 - Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?. ..No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Side 4 - the rule of many is not good : let there be one ruler and one sovereign.
Side 81 - ... in potestate sublimius, in honore pretiosius, baptisma in quo angeli baptizant, baptisma in quo Deus et Christus ejus exultant, baptisma post quod nemo jam peccat, baptisma quod fidei nostrae incrementa consummat, baptisma quod nos de mundo recedentes statim Deo copulat. In aquae baptismo accipiuntur peccatorum remissa, in sanguinis corona virtutum. Amplectenda res est et optanda et omnibus postulationum nostrarum precibus expetenda, ut qui servi Dei fuimus simus et amici.
Side 84 - Christian religion under his old philosophic habit, which was the pallium or cloak, the usual badge of the Greek philosophers, (different from that which was worn by the ordinary Greeks,) and which those Christians still kept to, who before their conversion had been professed philosophers.
Side xi - ... manner in which he has executed his task. He states that he has endeavoured to make his English version as faithful as he could without following the Syriac idiom so closely as to render the English obscure. In his notes he has collected such observations as may tend especially to throw light upon the time of the composition of this work, and of the " Ecclesiastical History " by Eusebius, and serve to elucidate the text. The Syriac is printed in a type of exquisite beauty, and in imitation of...
Side 81 - ... in potestate sublimius, in honore pretiosius. Baptisma in quo angeli baptizant ; baptisma in quo Deus et Christus ejus exultant ; baptisma post quod nemo jam peccat ; baptisma qxiod fidei nostrae incrementa consummat ; baptisma quod nos de mundo recedentes statim Deo copulat.
Side 33 - ... continued in this manner for many days, there happened in the midst of the city a prodigy which will scarcely be believed.
Side ii - The second treatise in this manuscript is the book of Titus, Bishop of Bostra, or Bozra, in Arabia, against the Manicheans. We are also indebted for the publication of this important work to Dr. de Lagarde.* The third is the book of Eusebius on the Theophania, or Divine Manifestation of our Lord.
Side 15 - ... time they tore his sides and ribs with combs, till he became one mass of swelling all over, and the appearance of his countenance was completely changed, [p. 17.] And for a long time his feet were burning in a sharp fire, so that the flesh of his feet, as it was consumed, dropped like melted wax, and the fire burnt into his 35 very bones like dry reeds.

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