 | Jocelyn Rhys - 1924 - 296 sider
...supine inattention of the pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their...walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead wore raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit... | |
 | Dame Christabel Pankhurst - 1924 - 218 sider
...by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During the age of Christ and of His apostles and of their first disciples, the doctrine which they forwarded was confirmed by innumerable evidences. The lame walked and the blind saw, the sick were... | |
 | Floyd Lavern Darrow - 1926 - 300 sider
...supernatural events. Of the earliest miracles of the church, Gibbon in his Rome speaks as follows: "During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and of...blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, demons were expelled, and the laws of nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - 1984 - 288 sider
...supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their...blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, demons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 sider
...its usual occupations." Gibbon emphasizes the narrowly political significance of supernatural belief: "The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed,...the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the Church" (Decline and Fall 2.: 74).... | |
 | Minnesota John Haiman Professor of Linguistics Macalester College - 1998 - 234 sider
...supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their...blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, demons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the Church.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sider
...supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their...confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the bund saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 sider
...supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world, to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their...blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, demons were expelled, and the laws of nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1999 - 308 sider
...the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses?" Gibbon asked. For, he continued, "during the age of Christ, of his apostles, and of...was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. . . . The Laws of nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church." Then, focusing on the most... | |
 | Robert L. Carneiro - 2000 - 328 sider
...Europe gripped by literalminded Christianity that in the writings of the period, according to Gibbon, "the lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, demons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended" (quoted in Clive 1989:57).... | |
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But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and of their first... 
