The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing... The Freethinker's Magazine and Review of Theology, Politics, and Literature - Side 181851Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 606 sider
...was most effectually favoured and assisted by the five iv ' following causes : I. JThe inflexible, and, if we may use the > expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it js j / true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 598 sider
...that it was most effectually favored and assisted by the five following causes : 1. The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. 2. The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1899 - 368 sider
...following causes : I. The Zeal of the Christiana, derived from the Jews, — but purified from that narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting,...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. 83 II. The Doctrine of a Future Life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
| Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - 1913 - 1092 sider
...Christianity was most effectually favored and assisted by the five following causes: "(1) The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. "(2) The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
| William Frederick Cobb, William Frederick Geikie-Cobb - 1914 - 600 sider
...Church " was most effectually favoured and assisted by the five following causes : (i.) The inflexible, and if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal...instead of -inviting had deterred the Gentiles from is not evoked unless by a principle of life ; nor is the doctrine of a future life efficacious unless... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1916 - 88 sider
...causes of "the rapid growth of the Christian Church." These are as follows : — 1. The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant,...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. 2. The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
| 1925 - 906 sider
...favored and assisted the rapid growth of the Christian Church," were these: "First: The inflexible, and if we may use the expression, the intoler-ant zeal of the Christians. Second: The doctrine of a future life. *Tht Expansion of Christianity, Vol. II. p. Third: The miraculous... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sider
...that it was most effectually favoured and assisted by the five following causes: I. The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant...embracing the law of Moses. II. The doctrine of a future hie, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight and efficacy to that important... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1999 - 274 sider
...conversion, has been vatiously explained by vatious authors. Gibbon9 assigns five causes: 1 The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Chtistians, detived, it is ttue, from the Jewish religion, but putified from the natrow and unsocial... | |
| H. A. Drake - 2002 - 636 sider
...Viz. Alfoldi (1948). The entire question is now reviewed in Girardet (1998). 2 1 . "The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant...Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion." In the famous fifteenth chapter: Gibbon (1909-14) 2: 3. By the end of that chapter (2: 57), Gibbon... | |
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