...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...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...

...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...

...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,...and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended" (quoted in Clive 1989:57). Even greater accomplishments were attributed to the saints, and Gibbon (no...

...first two editions, Gibbon had elaborated on the pagan disregard for the miracles of Christianity: 'The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were perpetually suspended for the benefu of the church.'7a...

...Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon, whose views on the subject make him a safe authority, writes : " During the age of Christ, of his Apostles, and of...healed, the dead were raised, demons were expelled, and 30 the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church." Mr. George Rawlinson,...

...first two editions, Gibbon had elaborated on the pagan disregard for the miracles of Christianity: 'The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were perpetually suspended for the benefit of the church'.53...