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... Gospels according to Matthew and Luke contain such a story , but it is missing in Mark's gospel . For the ending of that gospel as we have it in our New Testament is not the original ending . In the margin of the Revised Version we are ...
... Gospels according to Matthew and Luke contain such a story , but it is missing in Mark's gospel . For the ending of that gospel as we have it in our New Testament is not the original ending . In the margin of the Revised Version we are ...
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... Gospel . " When inspecting the earliest extant New Testament manuscript in the imperial library at St. Petersburg , I ... Gospels ( Mark , Matthew and Luke ) we note that the points of difference now increase from eight to twelve . Add ...
... Gospel . " When inspecting the earliest extant New Testament manuscript in the imperial library at St. Petersburg , I ... Gospels ( Mark , Matthew and Luke ) we note that the points of difference now increase from eight to twelve . Add ...
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... Gospels - the evidence amounts only to this : somebody said that some- body saw Jesus , somewhere , somehow , after he had been entombed . In no irreverent or flip- pant spirit is the evidence thus summed up . It seems to express ...
... Gospels - the evidence amounts only to this : somebody said that some- body saw Jesus , somewhere , somehow , after he had been entombed . In no irreverent or flip- pant spirit is the evidence thus summed up . It seems to express ...
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... Gospels is fur- nished by the remark of Jesus to the penitent thief upon the cross : " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise , " meaning that portion of Sheol marked off for the repentent and the righteous ; not the celestial ...
... Gospels is fur- nished by the remark of Jesus to the penitent thief upon the cross : " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise , " meaning that portion of Sheol marked off for the repentent and the righteous ; not the celestial ...
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... Gospels record 1 -especially in that age when the masses were on tiptoe of excitement in anticipation of the speedy advent of the Messiah . Hence the story of a physical resurrection from the grave followed upon the conviction of the ...
... Gospels record 1 -especially in that age when the masses were on tiptoe of excitement in anticipation of the speedy advent of the Messiah . Hence the story of a physical resurrection from the grave followed upon the conviction of the ...
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Page 36 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 47 - Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw...
Page 201 - I'll tell thee; for thy sake I will lay hold Of all good aims, and consecrate to thee, In worthy deeds, each moment that is told While thou, beloved one! art far from me.
Page 187 - As for Venice and her people, merely born to bloom and drop, 'Here on earth they bore their fruitage, mirth and folly were the crop: ' What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? "Dust and ashes!
Page 35 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 196 - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 200 - WHAT shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face ? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace ? Shall I in slumber steep each weary sense, Weary with longing ?— shall I flee away Into past days, and with some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day ? Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of casting...
Page 178 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 187 - And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings ? or will they, Who...
Page 11 - Thou art immortal— so am I : I feel— I feel my immortality o'ersweep All pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peal, Like the eternal thunders of the deep, Into my ears this truth— "thou liv'st for ever!