Historical Lectures on the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Being the Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1859

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Charles John Ellicott
Parker, Son, and Bourne, 1861 - 424 pages
 

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Page 199 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 30 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.
Page 278 - Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting. Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
Page ix - MA who composed the best Dissertation in the English language, on the Evidences in general, or on the Prophecies or Miracles in particular, or on any other particular argument, whether the same be direct or collateral proofs of the Christian religion, in order to evince its truth and excellence.
Page 135 - Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Page 175 - And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
Page 166 - Redeemer's ministerial life really was ; and to justify, if need be, the noble hyperbole of the beloved apostle, that if the things which Jesus did " should be written every one, the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 114 - ... the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen, if you looked from above into the depth, this farther vastly high elevation of the cloister stood upon that height, insomuch, that if any one looked down from the top of the battlements, or down both those altitudes, he would be giddy, while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth.
Page 199 - And when it was day, he departed, and went into a desert place ; and the people sought him. and came unto him. and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. 43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also, for therefore am I sent.
Page 311 - This question has been much debated. The most reasonable view appears to be, that though, in hurried cases like that of St. Stephen's martyrdom, the punishment of death might have been tumultuously inflicted, still that the declaration of the party of the Sanhedrin, that " it was not lawful for them to put any one to death

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