 | Edward Gibbon - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 678
...opinion, which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed,...kingdom of heaven, were at hand.* The near approach of tLis wonderful event had been predicted by the apostles; the tradition of it was preserved by their... | |
 | Israel Perkins Warren - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...approach of this wonderful event had been predicted by the apostles ; the tradition of it had been preserved by their earliest disciples, and those who...discourses of Christ himself were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of man in the clouds before that generation was totally extinguished... | |
 | 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...opinion which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed...that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven (by which they meant Christ's reign on earth) were at hand." In the theological and moral darkness... | |
 | Nathaniel West - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...opinion which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience; It was universally believed...that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven (by which they meant Christ's reign on earth) were at hand." In the theological and moral darkness... | |
 | Josiah Litch - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...witness, (GIBBON, Dec. and Fall. chap. 15) .• " In the primitive church it was universally helieved that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven...been predicted by the apostles ; the tradition of it had been preserved by their earliest disciples, and those who understood in their literal sense the... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...Symbol, p. 187. > Homboldt : Arner. Sea., vol. 1. p. 91. • Acoeta : Bint. Indies, vol. ii.p. 513. found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed,...end of the world and the kingdom of heaven were at hand.1 The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted, as we have seen, by the Apostles... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...Symbol, p. 187. > Hnmboldt : Amer. Kea., -vol. ip 91. • Acoata : Hist. Indies, vol. ii.p. 513. found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed, that the end of the world and tlie kingdom of h-eaven were at hand.1 The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted,... | |
 | 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...opinion which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable 'to experience. It was universally believed...disciples, and those who understood in their literal senses the discourse of Christ himself were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It v/ was universally believed that the end of the world...discourses of Christ himself were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of Man in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished,... | |
 | Angelo Hall - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 100
...XV of the Decline and Fajl of the Roman Empire) : " It was universally believed [among Christians] that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven...wonderful event had been predicted by the apostles." What wonder that by the middle of the second century AD the great teacher of divine truth had become... | |
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In the primitive church the influence of truth was very powerfully strengthened by an opinion which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed that the end... 
