The Archko Library: Translated from Ancient Manuscripts at the Vatican of Rome, and the Seraglio Library at Constantinople

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W. C. Fisk, 1904 - 126 Seiten
 

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Seite 46 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, That he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, The land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Seite 46 - How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter ? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Seite 35 - ... but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, that the world is to be overcome, and the kingdom of righteousness and peace established.
Seite 46 - Here again are set forth the same things that Isaiah speaks of, and the same things that I have learned from Mary. Micah, section 5 : ' Thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, thou art little among the thousands of Judah ; out of thee shall come forth unto me him that shall rule my people. He is from everlasting ; and I will give them up until the time she travaileth to bring forth my first born, that he may rule all people.
Seite 98 - He has blasphemed ; he has prophesied the ruin of the temple ; he calls himself the Son of God, the Messiah, the King of the Jews.
Seite 91 - Jesus/ said I unto him at last — and my tongue faltered — 'Jesus of Nazareth, for the last three years I have granted you ample freedom of speech; nor do I regret it. Your words are those of a sage. I know not whether you have read Socrates or Plato, but this I know, there is in your discourses a majestic simplicity that elevates you far above those philosophers.
Seite 87 - One day in passing by the place of Siloe, where there was a great concourse of people, I observed in the midst of the group a young man who was leaning against a tree, calmly addressing the multitude. I was told it was Jesus. This I could easily have suspected, so great was the difference between him and those listening to him.
Seite 92 - Prince of the earth, your words proceed not from true wisdom. Say to the torrent to stop in the midst of the mountain-gorge : it will uproot the trees of the valley. The torrent will answer you that it obeys the laws of nature and the Creator. God alone knows whither flow the waters of the torrent. Verily I say unto you, before the rose of Sharon blossoms the blood of the just shall be spilt.
Seite 63 - ... doctrines, but I do not think he wished to abolish the latter, or even the traditional laws, but merely to supersede them by a higher life. The natural result of all this was that he disregarded the laws of Levitical cleanness, which were considered so important by the Shammaites and Essenes, and also by the Hillelites. This is the point where division commenced, and the breach grew wider and wider until an insurrection must have been the result. He so far cut himself loose from the Jews that...
Seite 107 - Bethlehem ; that the same person had been on the earth before with Abraham and Lot, and at many times and places. " It seems to me that, if the Jewish theory be true, these conclusions are correct, for they are in accord with this man's life, as is known and testified by both friends and foes, for the elements were no more in his hands than the clay in the hands of the potter. He could convert water into wine ; he could change death into life...

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