The Tree of Life: A Study of ReligionHutichinson & Company, 1905 - 337 sivua |
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Sivu 99 - And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.
Sivu 185 - I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
Sivu 19 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Sivu 19 - For, first, there is not to be found in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others...
Sivu 36 - The author is aware that the essence of the Christian faith is perfectly independent of his criticism. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
Sivu 51 - That invisible power which is believed by the natives to cause all such effects as transcend their conception of the regular course of nature, and to reside in spiritual beings, whether in the spiritual part of living men or in the ghosts of the dead, being imparted by them to their names and to various things that belong to them, such as stones, snakes, and indeed objects of all sorts, is that generally known as mana.
Sivu 75 - In those Three Persons the One God was shown, Each First in place, each Last — not one alone ; Of Siva, Vishnu, Brahma, each may be First, second, third, among the Blessed Three.
Sivu 20 - There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned goodness, education, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public...
Sivu 91 - Then, accompanied only by his pages, be repaired to a small and lonely temple by the wayside. Like the Mexican temples in general, it was built in the form of a pyramid ; and as the young man ascended the stairs he broke at every step one of the flutes on which he had played in the days of his glory. On reaching the summit he was seized and held down by the priests on his back upon a block of stone, while one of them cut open his breast, thrust his hand into the wound, and wrenching^ out his heart...
Sivu 275 - And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.