The Churches and Modern Thought. Vivian Phelips
appearing in the
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Paley’s
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In his book,
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In his notable oration upon the apparitions of Llanthony.
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See p. 132 of
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See p. 222 of
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See p. 51 of
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Extract from a sermon preached in St. Paul’s, Finsbury, on November 23rd, 1904.
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This explanation has been given by the Rev. Samuel Cox, and it is quoted with approval by the Bishop of London on p. 63 of his little work,
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See p. 41 of
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Article “Genesis.”
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By the author of
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See
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See article “Paul” in the
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See article “Epistolary Literature” in the
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Swedenborgians (the New Jerusalem Church) are to be found scattered throughout almost every part of Christendom. In England, principally in Lancashire and Yorkshire, there are seventy-five societies with 6,063 registered members.
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Eight persons in all testify to the apparition of the Virgin Mary in the Abbot’s meadow at Llanthony on September 15th, 1880.
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Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.
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See p. 31 of
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See, for instance, art. “Moses,”
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Quoted from a sermon by the Bishop of London in Fulham parish, Christmas Day, 1904. Compare this with Dr. Kirkpatrick’s remark, p. 2 of his book,
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“The adjective ‘higher’ (the sense of which is often misunderstood) has reference simply to the higher and more difficult class of problems, with which, as opposed to textual criticism, the ‘higher’ criticism has to deal” (see Preface to
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See Appendix.
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Exodus xxxi. 18 and xxxii. 16. Or, to be precise, these having been broken and their fragments considered of no value at the time, the duplicates carefully prepared and inscribed to the dictation of God Himself (Exodus xxxix.).
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Believed to date from about 853 B.C. The inscription records the victories of King Mesha over the Israelites.
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Erected in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes, 106 B.C. Famous as having furnished the first key for the interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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In
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The late Rev. A. B. Bruce, D.D., Professor of Apologetics and New Testament Exegesis, Free Church College, Glasgow.
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Author of various theological works, Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, 1876; Select Preacher, Oxford, 1877.
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The interpolation in the last chapter of St. Mark goes back far into the second century. It is important to bear in mind that none of the dates given by Dr. Harnack and other authorities applies to the Gospels exactly as we now have them. Accounts of miracles have been added subsequently!
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W. C. van Manen, D.D., Professor of Old-Christian Literature and New Testament Exegesis, Leyden.
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Spoken in an address to the St. Paul’s Lecture Society, at the opening of a new session in 1904.
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The italics in these quotations from Dr. Harnack are mine.
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Fully reported in the
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The Greek version, known as the Septuagint (LXX.), made in Egypt in the third and second centuries B.C. for the use of the numerous body of Greek-speaking Jews and proselytes in that country.
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A Greek document which is supposed to have existed and then to have been entirely lost (imagine God’s Word
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See art. “Gospels,” in the
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In his address at the Church Congress held at Weymouth in 1905.
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In his address at the Church Congress held at Weymouth in 1905.
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In his work,
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The Dean of Canterbury, speaking on the Bishop of Winchester’s paper at the Church Congress, 1903.
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The Dean of Canterbury, speaking in St. Mary Bredin’s Church, Canterbury, December 4th, 1904.
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See Appendix.
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See Bk. VIII., chap. ii., par. 2, on p. 324, vol. i.