The Old and New Testament Connected Volume 2; In the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, to the Time of Christ
The Old and New Testament Connected Volume 2; In the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, to the Time of Christ
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...For, if all men be necessarily predetermined to all their actions, whether good or evil, by an unalterable and irresistible fate, there can then be no merit, nor demerit, nor reason for any endeavour at all, either after religion or righteousness among mankind. And when the institutions of this sect carry with them so ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...For, if all men be necessarily predetermined to all their actions, whether good or evil, by an unalterable and irresistible fate, there can then be no merit, nor demerit, nor reason for any endeavour at all, either after religion or righteousness among mankind. And when the institutions of this sect carry with them so great a distance and disparity from those of Christ and his apostles, what argument of similitude between them can possibly be framed, for the proving of the one to be the parent of the other? I must not omit to acknowledge, that there is another piece of Philo's concerning those Essenes. It is a part of his apology for the Jews, which he composed with intent to have delivered it at his audience of Caligula, on his embassy to him from the Jews of Alexandria, would he have heard him. This tract of Philo's is not now among his works, it being all lost excepting one fragment of it, preserved by Eusebius, in his eighth book de Preparatione Evangelica, cap. 11. And this is that piece which I mean; but it containing nothing but what is to be found in the other accounts of this sect above recited, I have avoided the inserting of it, that I might not tire the reader with an unnecessary repetition, to whom I fear I have already been too tiresome in this matter. There was another sect among the Jews, called the Herodians. This, indeed, had its date long after the times which I am now upon, as having its rise from Herod, king of Judea, called Herod the Great; but having been more than once made mention of in the gospels,1 it is not to be omitted. And since I have here undertaken to give an account of all the other sects of the Jews, I think it proper here to place an account of this also. It is not to be doubted but that they had this name from Herod the...
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No edition stated, volume 4 only (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), title, 432pp + index. One folding map (of Syria et Assyria). Full brown calf, gilt-tooled spine. The binding is a little rubbed and scuffed, and there is some foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good plus condition. Please note that this is volume 4 only.
