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51701 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 21.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… the time expected. We did believe that he would come at that time; and now, though we sorrow on account of our disappointment, yet we rejoice that we have acted …
51702 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 27.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… meaning of the word “Antichrist,” even a vice-Christ. And if so, then every time the Pope claims to be the vicar of Christ, he pleads at the bar of the world that he …
51703 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 37.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… possessed of the very archetypes, of which paganism attempted the shadows; the rulers of the church from early times were prepared, should the occasion arise …
51704 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 40.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… informs us out of former writers that the twentieth year of this Artaxerxes was the one hundred fifteenth year from the beginning of the reign of Cyrus in …
51705 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 41.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… of Syria; it is more accurate with us to say autumn than summer, as the margin of time lies between the latter part of August and the latter part of November …
51706 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 67.8 (General Conference of SDA)
… of Naaman in the river Jordan. The word taval is used fifteen times in the Old Testament, and is rendered in our common English version fourteen times by …
51707 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 73.8 (General Conference of SDA)
… of what was formerly regarded as prehistoric times.... These marvelous revelations from the archives of the nations of the past have painted for us a new …
51708 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 87.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… ancient times, use the greatest plainness of speech throughout Syria. As soon as one acquires a knowledge of common Arabic the ear is assailed by a plain speaking …
51709 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 88.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… collection of books which were written by different persons, in different languages, in different lands, and at different times. Seventeen centuries were …
51710 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 90.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… time of Julius Casar, about fifty years before the Christian era; but the translation was preserved by the numerous transcripts taken for the use of the …
51711 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 98.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… traditions of the origin of mankind till his death. This interval of time was little short of three thousand years; but as to the time from the death of Moses …
51712 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 103.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… Apostolic Times.—We, therefore, proceed to observe that we possess an uninterrupted series of writings from the apostolic times to the present day; and that …
51713 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 109.2 (General Conference of SDA)
Censorship of Books .—Numerous editions of the Index [ Librorum Prohibitorum ] have appeared from time to time. That issued under Benedict XIV (Rome, 1744) contains …
51714 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 113.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… , First Use of the Combination.—The combination “the Catholic Church “is found for the first time in the letter of St. Ignatius to the Smyrnaans, written about …
51715 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 117.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… his usefulness to the church than to his own reformation, and not hesitating at singular indecencies in its portion having reference to married life.—“ History …
51716 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 129.10 (General Conference of SDA)
… was used and known in and before Maccabean times, meets this theory as fully as that of the rejecters of Daniel altogether. The question, whether it was worthy …
51717 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 131.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… product of Maccabee times. The language then is one mark of genuineness, set by God on the book. Rationalism must rebel, as it has rebelled; but it dare not now …
51718 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 141.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… of merely speculating concerning it, the event would not be discredited thereby as a merciful sign of the approaching end of probationary time.—Eds …
51719 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 144.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… of falling buildings, and appalling subterranean rumblings, and the thoughts of all are turned, where they always are instinctively in times of unexpected …
51720 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 155.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… of the Dardanelles in defiance of treaties, and hoped to prevent the occupation of Constantinople by the Russians. It was not war, but a threat of war. So …