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95141 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.20
… Christian faith among the "atrocious and abominable things" (atrocia aut pudenda) which flooded Rome, and further designates it superstitio exitiabilis …
95142 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.22
… new faith was already on the offensive. Philosophy discovered its own weakness and began to reform itself by aiming at being both a philosophy and a religion …
95143 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.26
… Christian faith was unknown to Roman authorities. It appeared first merely as a reformed and more spiritual Judaism; its earliest preachers and adherents …
95144 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.27
… new faith, though this emperor was credited with proposing to the senate a decree to receive Christ into the Roman pantheon--legend of course. Under the brief …
95145 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.31
… Jewish faith was certe licita and a recognized worship of the empire.
95146 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.32
… calm faith amid the despair of others would easily cast suspicion upon them. (5) For whatever reason, they had earned the opprobrium of the populace. "The hatred …
95147 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.33
… new faith. The Flavians could not avoid following the precedent set by Nero. Christianity was spreading--especially in the East and at Rome. We have no account …
95148 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.37
… the faith (an flagitia cohaerentia nomini)? He then explains his procedure: he gave those who were accused an abundant opportunity of recanting; those who …
95149 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.42
… new faith. The central government "was all this time without a permanent or steady policy toward the Christians. It had not yet made up its mind" (Hardy).
95150 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.43
… new faith and the government in this period is somewhat differently estimated by Ramsay and by Hardy. The latter thinks (Christianity and Roman Government …
95151 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.44
… Roman faith, and were eclectic in their religious views, was of much importance to the new eastern faith. Moreover, some of the emperors proved not only not …
95152 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.48
… Christian faith were largely political; he wished simply to be on the winning side. With each fresh success he inclined more toward Christianity, though …
95153 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 3.7
… Christian faith. Its sterling qualities were best shown in persecution and the heroic deaths of its adherents. Paganism, even with the alliance of the civil …
95154 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.19
… on faith and justification ( James 2:1 - 26 ) has no reference to perversions of Pauline teaching, but deals with rabbinism. Clement of Rome repeatedly quotes …
95155 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.26
… Christian faith" (from the present writer's introduction to the Epistle in the Temple Bible; see also his Light from the First Days: Short Studies in 1 Thessalonians …
95156 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.36
… Christian faith. And then again he lays down for the too eager champions of the new "liberty" a law of loving tolerance toward slower and narrower views which …
95157 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.38
… remission, faith and obedience, suffering and glory, transcendent hope and humblest duty, now in their relation to the soul, now so as to develop the holy collectivity …
95158 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.43
… by faith." And "justification" is more than forgiveness; it is not merely the remission of a penalty but a welcome to the offender, pronounced to be lawfully at …
95159 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.47
… the faith which receives Him as our all, it is ipso facto never received alone but with all His other gifts, for it becomes ours as we receive, not merely one truth …
95160 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Rome.25
… offered faithful testimony of the earlier period (Livy vi.1). It is known that there was a settlement on the site of Rome before the traditional date of the founding …