...the Old Testament, if it had not been there. t" What is now called the Christian religion," says he, "has existed among the ancients ; and was not absent...which existed already, began to be called Christian. Prom this point of view the words of Christ too, which startled the Jews, assume their true meaning,...

...ancients, nor has it been wanting from the beginning of the human race, until Jesus Christ himself came in the flesh, from which time the true religion, which existed before, began to be called Christian." 91 And let my readers judge of your assertions, from the following...

...religion existed among the ancients ; nor was it wanting from the beginning of the human race till Christ came in the flesh ; from which time the true religion, which had always existed, began to be called Christian." Jewish converts of course retained the fixed idea...

...Christian religion existed among the ancients; nor was it wanting from the beginning of the human race till Christ came in the flesh; from which time the true religion, which had always existed, began to be called Christian." Jewish converts of course retained the fixed idea...

...words : What is now called the Christian religion has existed amongst the ancients, and was not yet absent from the beginning of the human race, until...which existed already, began to be called Christian. The sentiment would in our day be pronounced by many to be loose and rationalistic ; but it is true...

...religion," said this most orthodox of the fathers, " has existed among the ancients, and was not yet absent from the beginning of the human race, until...which existed already, began to be called Christian." It can no longer be said that religion in rektion to moral 369 science has been what astrology was...

...there has been no entirely new religion since the beginning of the world." St. Augustine says that " what is now called the Christian religion has existed...beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh ;" and the design of these essays is to show how the radical ideas of religion revealed by Almighty...

...of the old Christian fathers as to induce St. Augustine to startle even his admirers by saying : — What is now called the Christian religion has existed...was not absent from the beginning of the human race nntil Christ came in the flesh, from which time the true religion, which existed already, began to...

...philosophers, or the philosophers Christians.' 'What is now called the Christian religion,' said Augustine, ' has existed among the ancients, and was not absent...which existed already, began to be called Christian.' Jerome said that ' the knowledge of God was present by nature in all, nor was there any one born without...

...the Christian religion has existed among the 1 In his " Homerische Theologie." Naegelsbach, p. 355. W ancients, and was not absent from the beginning of...which existed already began to be called Christian." The religious aspirations of the heathen world, however unsatisfied, however misguided, the glimmerings...