...undoubted. It is of great importance to the character of this epistle, that in the Syriac version, made at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, while the second epistle of Peter, the second and third of John, and the Apocalypse, are omitted, the...

...undoubted. It is of great importance to the character of this epistle, that in the Syriac version, made at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, while the second epistle of Peter, the second and third of John, and the Apocalypse, are omitted, the...

...reign of Herod', before the birth of Christ: and even if written after Christ, it will still belong to the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century. The Gospel of St. Matthew, according to the Nazarenes, existed in the vernacular Hebrew, in the library...

...of Herod ', before the birth of Christ : and even if written after Christ, it will still belong to the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century. The Gospel of St. Matthew, according to the Nazarenes, existed in the vernacular Hebrew, in the library...

...afraid,' we must conjecture that the genuine ending of the Gospel was lost ; and that it was completed at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century by some unknown person." Scholia in Marc. and there is again strong reason for doubting whether she...

...a remedy against schism, Flaccius himself remarks, " Hence it is evident that, about this time, in the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, this alteration took place, so that Episcopacy is not so much by divine appointment as by human authority."...

...concerned with characters and customs."-f Ancient versions, too, of the New Testament were made as early as the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, especially the Syriac and different Latin versions. Its early general diffusion throughout the world...

...Ecclesiae Catholicae,' after admitting the preceding conclusion, imagines that this article was inserted at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, when heretics and schismatics began to form separate congre1 Tertull. de Bapt. s. 6. ed. Rigalt, p....

...taken. 2. ASCLEPIAHES I'HAK.MACION ( •to^nuoo* ) ,<r JUNIOR, a physician who must have lived at thf end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, as he quotes Andromachiu. l)ioscorides,and Scibonius Largus (Gal./)f Gaepv. Mfdicam. sec. I*ocos, vii....

...cogent arguments in favour of its high antiquity, has inferred that it must have existed, either at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. This great age, and its frequent deviation from the common reading in passages of importance, must...