...provincial synods do not appear as a constant and regular institution, fixed to definite times, until the end of the second or the beginning of the third .century ; and it was in this case a peculiarity of one country, where particular local causes may have introduced...

...by the prayers of the Bishop : we know, from the best authorities, that this practice prevailed at the end of the second or the beginning of the third century, and that it was intended to signify the grace of the Holy Spirit, then conferred by the laying on of...

...oppose the yiew of the Nazarenes. The rise* of the Clementine homilies may be placed, most probably, at the end of the second or the beginning of the third century ; where the Greek philosophy and speculative knowledge (y»-oj(7«s) began the contest with Christianity...

...assemblies, called together at stated seasons, these provincial synods do not fall under our notice before the end of the second or the beginning of the third century. And even then it is only as a peculiar practice of a single district, where local causes may have introduced...

...assemblies, called together at stated seasons, these provincial synods do not fall under our notice before the end of the second or the beginning of the third century. And even then it is only as a peculiar practice of a single district, where local causes may have introduced...

...Pentateuch alxo in quarto, in 1731, with Latin translations. He reckons these versions to have been made in the end of the second or the beginning of the third century. 21. UMK.KS, Danish. The first Danish Bible was' published by Peter Palladns, Olaiis Chrysoslom, John...

...entitle him to say that they had been subjugated to Christ. From a statement such as this, made at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third century, we may justly infer that Christianity had been known in Britain at least in the early part of the second...

...provincial synods do not appear as a constant and regular institution, fixed to definite times, until the end of the second, or the beginning of the third century ; and it was, in this case, a peculiarity of one country, where particular local causes may have introduced...

...difficult to assign the exact date of these venerable canons ; but Bishop Beveridge places them at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third century. It being thus apparent, that, from the very first, excommunication was a regular part of the discipline...

...be pretended that the passage is any easier, from the apostolic Fathers to those who wrote towards the end of the second, or the beginning of the third century. Here, again, is an abyss to be crossed at any cost, for to fill it up is impossible. There lies here...