 | Alexander Nicoll - 1830 - 408 pàgines
...actually exist, we cannot but infer from the words of St. Luke, who in his preface says, " Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a...those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 378 pàgines
...brief, but, as I think, very important and instructive preface : ' Forasmuch (says the evangelist) as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a...declaration of those things which are most surely believed amongst us, even as they delivered them unto us, which, from the beginning, were eye-witnesses and... | |
 | David Pickering - 1830 - 224 pàgines
...of the NewTestament. 159 Text — ST. LUKE i. 1 — 4. " Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1831 - 478 pàgines
...written Gospel at that time ; for he cannot be supposed to refer to such when he says, " Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a...those things which are most surely believed among us ;" and if he had known that Matthew had written a Gospel, he could not easily have avoided some reference... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1831 - 212 pàgines
...year 168. Theophilus was a convert from the heathen world, and Luke thus addresses him : " Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a...those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which, from the beginning, were eye witnesses, and ministers of... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 pàgines
...brief, but, as I think, very important and instructive preface : " Forasmuch (says the evangelist) in the mouths, of those who use them philosophically, seem to be^ intended, to admit and to express amongst its, even as they delivered them unto us, which, from the beginning, were eye-witnesses and... | |
 | William Greenfield - 1831 - 310 pàgines
...transactions they record ; as St. Luke expressly affirms in the beginningof his-Gospel : ' Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a...declaration of those things which are most surely believed amongst us ; even as they delivered them unto us, which, from the beginning, were eye-witnesses and... | |
 | William Greenfield - 1831 - 300 pàgines
...transactions they record ; as St. Luke expressly affirms in the beginning of his Gospel : ' Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a...declaration of those things which are most surely believed amongst us ; even as they delivered them unto us, which, from the beginning, were eye-witnesses and... | |
 | 1831 - 294 pàgines
.... . 243 HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS. PART I. EVENTS PRECEDING THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. LUKE I. 1 FOBASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely be2 lieved among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 pàgines
...brief, but, as I think, very important and instructive preface : — " Forasmuch (says the evangelist) houghts, as some writers upon the subject absurdly confound what is constitutional w arc most surely belictcd amongst us, ercn as Ihty dclircrcd tlicm •unto ns, which, from the beginning,... | |
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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus... 
