...observe where St. Mark had matter in common with St. Matthew ; since the copies of St. Mark's Gospel at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century had probably ho sections or divisions marked in them, but were written without distinction in one continued...

...the fabrication of such works, in the greatest number, as far as I have seen reason to conclude, was the end of the first, and the beginning of the second century. The histories alluded to by St. Luke were in all probability as honest and faithful as historical compositions...

...4, in Gem.) wherein are divers relations of R. Eliezer, the great friend of R. Akiba, who lived in the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, concerning the Gospels, and the public worship rendered to Jesus Christ by the Christians. In a word,...

...4, in Gem.) wherein are divers relations of R. Eliezer, the great friend of R. Akiba, who lived in the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, concerning the Gospels, and the public worship rendered to Jesus Christ by the Christians. In a word,...

...schools of Gaul were resorted to by the Britons who pursued the study of the law : Juvenal, who lived in the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, speaks, in one of his Satires, of eloquent Gaul instructing the pleaders of Britain. But even already...

...the Gospels were generally received among Christians. But the old men of this period were born about the end of the first, and the beginning of the second century. During their youth, they had been contemporary with those who had been contemporary with the Apostles...

...name's sake. The same may be said of the passage in the life of Nero, by Suetonius, who flourished in the end of the first and the beginning of the second century of the Christian era. The passage is very brief, and states neither the nature nor the extent of the...

...exhibit what within a certain sphere had been the general custom of the earliest age, that is to say, of the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, or in the Johannean and Ignatian age. What else, indeed, could the authors of the so-called Apostolical...

...influences were gradually but subtilely at work through the age succeeding that of the apostles ; so that, at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, their power was strongly felt. As the age wore on the novelty of the new opinions began to wear off,...

...goes to the table and picks up 'The Apostolic Fathers.'] The scene is in the Roman Empire, the time is at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, and yet we are at once aware that we have left the precincts of the ancient world and have entered...