An Exposition of the Creed, Revised and Corrected by T. Chevallier (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...Add to this un-Luke mi. 1. tractable and irreconcileable spirit, by which he had so often exasperated the Jews, an avaricious and rapacious disposition, which prompted him as much to please them; and we may easily perceive what moved him to condemn that person to death whom he declared innocent. The evangelist telleth us that Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto Mark It. Is. them, and delivered Jesus to be crucified. They accused him at Rome, for all the insolences and rapines which he had committed, and by this act he thought to pacify them1. It was thus necessary to express the person under whom our Saviour suffered; first, that we might for ever be assured of the time in which he suffered2. The enemies of Christianity began first to unsettle the time of his passion, that thereby they might at last deny the passion itself; and the rest of their falsehood was detected by the discovery of their false chronology8. Some fixed it to the seventh year of the reign of Tiberius4, whereas it is certain Pontius Pilate was not then 1 For that which is observed by Philo upon the dedication of the shields at the first entrance into his government, must needs be much more true at this time of our Saviour's passion, when he had committed so many more insolences, viz. that he feared the Jews should complain of him to Tiberius: Td reKtvratov Tovto fidXiara avrbv i fTpdxvrei KaraSeiffairra /it) T(? Sm TpcvfScvad/iaioi Ko.1 Ttjj Axxiji avrou ftrcT/XMrij- i(tty(wrt T4i SwpoSoiclai, Tai vfipca, Tas dprayds, rAt afcias, Taj iirriptlas, rods dxplrovt /cal iraXXiJXom tpbvovs, Ttjv dvipivrov Kox dpyaurdTijy wfilmp-a Sie cB6rres. De Virtut, et Legal, ad Caium, Tom. n. p. 590.1. --. 1 'Cautissime qui Symbolum tradiderunt, etiam tempu...