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Even the harsh parts? Like the genocide of the Amalekites and the laws on rape victims? The permission given to take the virgins of conquered peoples and use them as concubines (sex slaves really, since they had no marital rights and had the same status as slaves)?
I ask this because it is so...
Once upon a time a tribal leader wanted to unite his people who had recently faced hard times and come out of it the worse for wear. He decided that something to get them to look away from their troubles and bruised hopes was necessary. Something that would kindle hope for a better future...
visionary, the paragraph starts at verse 12 thus:Hearing that John had been arrested he withdrew to Galilee, and leaving Nazara he went and settled in Capernaum, beside the lake, on the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali. This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: Land of Zebulun...
One year AFTER the arrest of saint John the Baptist. The Gospel according to saint John covers the years of the Lord Jesus Christ's ministry before saint John the Baptist was arrested.
12. John accordingly, in his Gospel, records the deeds of Christ which were performed before the Baptist was...
visionary, post #48 is the text of Book III, chapter 24 of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History. You've referred to paragraph 8 in that chapter as part of your proofs that the ministry of Jesus lasted one year. Paragraphs 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 explain that the gospel of saint John covers a longer...
Aren't we discussing the gospel according to saint John?
Eusebius says:
Chapter 24. The Order of the Gospels.
1. This extract from Clement I have inserted here for the sake of the history and for the benefit of my readers. Let us now point out the undisputed writings of this apostle.
2. And...