Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-five Years from the Christian Era [Paperback]

Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (Author), James Murdock (Editor), Robert S. Vidal (Translator)

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Publication Date: August 2006

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: S. Converse Subjects: Church history Rome History / Ancient / Rome Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: § XLVI. Formation of this our World. Its structure and design. Jlan having been formed by the Prince of darkness, and the souls, those daughters of light inclosed in his body, and the celestial elements combined with matter or with the elements of the world of darkness; nothing remained for God, who was de- Birous of rescuing those souls and the celestial elements, except, to form from the vitiated matter an intermediate world, between [p. 818.] the world of light and that of darkness, and compounded of both; which should afford to men a domicile, and to God a suitable opportunity for carrying out his purpose of gradually extracting the souls from the bodies, and separating the good matter from the bad, and restoring both to the world of light.(') Therefore, by God's command, the Living Spirit, who had already conquered the Prince of darkness, constructed this our world. In doing so, he first fabricated the sun and moon, from matter that had not been corrupted; then, from that which was but little contaminated, he formed the ether, and the stars which revolve in the ether; and lastly, from that which was entirely pervaded by depraved matter, he constructed this our earth.(') And, as the son of the First Man, whose name was Jesus, was still detained a captive in the bodies of the Prince of darkness and his associates, those miserable Beings were to be confined, lest they should abscond with their plunder: and therefore the Living Spirit chain...

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• Paperback: 1082 pages
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub (August 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597527041
• ISBN-13: 978-1597527040
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 2.4 inches
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