 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1814 - 518 pages
...from Suetonius, a Roman historian, who wrote, about the same time, the biography of the emperours. His words are these : " There had been for a long...destined, about that time, to obtain the empire of the world."f The third passage is from Tacitus, an historian of veracity and universal credit. He has been... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1815 - 446 pages
...from Suetonius, a Roman historian, who wrote, about the same time, the biography of the emperours. His words are these : " There had been for a long...that it was in the books of the fates, that some one fr>m Judea was destined, about that time, to obtain the empire of the world."f The third passage is... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...from Suetonius, a Roman historian, who wrote, about the same time, the biography of the emperours. His words are these ; " There had been for a long...destined, about that time, to obtain the empire of the world."f The third passage is from Tacitus, an historian of veracity and universal credit. He has been... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...them, to hope that neither does this relate to Christians. 3. In his life of Vespasian, he says, " There had been for a long time all over the East, a notion firmly believed, that it was in the fates (in the decrees or books of the fates) that at that time, some which came out of Judea should... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1832 - 1060 pages
...postea eventu pat u it, praedictum, Judœi, ad se habentes, rebellàrunt Suetonius, Vespasian, с. 4. "There had been for a long time all over the East a constant persuasion, that it was [recorded] in the Fates [books of the Fates, de" That which chiefly... | |
 | Jews - 1832 - 592 pages
...prevalent anticipation of a Messiah. Suetonius, in his life of Vespasian, has these remarkable words. " There had been for a long time all over the East a constant persuasion, that it was in the fates, that at that time some who should come of .Indira should... | |
 | Charles Spear - 1841 - 410 pages
...should come out of Judea should obtain the empire of the world.' — TACITUS, History, chap. xiii. J ' There .had been for a long time all over the East a constant persuasion, that it was (recorded) in the Fates (books of the Fates, decrees, or foretellings)... | |
 | James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 728 pages
...former attributes to this, the war which resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem, by Titus. He says : " There had been for a long time, all over the east, a prevailing opinion, that it was in the fates (in the decrees or book of the fates) that at that time,... | |
 | Christian class book - 1845 - 202 pages
...Jews') country, should obtain the empire of the world." Josephus de Bell. lib. vi. cap. 5 sect. 4. " There had been for a long time, all over the east, a notion firmly believed, that it was in the fates (in the decrees of the fates,) that at the time some which came out of Judea, should obtain the... | |
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... 2. Suetonius, in his life of Vespasian, says, " There had been for a long time all over the East, a notion firmly believed that at that time some which came out of Judaea should obtain the empire of the world. 
