| 单词 | before Christ |
| 例句 | In all that follows, here and in the rest of the book, the date given is to be understood as before Christ, unless it is otherwise stated. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z However tentatively, the results indicated that the various Algonkian languages in New England all date back to a common ancestor that appeared in the Northeast a few centuries before Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z More than a thousand years before Christ, near the eastern end of the Mediterranean was a great city very rich and powerful, second to none on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not a one of those men will ever see a son born to carry on his name. And you dare to gloat before Christ himself about your undeserved blessing.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The first and better known is Mesoamerica, where half a dozen societies, the Olmec first among them, rose in the centuries before Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Greek mythology begins with Homer, generally believed to be not earlier than a thousand years before Christ. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Over 2,000 years before Christ’s birth, Miles said, the scriptures foreshadow the gift of righteousness available through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Second Sunday of Lent: Pastor recalls worshipping with Christians in Ukraine 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The historical record clearly shows that Sennacherib, king of Assyria some 700 years before Christ, built a fantastic tiered garden, which was no easy feat in that dry land. Television Review: ‘Secrets of the Dead’ Seeks Ancient Gardens 2014-05-05T21:45:41Z The shape of the boats goes back eight centuries before Christ to when Malta was a Phoenician colony. Malta: A citadel of many cultures in the middle of the Mediterranean 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The shower in at least one of Simona’s rooms is built into a former Roman grain silo from many years before Christ. The 52 Places Traveler: Two Versions of the Slow Life in Central and Southern Italy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z This salt-making region was a Carthaginian stronghold centuries before Christ, and you can still see Carthaginian ruins amid Roman ruins: Here, like elsewhere on the island, you’ll enjoy many layers of history. Celebrating Sicily: Italy at its most extreme 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The 12 apostles pass before Christ, while a rooster beats his wings. 36 Hours in Strasbourg, France 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Virtually the entire period of planetary existence is lumped into the condescending unit “before Christ.” 1994 Was a Prison of My Own Making 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Armenians, who are Christian, claim a long presence in the area, dating back to several centuries before Christ. Explainer: What is happening between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh? 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Armenians, who are Christians, claim a long historical dominance in the area, dating back to several centuries before Christ. Explainer: What is Nagorno-Karabakh - and why are tensions rising? 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Archaeologist Richard Hansen knelt and removed a tarp covering the structure’s nearly intact stucco masks, then enthusiastically explained the meaning of the inscriptions dating back at least 200 years before Christ. Jaguars, narcos, illegal loggers: One man's battle to save a Guatemalan jungle and Maya ruins 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Almost half of the village’s residents — more than 1,800 people, including 400 children — will participate in the play about the last five days before Christ’s crucifixion. Centuries-old passion play returns after pandemic break 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z "Scripture is clear that all people are created in God's image and therefore equal in every way before Christ and our personal need of Him as Savior and Lord," Johnson said. GOP Rep Dismukes who attended KKK leader's birthday party won't resign from office 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Instead, the famous “Nazareth inscription” was likely created to guard the grave of a Greek tyrant who died a few decades before Christ. Tablet thought to have guarded tombs after Jesus’s death may not be what it seems 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z "I worked for others before Christ," he said. Kanye West celebrates one year of Sunday Service at Los Angeles homeless shelter: 'This thing saved my life' 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The “sinners” run and kneel before Christ to beg for their sins to be redeemed. Unrepentant ‘sinners’ romp in Spanish town at Corpus Christi 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z She showed that that world’s gatekeepers, its voracious “discernment bloggers,” don’t have the final say about one’s standing before Christ. Perspective | Instead of throwing out God or church, Rachel Held Evans demonstrated a robust Christian faith 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z Most span the Bronze Age of the third and second millennia before Christ to the rise of Islam in the 7th century A.D. Animal-themed drinkware shows ancients partied in beast mode 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z The Passionists are set apart from other cloistered orders for their focus on the final hours before Christ’s death and the belief that there is spiritual value to sacrifice and suffering. St. Louis County convent is like a place out of time 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He felt the Holy Spirit urging him to walk to the altar and humble himself before Christ. After November’s tumult, Va.’s new speaker seeks footing in remade House 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s more like opposition to the 8th century — before Christ. Donald and Vlad are still a deadly combo: Either as partners or rivals, they’re waging a war against civilization 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z There is a reason that prayer beads are common in so many religious traditions dating to well before Christ. I was my husband’s caregiver as he was dying of cancer. It was the best seven months of my life. 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z “The times are set down in years before Christ,” Newton wrote, but he didn’t use abbreviations. Now You Know: When Did People Start Saying That the Year Was 'A.D.'? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Hammurabi, ruler of Babylonia almost two thousand years before Christ, listed the protection of widows and orphans as an essential part of his famous legal code. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The trade goes back to First Dynasty, 3,100 years before Christ. In Egypt, dye workshop fights to survive 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is said to have been the 13th person at the last supper before Christ’s death. Your Friday Briefing: ‘Jihadi John,’ University of Missouri, Justin Bieber 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z An unbroken indigenous Indian tradition which began with the murals of Ajanta 100 years before Christ, died a slow and lingering death over the second half of the 19th Century. The vivid paintings that record a Briton's love of Delhi - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The first, preindustrial agriculture, dating from before Christ to about 1920, consisted of labor-intensive, essentially subsistence farming on small farms, which took two acres to feed one person. The Internet of Things and the Future of Farming 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z A few days later, it was the ancient temple complex of Hatra, in northern Iraq, which was built by the Seleucid Empire around two or three centuries before Christ. ISIS and the Destruction of History 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z "You find this in the book of Isiah 800 years before Christ. "There are always elements of where that happens because people are people. Pay your taxes, Welby tells business 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “We were part of greater Armenia even before Christ,” she said in an interview at the State Historical Museum, where she works as a guide. Clashes Intensify Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Over Disputed Land 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The texts on the bamboo, composed more than three centuries before Christ, emphasize that following rules and fulfilling obligations are not enough to maintain social order. A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z How many of these eras exist is up to interpretation, but those of us around today are in the second-to-last era before Christ returns, Mr. Mathewson said. The Rapture: For Hollywood, the ‘end’ is the start of profits 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Archaeologists have unearthed Babylonian tablets of sun-dried clay recording obligations incurred in the third millennium before Christ. The dangers of debt: Lending weight 2013-09-12T16:46:00Z The area is of great historical importance, with sites dating back to Neolithic times, up to 5,000 years before Christ. Weather kills Welsh wild ponies 2013-04-18T20:00:47Z The church expects wars and natural disasters before Christ returns to earth in the Second Coming, and members are encouraged to prepare by laying in stores of food. Insight: Mormon church made wealthy by donations 2012-08-12T11:02:02Z An incident in the life of one of the most famous Emperors that lived two centuries before Christ will confirm my statement on this head. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Centuries before Christ was born, Buddha preached his new faith on the banks of the 252 Ganges. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Long, long before Christ, the Ibis was represented with human hands and feet, holding the staff of Isis in one hand, and a globe and cross in the other. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z The one prior to Jesus was Cyrus, who gave orders for the building of the temple at Jerusalem just six hundred years before Christ. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Whether those who had died before Christ’s coming are redeemed, the Bible does not clearly tell us. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z According to some historians, Heron lived in the second century before Christ, and according to others his work was done in the latter half of the first century. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Sewalic, or Sivalic, as it might be written, means literally the hills of Shiva, or the hills of the gods, where their worshippers built their shrines and worshipped long before Christ was born in Bethlehem. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z He is supposed to have lived more than six thousand years before Christ. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z This is the system of chronology established by Archbishop Ussher, and means that 4004 years before Christ the world was one year old. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z A rabbi, who lived nearly twenty years before Christ was born, set his pupils thinking by asking them, "What is the best thing for a man to possess?" The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z It cannot be much less than a thousand years before Christ was born when Greek ships were crossing the sea which washed their western coasts bound for Sicily and the Campanian shores. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Such complaints, real or conventional, are familiar to the readers of the literature of the last century before Christ. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Mr. Robertson said he enjoyed a glass of wine now and then — “When I was in college, I hit it pretty hard, but that was before Christ.” Pat Robertson Backs Legalizing Marijuana 2012-03-08T04:37:45Z Manetho, an Egyptian priest, who wrote a history of Egypt, by request of Ptolemy II., two hundred and eighty-six years before Christ, carries us back more than seven thousand years. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The temples of Saturn are known to have existed some 4000 years before Christ; and that those temples were medical schools in their earliest form is beyond question. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Instead of beginning practically in the fourth century of our era, with the earliest of the great vellum codices of the Bible, it now begins in the third century before Christ....” The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z It was introduced into Greece from Media, whence it received the name Medicago, and was cultivated several centuries before Christ. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z This affair I will no further mention or hint at, but hastily pass on to that other early authority, Herodotus, who was born 484 years before Christ, and whose works, thanks be, have survived. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Some portions may have been compiled eight hundred or nine hundred years before Christ, but not the two contradictory accounts of the creation and fall of man. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z When Amasis removed the mercenaries to Memphis in the middle of the sixth century before Christ the civilian population departed with them. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Though she has lost the high order of civilisation which she possessed centuries before Christ, she has in no sense relapsed into barbarism, and on the whole good order and security prevail. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Thousands of years before Christ was born billions of people had lived and died in that hope. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z All the virtues were in the world long before Christ came. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Plato, the Grecian philosopher, four hundred or five hundred years before Christ proclaimed the cross to be the best symbol of the divinity next to the supreme. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z That was said by Buddha, seven hundred years before Christ was born. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Hundreds of years before Christ, there were hospitals in India,—not only for men, women and children, but even for beasts. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Egypt, the mysterious mother of mankind, with her pyramids built thirty-four hundred years before Christ, was once the first in all the earth, and gave to us our Trinity, and our symbol of the cross. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z I mean no natural virtue, because all the natural virtues existed and had been practiced by hundreds and thousands of millions before Christ was born. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z The “Lord’s Supper” virtually was in use more than two hundred and fifty years before Christ. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z So they brought this boy before Christ, and when the boy saw him, the spirit tare him, and he fell on the ground and "wallowed, foaming." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Rudimentary safety pins were known in Egypt before Christ, but they apparently did not appear in America until the 1830's and 1840's. American Military Insignia 1800-1851 2012-02-04T03:00:18.780Z Does not Mr. Black know that, thousands of years before Christ was born, there were hospitals and asylums for orphans in China? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Long before Christ was born the Sun-God triumphed over the powers of Darkness. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z As far back even as the fifth century before Christ we find an explicit description of this Oriental rite of blood-covenanting. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z It was burned in the Bruchium Library forty-seven years before Christ. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z In any case, there is but little doubt that the population of Babylonia was very mixed 2000 years before Christ. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z The fac-simile cut partly corresponds with M. Camus’s description of Death, and the complainant before Christ seated on a throne in a heaven interspersed with stars. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Zeno, who denounced human slavery many years before Christ was born? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z It would be not so amazing if the fifth century before Christ, which produced such marvelous accomplishments in letters and art and philosophy among the Greeks, was chosen as the greatest of human epochs. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z After the Jews returned from Babylon, about 400 years before Christ, Ezra commenced making the Bible. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z From this it would appear that, taking advantage of the disorganized state of Egypt about 2100 years before Christ, these Shepherd kings invaded the country, and gradually consolidated their power there. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Earliest traces of this vice in the year 321 before Christ. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z They, like their father Nephite, for many generations were good christians, hundreds of years before Christ was born, practising baptism and other christian usages. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Great as was the Fifth Century before Christ in this matter it did not surpass the Thirteenth Century after Christ in its influence on subsequent generations. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Tell them that Deuteronomy was not written until about six hundred years before Christ. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Cicero, some forty years before Christ, shows up the doctrine of the sacrament, or substantiation, in its true light. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z A practical one in Rome at the departure of the plebeians for the holy mountains, 492 before Christ. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z But before Christ was Christ He was subject; and His initiation lasted thirty years. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z The cities of the plain were destroyed, according to Calmet’s reckoning, 1893 years before Christ; therefore, the pillar, which Josephus saw, must have then been standing more than nineteen centuries. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z They knew that God commenced to create one Monday morning, four thousand and four years before Christ. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The Indian incarnate God Chrishna, the Hindoos believe, had a virgin mother of the royal race, who was sought to be destroyed in his infancy about nine hundred years before Christ. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z In the treatment hitherto pursued we have divided the consideration of the two Powers into the period before Christ and the period which ensues upon His coming. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z He was born before Christ, and survived him. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z It seemed to him that he possessed all the world; because no man withstood him before Christ came who subdued him. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Afterward another representation of the stars was found, and by calculating in the same way, it was found that the stars did occupy the exact positions represented about three thousand eight hundred years before Christ. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Mr. Higgins declares, "Chrishna lived at the conclusion of the brazen age, which is calculated to have been eleven hundred or twelve hundred years before Christ." The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z And all miracles anterior to Christ are part of a chain of events leading on to Him, just as all martyrs before Christ have their reason of existence in Him alone. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Two hundred years before Christ one of the Chinese kings built the Great Wall that stretches across the northern frontier for one thousand three hundred miles, for a defense against northern foes. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z So were men, before Christ's advent, foolish and unclean, while they ministered to idols, and divers sins, and bowed to the images, which they themselves had wrought, and said to them, "Thou art my God." The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Recently the Code of the Assyrian King Hammurabi, who reigned two thousand three hundred years before Christ, has been discovered. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z In a word, we have shown that various heathen Gods and Demigods had, long before Christ's advent, filled the same chapter in history now reported of him in the Christian New Testament. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z In the period before Christ we have found that both Powers were originally of divine institution in the beginning of man, and that both belonged to him as a race. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z This dated from before Christ’s time, and is now in a wonderful state of preservation. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z The people who walked before Christ, and those who followed him, all sung "Osanna Filio David," that is, in our tongue, "Hail, Son of David." The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z As we have seen, in Boeotia the vowels and diphthongs began to pass into the characteristic sounds of modern Greek four centuries before Christ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Contains translations of various historians dating from 2nd century before Christ to 5th century after Christ. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z According to Max Müller, the Veda was referred to in India fifteen hundred years before Christ. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Hang, who is no mean authority in everything which concerns Zoroastrianism, states in an able resum� of the evidence, that we cannot assign a later date to the prophet than 2300 years before Christ. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z For there are two lives: the one we know, the other was unknown to us before Christ's advent. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Sappho took her place in the galaxy of literary fame six hundred years before Christ. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z About two hundred and ninety years before Christ, Philinus of Cos introduced the ancient Empiric System, which was founded upon experience and observation. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Very few of the Psalms are earlier than the seventh century before Christ. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z You know the Romans held possession of our country from the year 50 before Christ till A.D. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z During the intervals of peace in the Peloponnesian war, Alcibiades, about four hundred and fifty years before Christ, persuaded its inhabitants to build long walls down to the sea. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z When the temple of the Capitoline Jupiter was burned down eighty-four years before Christ, the Sibylline books were lost. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z The first regular system was founded by Hippocrates, about three hundred and eighty years before Christ. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Its probable date is the fifth century before Christ. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Through these six the spirit of the last centuries before Christ has once more come into being, and they collectively form an important link in the great and still continuous chain of the Renaissance. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z This peculiar slavery also existed in the early days of Rome, but in the third century before Christ it was also abolished. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z In the same way, by rubbing amber with silk, Thales, a Greek philosopher who lived in the sixth century before Christ, is thought to have discovered electricity. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z These were happily preserved and deciphered, and were found to be records of the dockyard authorities of the Athenian admiralty in the second and third centuries before Christ. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z The common assertion, that it was fixed by Ezra and the so-called Great Synagogue in the fifth century before Christ, is in direct opposition to the facts. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z We are told it was always set up with Asher, Babel, &c., under ‘every green tree’ by ancient Israel, and up to a few hundred years before Christ, and not seldom even after Christ. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z Again, we have here, as before Christ and the Universe, of which He is not only Maker, Sustainer, and Lord, but through “the blood of His cross” reconciles “all things unto Himself.” The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Herodotus, a Greek, born in Asia Minor nearly five hundred years before Christ, is called the father of history and geography. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z On this stone—the old Druidic Stone of Destiny, sacred among the Gael before Christ was born—Columba crowned Aidan King of Argyll. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z We have already seen that the book of Daniel was not written by the prophet Daniel, but by some unknown author hundreds of years later, probably in the second century before Christ. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Osiris was venerated as the incarnation of the goddess of the Deity, and according to the last-mentioned authority, was universally worshipped in Egypt as the Redeemer of souls two thousand years before Christ. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z A little lower down he again expressly quotes the words of Jesus: "For which reason our Christ declared on earth to those who asserted that Elias must come before Christ: Elias, indeed, shall come," &c. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z In the time of Homer, about ten centuries before Christ, Greek men-of-war carried crews of from fifty to one hundred and twenty men, nearly all of whom took part in the labor of rowing. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z This was more than three hundred years before Christ, and even then the Arabs had long been established in independence in their great desert peninsula. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Why, Confucius ran a Socialist government five hundred years before Christ. Why I am in favor of socialism 2011-08-22T02:01:00.513Z It is interesting to look upon an object which had a vital existence two thousand years and more before Christ was upon earth, and which is still animate. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z But long before Christ came, the Greek philosophers had prayed, and the Indian religions had had their self-denying saviours. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z A military boat called the "bireme" came into use in Greece about six or seven centuries before Christ. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The substantial idea of the lectures is that Japanese society represents the condition of ancient Greek society a thousand years before Christ. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The fanatics, as described in the second Book of Maccabees, an apocryphal writing of the second century before Christ, hoped for a corporeal resurrection and a visible supremacy. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z The first temporary star of which there is any record appeared in the constellation of the Scorpion, near the head, 134 years before Christ. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z We are not bound to the scientific notions of a period two thousand years before Christ and four thousand years before our own time. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z As early as twelve centuries before Christ they were founding colonies, exploring strange lands, trading all over the known world, and leaving their alphabet wherever they went. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z It was in the middle of the seventh century before Christ, that the Milesians made their appearance on the northern shores of the Euxine. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The books of Maccabees, belonging, according to Ewald, to the last half century before Christ, contain significant hints of the future beliefs of Israel. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z Aristarchus, three centuries before Christ, understood and explained the nature of eclipses; but the chief of the ancient authors upon this subject was Hipparchus. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Thus, from all we can learn respecting them, we may say that the Germans, during the first century before Christ, were fully prepared, by their habits, laws, and their moral development, for a higher civilization. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z Six centuries before Christ the world around the Mediterranean was divided into states, whose normal condition was war. Studies in Old Testament History 2011-06-17T02:00:16.420Z The personages described seem to belong to the ninth century before Christ; but it was gone before the poets brought together their work into the famous epics which were the opening of Greek literature. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z This is a representation, a pictorial prophecy of a reality yet to come, before Christ has finished his conquering work in the world of spirits. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Cicero, in the last century before Christ, declared himself a believer in the solidity of the sky. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z And these are those who have part in the first resurrection; and these are they that have died before Christ came, in their ignorance, not having salvation declared unto them. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z It is an Evil that was born before Christ came! The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z They did not hesitate to put these events into the tenth or eleventh century before Christ, but on what kind of evidence we shall presently discuss. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Whether those who had died before Christ's coming are redeemed the bible does not clearly tell us. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Attention is particularly called to the Roman era which commenced with the building of the city of Rome 753 years before Christ. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z Four thousand four hundred years before Christ, Mena, the first King of Egypt of whom we have a record, founded Memphis, having turned aside the course of the Nile and established a temple service there. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Why, this is like stepping back thousands of years to the shores of the Mediterranean and the Greek galleys of the days before Christ.” The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z A democratic character runs through the Church, for the very reason that before Christ everyone is equal, and that everyone has an equal share in his love. Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego 2011-04-17T02:00:02.907Z But, before this period, the Greeks had carried the art of working it into Italy, Spain, and Africa; and the famous mines of Elba, that are still worked, were probably opened 700 years before Christ. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z It was made, as we have seen, in the time of Ptolemy, i.e., some two and a half centuries before Christ. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z The country seems to have been taken possession of by a people from the East about 5,000 years before Christ. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Buddhism, was founded, as is generally believed, some centuries before Christ by a Hindoo prince and sage named Gautama. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Ether lived to witness their entire destruction, and deposited his record where it was afterwards found by a colony of Israelites, who came from Jerusalem six hundred years before Christ, and re-peopled America. A Voice of Warning An introduction to the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-13T03:00:21.363Z Twelve hundred years before Christ, if we receive the testimony of Homer, who, if he be rejected as an historian, must still be admitted as a faithful painter of manners. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The author depicts vividly the desperate conflict between the secular and the ecclesiastical powers during the career of Rameses XIII., in the eleventh century before Christ. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z It was founded by Alexander the Great more than 300 years before Christ. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Here also, if we are to accept the statue as a genuine likeness, we behold the features of the great Egyptian Pharaoh, at whose name, some fourteen centuries before Christ, the Mediterranean nations trembled. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z They were at length destroyed for their wickedness, about six hundred years before Christ. A Voice of Warning An introduction to the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-13T03:00:21.363Z By the abuse and neglect of it they were at length exterminated, in the days of their Prophet Ether, who lived about six hundred years before Christ came in the flesh. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z It probably differed in many ways from the sudden and conscious conversions which began the ministry of certain Greek philosophers, both Cynic and Stoic, in the fourth and third centuries before Christ. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z It was here Solomon built his Temple a thousand years before Christ. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z But our record tells us that C�sar was born one hundred years before Christ. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z Chaldea.—Berosus, a Chaldean priest of Belus, nearly three hundred years before Christ, wrote in Greek a regular history of Chaldea, in nine books. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Nearly one century before Christ the inhabitants of Italy were enabled to judge for themselves of the accuracy of the description. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z Herodotus, a famous Greek historian, born nearly five hundred years before Christ, supposed it to be a branch of the Egyptian Nile. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Hecatæus, the Greek historian and geographer, who lived more than five hundred years before Christ, had not enlarged it much. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Two hundred and forty-seven years before Christ, so the chronicle runs, one of the greatest generals, and one of the most interesting characters of antiquity, was born at Carthage. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z The first tangible literary link that binds us to the old Roman satire is found in the poet Ennius, who flourished about two hundred years before Christ. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z But we know with certainty that when the last great wave spread over Eastern Europe, or Russia, about one thousand years before Christ, the submergence of that continent was complete. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z It was built some nine hundred years before Christ. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King and our God! Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z Xenophon was an Athenian who lived about four hundred and fifty years before Christ. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z Earlier in history, in the first century before Christ and just after and in the fourth century before Christ in Greece, there had been, as we have pointed out, such cycles. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z And it was a woman, Se-ling-she, the wife of the emperor, Hwang-te, who lived nearly three thousand years before Christ, to whom the most ancient Chinese writers assign the discovery of silk. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Some writers place the date as far back as six hundred years before Christ. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ Himself, our King and our God! Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z In times before Christ there were Druids here who enchanted one another with Druid rods made of brass, and metamorphosed one another into stone and lumps of oak. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z He was not the man to put a Romish interpretation on our excellent Formularies, and to place Church and sacraments before Christ. A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield 2010-12-24T03:00:34.583Z The custom is associated with the strewing of palms before Christ on his entry into Jerusalem, but was observed by the British Druids in celebration of the awakening life of the earth at this season. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z About three hundred years before Christ it was destroyed in the wars of Maxentius against Alexander. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ Himself, our King and our God! Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z It threatens to reduce further what Archdeacon Emanuel Youkhana of the Assyrian Church of the East called “a community whose roots were in Iraq even before Christ.” With New Violence, More Christians Are Fleeing Iraq 2010-12-13T01:49:00Z If we are to put any reliance on Geoffrey of Monmouth, a city existed here 1107 years before Christ was born, and 354 even before Rome came into existence. Cathedral Cities of England Grammar and prosody were studied in India with a marvellous accuracy and minuteness several centuries before Christ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Fez was founded more than eight hundred years before Christ. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King and our God! Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z He was summoned to Rome 300 years before Christ, and obtained a home in the island in the Tiber, where for ages he gave his succour in dreams. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius That was more than a thousand years before Christ. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The latter died half a century or more before Christ was born, which reminds us that the "Sons of Malta" were representative men in Rome about two thousand years ago. The Story of Malta In medicine and surgery they had acquired such skill that, several hundred years before Christ the removal of cataract from the eye, a most delicate and difficult surgical operation, was performed among them. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ Himself, our King and our God! Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z This Iranian dualism is proved to have penetrated into the late Jewish eschatology from the beginning of the 1st century before Christ, and did so probably still earlier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" It must give it up because, as a wise man once said many centuries before Christ, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone; there is no such thing as governing mankind. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man "You remember chronology gives Hwang-Si's reign as in the twenty-sixth century before Christ; and of course, that of Si-Ling-Chi, his empress, would be the same." The Haunted Pajamas Homer sang the praises of its hundred gates nearly a thousand years before Christ. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z But the schism is made; let those answer for it before Christ's tribunal who made it. The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries At one assembly there about a century before Christ, a uniform law of distraint for the whole of Ireland was adopted on the motion of Sen, son of Aig�. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" About 300 years before Christ Theophrastus wrote a History of Plants, and described about 500 species used for the treatment of diseases. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The Psalter, as we know it now, had been for some time before Christ the recognised praise-book of Israel. The Christian Use of the Psalter Greek philosophy begins in the sixth century before Christ. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The earliest known form of Greek chair, going back to five or six centuries before Christ, had a back but stood straight up, front and back. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Even before Christ came and showed their spiritual sweep, men had a commandment that went beneath public-conduct and touched the very springs of action. Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments And this nineteenth century man of letters was but echoing the words which fell from the lips of those prophets in the eighth century before Christ. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day A great inundation mentioned in fabulous history, supposed to have taken place in the reign of Ogyges in Attica, whose death is fixed in Blair's Chronological Tables in the year 1764 before Christ. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The territory between the Danube, the Rhine, the Vistula and the northern seas was evidently occupied by them only a few centuries before Christ. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State At the same rate of change, allowing for greater barbarism and greater migrations, they may very well have been something not far from Egyptian or Sanscrit 2000 years before Christ. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science For example, everything before Christ is done in fur rugs and winged helmets for the men, and flannel nightgowns and long hair for the women. Confessions of an Opera Singer Whether you are living in Palestine or in Connecticut, in the tenth century before Christ or in the twentieth century after, are not these the qualities which are sure to be crowned? Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day There is a sense in which St. Augustine was right in speaking of the saints under the old Testament as “Christians before Christ.” The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews The power of the nobility increased continually, until it became unbearable about the year 600 before Christ. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State The laws of this people were collected and put into writing, in the year 694 before Christ. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend The oldest piece of poetry about them that I know of was written about 1,500 years before Christ. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place In the third and second centuries before Christ the glory of the republic lay in its peasantry. The Planters of Colonial Virginia It was founded by Alexander the Great three hundred years before Christ, on account of the great natural advantages of this place as a seaport. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant From the middle of the second century before Christ, we look in vain for the old Republic. Roman Women Did people give Christmas presents before Christ came? With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul And people still call the hottest days of summer "dog days" because 400 years before Christ the Romans noticed that the Dog star rose just before the sun at that time. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place She was born in the fifth century before Christ. Greek Women Its record, they say, has been kept since three hundred years before Christ, or say for two thousand two hundred years. The Pearl of India In the fourth century before Christ, Postumia was charged with a like offence. Roman Women The eighth period began about the Babylonish captivity, about six hundred years before Christ Jesus. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning She pizened herself thirty years before Christ, at the age of thirty-nine years, rather than ride around Rome in a gingham dress as a captive of Augustus. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories Lycurgus, usually reputed to have lived in the ninth century before Christ, was the founder of the legislation which constituted the greatness of Sparta. Greek Women Tradition tells us that Trincomalee was founded by a colony of Malabars, many centuries before Christ, antedating all authentic records relating to the island. The Pearl of India But the most injurious of all the foreign superstitions was the Bacchanalian cult, which was introduced into Rome during the second century before Christ by a lowborn Greek from Etruria. Roman Women The Jews had already, long before Christ's day, dabbled in astrology, and the various forms of magic which became connected with it. . . . Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning When the Romans came, fifty years before Christ, these Britons occupied the land practically from the south coast to the further side of the Firth of Forth. The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 Aristotle, who was at his zenith during the latter part of the fourth century before Christ, is severe in his denunciations of the license of the Spartan women. Greek Women It was designed by a priest named Mahanamo, who compiled the early portion, commencing five centuries and more before Christ, and bringing it down to the year 301 of our era. The Pearl of India During the early part of the second century before Christ, there was enacted around the Forum a scene such as never before had been witnessed or dreamed of in Rome. Roman Women The writer of the book—whoever he may have been—lived in the fifth century before Christ—after the Jews had become acquainted and had mixed with other nations. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning When the Chinese government made laws against intemperance about eleven hundred years before Christ, it can hardly have gone more hastily to work than the members of this movement of the twentieth century after Christ. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 The next name on this immortal list takes us to Locris, in Italy, and down to the fourth century before Christ. Greek Women The oldest of these immense reservoirs is believed to date back some centuries before Christ's appearance upon earth, evincing by their construction a degree of organized thrift and effective energy hardly equaled in our time. The Pearl of India Transmitted for hundreds of years by trained schools of reciters, it was during a synod that occurred in the first quarter of the first century before Christ that, finally, they were written. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal It is true that before Christ died an innumerable company of people were saved, and salvation of course was always by grace. Studies in Prophecy About two centuries before Christ a woman came to the head of affairs in China whose deeds recall the worst of those which have long added infamy to the name of Lucretia Borgia. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Toward the close of the seventh century before Christ, a singular phenomenon presented itself in the history of Greek womanhood. Greek Women With this conclusion we certainly cannot agree, as the chronicles tell us it was raised by King Tissa, at the close of the third century before Christ, over the collar-bone of Buddha. The Pearl of India The rule enunciated by Confucius five hundred years before Christ, the rule that we should not do to others what we would not have them do to us, is sufficient for the existence of society. Concerning Justice When the event took place between the summer solstice and the 1st of January following, the sum of the Olympic year and of the year before Christ is equal to 777. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The masonry of the Great Pyramid, built thirty-four hundred years before Christ, has never yet been surpassed. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Nevertheless, it was a great achievement; and the Shuo Wên is still indispensable to the student of the particular script in vogue a century or two before Christ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" It would almost seem as though the Singhalese of the present day could not belong to the same race as the people who built Anuradhapura before Christ was born. The Pearl of India We visited the cathedral, the monuments of Gutenberg and Schiller, and then the fortress and the remains of a Roman monument erected nine years before Christ.... The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The epoch from which it is reckoned is precisely determined by numerous celestial phenomena recorded by Ptolemy, and corresponds to Wednesday at mid-day, the 26th of February of the year 747 before Christ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" When Mr. Gladstone first went to Rome in 1832, his "transportation" was no swifter and scarcely more comfortable than that of Cæsar in the fifties before Christ. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' In fact, it is only from the 8th century before Christ that any trustworthy record can be safely dated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" By that account no one would be accredited teaching Macedonian history unless he first had witnessed the Hellenic revival in the first millennium before Christ. The Land of Look Behind Three hundred years before Christ, the people of Salonika worshipped the mysterious gods who had their earthly habitation on the island of Thasos. With the French in France and Salonika On account of the difference in the length of the Julian and Babylonian years, the conversion of dates according to the era of Nabonassar into years before Christ is attended with considerable trouble. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The last conversion before Christ perished on the cross ought to forever settle that question. Men of the Bible It swelled up among the populations of Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, about five hundred years before Christ, and rolled on in undiminished magnitude and glory for many centuries. Cyrus the Great Makers of History Moreover, as Juvenal reports, even the murder of husbands by poison was a frequent occurrence in the Rome of his day—the first half of the first century before Christ. Woman under socialism About the tenth century before Christ the Phoenicians, Hebrews, and other allied Semitic races began to use the alphabet. History of Human Society In the Christian era the years are simply distinguished by the cardinal numbers; those before Christ being marked B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Yes, there were preachers before Christ, and long previous to His coming "it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching" to save them that believed. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching Herodotus was born in the year 484 before Christ, which was about fifty years after the death of the Cyrus whose history forms the subject of this volume. Cyrus the Great Makers of History And since, before Christ, this was done in a manner very imperfect, as compared with what was implied in the idea, the value of such a return could not be otherwise than very subordinate. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 Their philosophy culminated in Confucius, who lived about 500 years before Christ, and their religion was founded by Tao Tse, who existed many centuries before. History of Human Society When the event in question happened between the 1st of January and the 1st of the following July, the sum of the Olympic year and of the year before Christ is always equal to 776. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" “The battle of Marathon was fought about twenty miles from Athens between the Greeks and invading Persians nearly five hundred years before Christ.” The Pines of Lory And there are Christian teachers who see in this league another herald of the millennium before Christ comes which they so sedulously preached previously to the war. Why I Preach the Second Coming Even before Christ appeared in the flesh, the announcement here made was all but realized. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 The Ionian Philosophy Turned the Mind Toward Nature.—Greek philosophy began in the seventh century before Christ. History of Human Society If this was not all done before Christ should come, the scriptures would be broken. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 Even two centuries before Christ the wealth possessed by a woman brought her an increase of respect from her husband, and lessened the humiliation of her legal and social position. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements In the second century before Christ, Hero of Alexandria had devised steam fountains and steam turbines, but they remained scientific toys, unless for the miracle-working purposes to which legend says that eastern priests adapted them. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways Greek writers before Christ mention a drink composed of barley, under the name of zythos. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 It tells us how, in the sad, dark heathen world, before Christ came, men thought that though Love might sometimes seem stronger than Death, Death was really stronger than Love. Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children Now the book of Genesis is not an early, but a very late portion of the Jewish scriptures, dating only a few centuries before Christ. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Jacopo’s “Adulteress before Christ” and the “Three in the Fiery Furnace” have Bonifazio’s manner in the architecture and the staging of the figures. The Venetian School of Painting From this it may be seen that while the divining-rod was a familiar instrument 450 years before Christ, it was also then disbelieved in by some. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore As Paul appeals to the faith of Abraham as being a Christianity before Christ, so Mahomet claims the Caaba for the pure worship of Allah in primeval times. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Hence mankind must develop the etheric body to the point where they can function in it consciously before Christ will return. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings Cicero, the great Roman writer, in the century before Christ, uses the very word caritas, which St. Paul borrowed in his fine and famous chapter in the first of Corinthians. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) A powerful portrayal of Ancient Egypt in the eleventh century before Christ is this novel in which Alexander Glovatski has vividly depicted the pitiless struggle between the pharaoh and the priesthood for supremacy. The Dominant Strain So, also, they had a sure prophecy that the kingdom of the Jews should cease before Christ came. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained No one can tell; they come before us four thousand years before Christ, a fully-formed nation, with an elaborately organised public service, and with a civilisation both broad and rich. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Cato, the sturdy old Roman grape-grower who lived nearly two hundred years before Christ, speaks of grafting grapes, although Theophrastus, the Greek philosopher, wrote a hundred years before "the vine cannot be grafted upon itself." Manual of American Grape-Growing Four centuries before Christ, when Socrates was asked on one occasion as to his country, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Perhaps one of the most careful observers that lived before the Christian era commenced, was Theophrastus, who wrote some strikingly correct things about the Cotton plant of India three centuries before Christ! The Story of the Cotton Plant Confucius lived five centuries before Christ, and at his old home in Shantung are the graves alike of his descendants and his ancestors--the oldest family burying ground in the world. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Babylon and Assyria never came so near to Monotheism as did Egypt three millenniums before Christ. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Among the earliest of these was Anaximander, who lived 600 years before Christ. The Meaning of Evolution The first authentic account of heat or steam engines is found in the "Pneumatica" of Hero of Alexandria, who lived in the second century before Christ. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses And from this time I absolve my conscience as to all these things, who have to plead my cause before Christ's tribunal. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I There is scarce a race of savages in our day where the mass of the body politic are as profoundly ignorant as were the great body of the Greek people a thousand years before Christ. Prehistoric Structures of Central America Who Erected Them? The common opinion among Christians is, that the world was made four thousand and four years before Christ, and that all mankind are descended from Adam and Eve. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Having given the two thousand years before Christ to accumulating its moral energies, the Hebrew race acquired momentum enough to continue the civilizing tide through the two thousand years after Christ. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character A collection of records and annals of various princes, commencing more than 2000 years before Christ. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton So you must get up into the pure air of trust and obedience before Christ can make you whole. Days of Heaven Upon Earth Aristotle was born three hundred and eighty-four years before Christ. Prehistoric Structures of Central America Who Erected Them? Jews and Gentiles were afraid of their gods, before Christ came, and so were “children of wrath.” Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors The School of Shammai, who lived before Christ, and the School of Hillel, who lived till eight4 years after His birth, are brought forward as contradictory in their decisions. Hebrew Literature So it is with us, as respects all who went before Christ, we do nothing in reference to them, but do all in reference to Christ, and for His name. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 That there is no purgatory, and that the holy patriarchs were in heaven before Christ's passion. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies Solon, one of the seven wise men of Greece, who died 558 years before Christ, transcribed, from the laws of Moses, the laws prohibiting certain degrees in marriage. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 Dr. Burgh, a learned musical writer states that, of "the time before Christ, music was most cultivated and was most progressive in Greece." Music and Some Highly Musical People It was destroyed by Greek invaders about 1,000 years before Christ, and the stories connected with it form one of the chief subjects of Greek and Latin poets. The History of London The second layer was formed by the Trojans of Homer, and are supposed, by Dr. Schliemann and others to have flourished here about 1400 years before Christ. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life As Florence only dates from three or four hundred years before Christ, it is not considered very ancient in the Old World. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Some interesting anecdotes have been preserved about Apelles, who flourished during the latter half of the fourth century before Christ, and who was considered to be the most famous painter of the ancient world. Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young About five or six hundred years before Christ, almost the whole of the interior of Asia was united in one vast empire. Darius the Great Makers of History The Virgin, in red robes and greenish-blue mantle, with fair hair, kneels before Christ, who places the crown on her head. Luca Signorelli The cross so common upon Egyptian monuments was known to the Buddhists and to the Lama of Thibet 700 years before Christ. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction King Pheidon, of Argos, it is said, introduced silver money into Greece, about the middle of the eighth century before Christ. Principles Of Political Economy This took place about the year 600 before Christ, when laws began first to be written. Romulus Makers of History It was known six hundred years before Christ that when amber is rubbed it acquires the power of attracting light bodies. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Spear-heads are not specially suggestive as to provenance, with the exception of a kind having a cross-arm like the halberd commonly used in China from the seventh century before Christ. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The patriarchs had knowledge of God and walked with God, long before Christ came. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions All of which carries our prophet, six centuries before Christ came, very far into the fellowship of His sufferings. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 The events connected with the destruction of Troy took place, if they ever occurred at all, about the year twelve hundred before Christ. Romulus Makers of History The world was cold and loveless before Christ came. Personal Friendships of Jesus The substitution of images for living beings, however, appears to have been a direct outcome of contact with China, for the device was known there as early as the seventh century before Christ. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Confucius climbed it six centuries before Christ, and sighed, we are told, to find his native State so small. Appearances Being Notes of Travel Because every Bible reader must see that there are many prophecies that must be fulfilled before Christ can come—one of which is the appearance of the two witnesses of the text. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 The facts then, as now generally understood and believed, are, that there was a certain king in some country in Africa, named Agenor, who lived about 1500 years before Christ. Romulus Makers of History In the beginning of the seventh century before Christ, a great improvement in the art of ship-building was made, especially at Corinth. Ancient States and Empires "Yes," said another missionary historian, "and this mountain is referred to twelve separate times in the Chinese classics, and great pilgrimages were made here as long ago as two centuries before Christ." Flash-lights from the Seven Seas For the Law, as it was before Christ, did indeed accuse us; but under Christ it is appeased through the forgiveness of sins, and thereafter it is to be fulfilled through the Spirit. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Then, ages ago, before Christ was crucified, before Moses was born, began the terrible and pathetic attempt of a predamned people to raise their heads and walk 68 erect. The Pools of Silence In this way the time for the building of Rome was determined to be about the year 754 before Christ. Romulus Makers of History The Pelasgi had erected Cyclopean structures fifteen hundred years before Christ. Ancient States and Empires Here for more than twenty centuries before Christ was born men and women were worshiping. Flash-lights from the Seven Seas Some tell us that we must cease to love the sin before Christ will give us help, but this picture sketched by Luke gives a more hopeful message. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition Some would contend that the disciples could not have been regenerated in a true New Testament sense before Pentecost, because the plan of salvation was not finished before Christ's death on the cross. Sanctification Hamlet lived in Jutland, not in Seeland, about four centuries before Christ, and was the son of a pirate chief, instead of a king, who, with his brother, was governor of the province. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark The history of this world begins, according to the chronology of Archbishop Ussher, which is generally received as convenient rather than probable, in the year 4004 before Christ. Ancient States and Empires It was about eight hundred and fifty years before Christ when the young prophet cried out to his master, Elisha, over the pottage of wild gourds, “There is death in the pot!” The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages When it was built, Tartessus, then a very old city, still existed, although it was in ruins long before Christ appeared. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology Anaximander, who lived six centuries before Christ, advocated the assumption. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 They had first begun to make trouble about a hundred years before Christ, when a great army of them was defeated by the Roman general, Marius. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe This was about 1921 years before Christ, according to the received chronology, when the kings of the 15th dynasty reigned. Ancient States and Empires And at length, but not until the age of Cyrus, five centuries and a half before Christ, precisely one century later, the golden daylight of authentic history sprang above the horizon and was finally established. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Brasseur de Bourbourg says: “In the histories written in the Nahuatl language, the oldest certain date is nine hundred and fifty-five years before Christ.” Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology He who could appear clothed with the brightness of the heavenly seraphs before Christ in the wilderness of temptation, comes to men in the most attractive manner, as an angel of light. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan St. Paul expects to meet his converts and present them before Christ. The Gospel of the Hereafter We come now to consider those States which grew into importance about the middle of the eighth century before Christ, at the close of the legendary period. Ancient States and Empires The Iliad arose, as we shall say, a thousand years before Christ, consequently it bisected precisely the Hebrew history which arose two thousand years before the same era. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 In the fourth century before Christ they successfully invaded China. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 He cited them to prophecies revealing the events to take place before Christ should come, and showed that they had no ground to expect Him in their day. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Thus Alexander putting an end to the Persian monarchy, established the third Universal Empire about 330 years before Christ. A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c. Argos and Sicyon are said to be Pelasgian cities, founded as far back as one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six years before Christ. Ancient States and Empires Wrestling and other athletic exercises were introduced in the eighth century before Christ. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality I don't think you particularly loved to sing psalms before Christ touched your heart. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training We have no reason whatever to fancy that mankind served by the wonderful technique twenty centuries after Christ is happier than men were under the primitive conditions of twenty centuries before Christ. Psychology and Social Sanity He at length, fell a victim to his intemperance in the thirty-third year of his age, about 323 years before Christ. A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c. It possessed three hundred tributary cities in Libya, which was but a small part of the great empire which belonged to it in the fourth century before Christ. Ancient States and Empires These conflicts began in the reign of Crœsus, an ambitious king of Lydia in the sixth century before Christ. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality It was planted two hundred and forty-five years before Christ, and its story has been handed down in a continuous series of authentic chronicles. Travels in the Far East I start taking notes: “‘The first civilized people to keep cats were the Egyptians, thirteen centuries before Christ.... It’s like this, cat The six days of creation he takes as so many great epochs; the deluge he places at five thousand years before Christ. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Five hundred years before Christ the most powerful Grecian cities in Sicily were Agrigentum and Gela, on the south side of the island. Ancient States and Empires The earliest European dramas of which we have any record were the plays performed in ancient Greece five hundred years before Christ. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide We know, for instance, that an Egyptian king some 2000 years before Christ possessed a fleet of 400 fighting ships. A History of Sea Power Scholars trace the manufacture of these vases back to very ancient days, and down to its decline, about two centuries before Christ. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture He belonged to another master before Christ bought him for Himself. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John In short, details may be supplied as yet brokenly and sparingly, but the general outline of the condition of Chaldea may be made out as far back as forty centuries before Christ. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria The scene takes place 160 years before Christ, partly at Modin, a city in the mountains of Judah and partly in Jerusalem and its environs. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas About the beginning of the seventh century before Christ the Phœnicians had reached the summit of their power on the seas. A History of Sea Power Theophrastus, who was born nearly four hundred years before Christ, described beer as the wine of barley. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 None was so favoured as Moses in this respect: before Christ came, Moses alone saw God face to face; all prophets after him but heard His voice or saw Him in vision. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) In or about the year before Christ 606, Nineveh, the great city, was destroyed. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria The libretto is a biblical one; the scene is laid in Gaza, in Palestine, 1150 years before Christ. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas According to Herodotus, a Phœnician squadron circumnavigated Africa at the beginning of the seventh century before Christ, completing the voyage in three years. A History of Sea Power The Greeks, until the fourth century before Christ, were characterized by the joy of life. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals But it is one of the most ancient cities in the world, for this or another city stood here twelve hundred years before Christ. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Certainly it was the character of a believer before Christ's coming, that he was one that was looking and waiting for the salvation of Israel, by this Redeemer. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The monastic impulse can be traced back a thousand years before Christ: the idea is neither Christian, Jewish, Philistine nor Buddhist. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The author depicts vividly the desperate conflict between the secular and the ecclesiastical powers during the career of Ramses XIII, in the eleventh century before Christ. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt If Chaldean civilization goes back five or six thousand years before Christ, then the Chaldeans had had ample time, even before Hammurabi, to experience the evils of overpopulation and of sex vice. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Recently I read Aristotle's Essays on Rhetoric and Oratory, and I was pained to see how I had been plagiarized by this man who wrote three hundred years before Christ. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 "Science is classification," said Aristotle to his bad boy pupil, Alexander, three hundred forty years before Christ. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen He was born at Pel´la, a city of Macedon, three hundred and fifty-six years before Christ. The Story of the Greeks The medical literature of the last century before Christ, and from that period until late in the Middle Ages, was an actual treasury of conjuration and other mummeries. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery These sects began in the second half of the sixth century before Christ. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Come Sunday, by God’s mercy—not by mine own good, which God witteth is but evil—I shall stand with the angels before Christ His throne. Mistress Margery Let the fact here be stated that the world is better fed today than it ever has been since Herodotus sharpened his faber and began writing history, four hundred fifty years before Christ. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The Romans got along for centuries without doctors; in fact, doctors were a Grecian importation, not made until about two centuries before Christ. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing These stand naturally for the two great divisions of time, before Christ and after. Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation The Essenes of the last century before Christ were an ascetic community with puritan and rigoristic tenets and practices. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals "Pardon me," I answered, "this is the golden rule of Confucius, written four hundred years or so before Christ was born." As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Some three centuries before Christ, one of the Parthian kings of Persia, of the dynasty of the Arsacid, undertook a persecution of the soothsayers and magicians in his realms. To Whom This May Come 1898 These are the opinions of writers before Christ; whether they were derived from Scripture, it is not now my purpose to discuss. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It has been a common thing to wonder about the salvation and spiritual knowledge and privileges of people who lived before Christ came and died. Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation The Greeks, in the fourth century before Christ, cherished pathos in regard to tyrannicide. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals There is nothing new in these methods, for the principle is as old as Simonides, who lived in the fifth century before Christ, and who devised a system of memorizing by locality. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries This development of parchment occurred in the first half of the second century before Christ. The Booklover and His Books The flesh--the life of nature--is all, good and bad alike, that we had and were before Christ came to us. Parables of the Christ-life The twofold statement is seen to cover the two great periods, before Christ and since. Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation Now that we have the laws of Hammurabi we can see that the Euphrates valley was organized into a peace unit with a very complete and highly finished peace pact twenty-five hundred years before Christ. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals He flourished about 1650 B. C. In Greece, where a copious and magnificent literature had grown up centuries before Christ, Pisistratus collected a library at Athens, and died B. C. 527. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The monotonous and quantitative work of star-cataloguing has been continued from Hipparchus, who began his work more than a century before Christ, work which is continued even to the present day. Human Traits and their Social Significance Yet, if the twentieth century searched through the past for its nearest spiritual kin, it is in the fifth and following centuries before Christ that they would be found. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Beginning with the second century before Christ, merchants began to import Syrian slaves. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism The notion of the pure soul imprisoned in a material sensual body, and stained by the base appetites of the latter, was current amongst the Greeks for five centuries before Christ. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals They begin to appear some twenty years before Christ, under the rule of Augustus and the premiership of Mæcenas. Pagan and Christian Rome About three hundred years before Christ was born, Ptolemy Philadelphus constructed a lock-and-dam canal through which ships made the journey from one of the mouths of the Nile to the site of modern Suez. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel If Nietzsche was right in calling Plato a Christian before Christ, I do not therefore regard him as an unhellenic Greek. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield During the second century before Christ the traders of that nation had established settlements along the coast of Asia Minor, on the Piraeus, and in the Archipelago. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Hence it places man before Christ, and bids him yield to the sway of a new transforming power. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Greece had her slaves before tradition blended into history, though, four centuries before Christ, Alcidamas proclaimed: "God has sent forth all men free: Nature has made no man slave." Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Beyond in the suburbs lies the public park owned by Academus in the fifth century before Christ. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel The Britons appear to have emigrated from Gaul and established themselves among the other Celtic tribes already settled in the island, about the third century before Christ. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance So far as individual experience of these is concerned, there is little discernable difference between two thousand years before Christ and two thousand years afterward. Christianity and Progress Yes, indeed! pain, because in the Presence of Christ; pain in remembering, and in the consciousness, new to the soul, of its utter unworthiness before Christ. The Life of the Waiting Soul in the Intermediate State Euclid, a celebrated mathematician, who was born in Alexandria, in Egypt, about two hundred and eighty years before Christ. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School I afterwards learned that these pillars are the remains of a vast monastery for Buddhist priests, built by King Dutugaimunu one hundred and sixty years before Christ. My First Voyage to Southern Seas The phrase, whether used proverbially before Christ’s time or not, is in nature and structure proverbial. The Parables of Our Lord Among these, Serapion of Alexandria, an Empiric who lived in the third century before Christ, is noteworthy for having first used sulphur in the treatment of skin diseases, and Heraclides wrote on strangulated hernia. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Everything before Christ I should be glad to see separated, or you may take any other date that you like. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, 14. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. These vases and other ancient objects confirm what is said about these people by Herodotus, a Greek historian who lived in the fourth century before Christ. The Story of Russia In Benares, moreover, Buddha preached 500 years before Christ, and at the present day he has more than 400 million followers; so to Buddhists also Benares is a holy place. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The practice of astrology came from the Chaldeans, and was introduced into Greece in the third century before Christ. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine "Christian and Pagan Art" I mean, before Christ and after Christ. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The Druids were priests of the Celts centuries before Christ came. The Book of Hallowe'en These ruins claim a date of five hundred years before Christ. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Two thousand years before Christ the Chinese had written characters. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People One of these was an anatomist in the third century before Christ, and a contemporary, according to Galen, of Herophilus and Erasistratus. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Animal power and rude tools were gradually brought into use, and about 1000 years before Christ "a plow with a beam, share and handles" is mentioned. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Torfæus, learned and cautious, some centuries later, assigns by calculation a date for it: Odin, he says, came into Europe about the Year 70 before Christ. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History He will be the partner of the martyrs, and, supported by the treasure of these virtues, shall appear with equal confidence before Christ and his angels. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The Chinese were acquainted with the magnetic needle 1100 years before Christ, and made compasses, and they knew of gunpowder long before Europeans. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People It was probably founded in the eighth century before Christ. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 All my predecessors in the church of God, before Christ, had the privilege of bringing their children into the bonds of the covenant with themselves. Bertha and Her Baptism Nothing more suitable or appropriate can be said concerning musical taste and cultivation than what was said by Aristotle 300 years before Christ. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present He shall then be the companion of the martyrs, and shall appear with the same confidence before Christ and his angels. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The Hindu Savior, Krishna, was born of a virgin 600 years before Christ. The Necessity of Atheism It was taken during the Carthaginian wars, and in a great measure destroyed by Hannibal the son of Giscon, four hundred and nine years before Christ. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Mr. M. It originated with a man by the name of Abraham, I believe, sir, two or three thousand years before Christ. Bertha and Her Baptism In the same sense as Christian doctrine was prepared and prophesied by the religions and the philosophies before Christ, in the same sense Christian worship was prepared and prophesied as well. The Agony of the Church (1917) Six hundred years before Christ, some old Greek discovered electricity by rubbing a piece of amber, and unable to grasp the mystery, he called it soul. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales In Greece, 500 years before Christ, Hippocrates developed scientific thought and laid the foundations of medical science upon observation, experience, and reason. The Necessity of Atheism But before Christ was born the old law was still in force. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition The great war which is the subject of this Epic is believed to have been fought in the thirteenth or fourteenth century before Christ. Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Mr. Darwin makes great capital out of pigeons, enumerating all the varieties owned by fanciers, and showing how the Indian emperors bred them a thousand years before Christ. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity I have no doubt a Roman boy two hundred years before Christ, or an Athenian boy four hundred years before Christ, lived quite as well as I did, if not better. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 About the year 480 before Christ, a fierce enemy landed on the coast of Sicily with two thousand gallies: this was the warlike Carthaginian, whose altars smoked with the sacrifice of human victims. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 But before Christ's Passion men were not bound to be baptized: for Circumcision was still in force, which was supplanted by Baptism. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition One has only to suppose that Antichrist came shortly before Christ; and Antichrist might very well be Cæsar. George Bernard Shaw At the two periods, 2455 and 300 years before Christ, and now, the entrances of the sun at the Equinoxes and Solstices into the signs, were and are as follows:— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry In fact as far back as two thousand years before Christ the Chinese were famous potters, making earthenware of such fine quality that it was difficult to tell whether it was pottery or porcelain. The Story of Porcelain He died four hundred and thirty-five years before Christ; from that time to this, at irregular intervals, it has vomited forth its destructive lavas. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Therefore it seems that Baptism was not instituted before Christ's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Great as the ideas of the people were before Christ appeared, they were infinitely magnified during the lapse of the thirty years between his death and the composition of the Gospels. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Four thousand six hundred and ten years before Christ, the sun entered Gemini at the Vernal Equinox. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The common Flax plant, from which we get our Linseed, is of great antiquity, dating from the twenty-third century before Christ, and having been cultivated in all countries down to the present time. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure We sit before Christ, and we become the camera, and his image is printed on our soul. Making the Most of Life Objection 1: It seems that there should have been no sacraments after sin, before Christ. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition In this law-abiding country the peasantry conspicuously follow the Confucian maxim taught in China four hundred years before Christ, "Do not unto others what you would not have others do unto you." An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma He was imprisoned before Christ began to preach. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Zeuxis, a famous Sicilian painter four hundred years before Christ, depicted currants and grapes with such fidelity that birds came and tried to peck them out from his canvas. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure This is true, with the notable exceptions of the Wisdom of Solomon and the Second Maccabees, neither of which documents can be dated earlier than a hundred and twenty years before Christ. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Therefore it was necessary that some sacraments should be instituted before Christ. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition This wise man, in the Sixth Century before Christ, taught that the earth was round, and that certain stars were also worlds. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists One can not go far in traversing it without noticing the traces still evident enough of the fire that obviously destroyed it many hundred, if not several thousand, years before Christ. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two Traversing Asia Minor, they entered Europe by way of Constantinople, and we follow them through Greece to Rome, where already several centuries before Christ we find them bound together in corporations called Collegia. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry He established his system in the valley of the Ganges near the middle of the sixth century before Christ. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Consequently, there is no reason against the existence of sacraments before Christ's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aristotle, three hundred years before Christ, had suggested that, by cross-fertilization and change of environment, new species had been and were being evoked. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists It was toward the middle of the century before Christ that Caesar advanced to the frontier of what may be called Germany. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View The date is, say, fourteen hundred years before Christ. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers The expectation that the very same body would be restored was known to the Jews a century or two before Christ. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But by an imperfect resurrection, some others have risen before Christ, so as to be a kind of figure of His Resurrection. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition The solemn dedication of the palace took place on January 14th, of the year 26 before Christ. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Plato, a philosopher with the soul of a poet, died in the year 347 before Christ. Ideal Commonwealths Some historians have fixed the date about ten thousand years before Christ—let it go at that. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers He was born about twenty years before Christ, and survived him about thirty years. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Consequently, before Christ's Passion no one could enter the kingdom of heaven by obtaining everlasting beatitude, which consists in the full enjoyment of God. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition As early as two thousand years before Christ Yule-tide was celebrated by the Aryans. Yule-Tide in Many Lands In the odes of Pindar, in the sixth century before Christ, we find records of eruptions. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography There is a reasonably well-authenticated history of China that runs back twenty-five hundred years before Christ, while our history merges into mist seven hundred fifty years before the Christian era. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers In the fourth century before Christ, Alexander of Macedon overran the Persian empire. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Therefore some others came to the resurrection of the body before Christ. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition There was not one moral standard before Christ and another after. Our Day In the Light of Prophecy It arose from the idea of the sacrifice, which the Aryans brought to India with them at least 1500 years before Christ. Introduction to Non-Violence This is reverent, but rather philosophical than evangelical, and reminds us of the Hymn of Aratus, more than two centuries before Christ was born. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Andocides also, a Greek orator who lived about four hundred years before Christ, was somewhat similarly accused, and only escaped by a strenuous defence of himself in an oration, still extant, entitled "Concerning the Mysteries." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But these words were spoken of God even before Christ's Incarnation. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition He lived in the third century before Christ. Pascal's Pensées There were countless numbers of such books, devout and mystic, all inscribed in Pali; they included the "Three Baskets of the Law," also the Laws of Manu, which dated from the fifth century before Christ. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma During this second century before Christ, therefore, the state religion was apparently unchanged so far as the outward form was concerned. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome It is comparatively certain that, if he was the author of the work attributed to him, he must have flourished as early as the sixth century before Christ. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Therefore, this sacrament should not have been instituted before Christ's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Then I was put into Little Ease again, protesting very innocent blood to be demanded against the judge before Christ.' English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 He lived between six and seven centuries before Christ. The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons It is to the story of the earlier of these two centuries, the second before Christ, that we now turn. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome During the twelfth and eleventh centuries before Christ there was an unusually good opportunity for nomads to settle in Palestine. Hebrew Life and Times Therefore, this sacrament was not suitably instituted before Christ's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Wayland could see the reflection of the stars in the ice at night, and count the layers of the century's snow-fall that harked back, each layer a year's fall, to the eras before Christ. The Freebooters of the Wilderness Hence, before Christ's Passion, while Christ was preaching and working miracles, the Law and the Gospel were concurrent, since the mystery of Christ had already begun, but was not as yet consummated. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition In this the third century before Christ deities begin again to be introduced, and it is to this century that we now turn. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome For example, there was the gentle Hillel, who lived about a century before Christ and who taught the spirit of the Golden Rule, although in a form not so perfect as that of Jesus. Hebrew Life and Times |
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