 | Alden Bradford - 1813 - 544 pages
...understanding of all things from the very first,)f to write unto thee in order, most ex4 cellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. 5 IN the days of Herod the king of Judea, there was a priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia... | |
 | William White - 1813 - 532 pages
...doubtless in him every person to whom the work of that evangelist should come, of its being designed — " That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed."* St. John also thus tells us the end of the writing of his gospel— u That ye might believe that Jesus... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 644 pages
...understanding of all things, from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus: that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed." When St. Luke says, that many had undertaken to write histories of our Saviour, he cannot mean Matthew... | |
 | Samuel Horsley (bp. of St. Asaph.) - 1816 - 394 pages
...understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee, in order, most excelle«t Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed." The last verse might be more literally rendered — " That thou mighest know the exact truth of those... | |
 | William Paley - 1818 - 796 pages
...understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed" This short introduction testifies, that the substance of the history, which the evangelist was about... | |
 | William Chillingworth - 1820 - 566 pages
...perfect understanding of things from the first, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed." Add to this place the entrance to his history of the Acts of the Apostles : " The former treatise have... | |
 | John Locke - 1820 - 142 pages
...understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto theein order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. You may observe in these words a confirmation of what I have been saying, and a full proof that St.... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1820 - 660 pages
...understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed." The above extract forms a sufficient proof that ft was written at a distant period from the tune in... | |
 | James Clarke Franks - 1821 - 570 pages
...understanding of all things from the very Jirst, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. WE, as Christians, have been instructed in momentous truths; even in all that was taught, promised,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 556 pages
...understanding of all things from the very fast, to write unto thee, in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed." St. Luke also being the author of the Acts of the Apostles, we have, for the writers of these five... | |
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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. 
