He had other opponents than the Judaizers, and had to defend his doctrine against perversion by Grecizing mystics as well as against opposition by Pharisaic legalists.
His chief opponents were the scribes, the devotees and exponents of a sacred scripture, the Law.
Luke and Ignatius represent the attitude of the orthodox, Ignatius' opponents that of those who denied that Jesus was "in the flesh after his resurrection.
There were, in fact, opponents of Montanism at Rome, who under the lead of Gaius had denied the authenticity of all the writings attributed to John, including the Gospel itself.
But theiropponents contrived to drop a spoonful of tar in Poland's pot of honey by ordering a plebiscite to take place in eastern Galicia within ten or fifteen years.
The electors, however, sent his politicalopponents to the Senate, whereupon the President organized his historic visit to Europe.
If the terms of this document should prove acceptable the American envoys were empowered to promise that an official invitation to a new peace conference would be sent to them as well as to their opponents by April 15th.
I have noticed this particularly in the cases of colleagues who were previously more or less violent opponents of psychoanalysis, owing to their well-known prejudices and misunderstandings.
These opponentsdeduced absurd and ridiculous consequences from the theory of the One.
Zeno's Dialectic--he refuted the opponents of Parmenides, by showing that their assumptions led to contradictions and absurdities 93 Consequences of their assumption of Entia Plura Discontinua.
Side-note: Mistake of supposing Zeno's reductiones ad absurdum of an opponentsdoctrines to be generalisations of data gathered from experience.
It is these men who are depicted by orthodox opponents as committing lawless acts, and justifying themselves by precedents drawn from the proceedings or Zeus.
The hypothesis was one relating to the real, absolute, or ultra-phenomenal, which Parmenides maintained to be Ens Unum Continuum, while his opponents affirmed it to be essentially multiple and discontinuous.
Of these many are evident inventions; some proceeding from opponents and probably coloured or exaggerated, others hardly authenticated at all.
This is the deficiency admitted by himself in the Platonic Apology--lamented by friends like Kleitophon--arraigned by opponents like Hippias and Thrasymachus.
I understand, indeed I know, that there are a few opponents of disunion remaining In South Carolina; but, although they are wealthy people and of good position, it is pretty certain that they have not an atom of political influence.
Opponents try to scare this man against Socialism by the fear of losing his interest.
Therefore itsopponents will be wise not to sneer at Socialism, but to study it and to try to understand it.
His opponents say that he burns the midnight lamp.
It would have been an event, had not your opponents answered it in the only way they were capable of answering it.
His opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness, nor debauchery, nor job, nor peculation, nor rapacity, nor personal aims of any kind.
They were fine fellows, armed with spears and bows and arrows, as well as with carbines, while they carried in their belts the usual scalping-knives and tomahawks, so that they were likely to prove formidable opponents to our foes.
We had been proceeding towards a height which commanded a view in the direction our late opponents were supposed to have taken, and we were thankful to see them moving off, forming a more numerous body than we had at first supposed.
In this way the best of them have unquestionably much purifying and enchanting power; and they are helpful opponents to sinful passion and weakness of every kind.
As, however, it is sometimes alleged by the opponents of my principles, that I have never done anything, it is proper that the reader should know exactly the amount of work for which I am answerable in these illustrations.
Therefore, they and the circle of their connections are opponents of the Social Democrats.
He there publicly challenged all his opponentsto convict him of error if they could, and proved that he was valiant for the truth as long as he was free.
He offered, with characteristic ardor, to be bound to die at the stake if he did not make good his views, provided his eight opponents would do the same.
With this distinction we may connect the arguments between the Stoics and their opponents as to what is now called the Freedom of the Will.
Protagoras hardly needed such an admonition to keep to what is the key-note and characteristic peculiarity of his own theory; since it is only by suppressing this peculiarity that his opponents make the theory seem absurd.
The opponents of Epikurus derided this auxiliary hypothesis, affirming that he invented the individual deflection of each atom without assigning any cause, and only because he was perplexed by the mystery of man's freewill.
Aristotle contends that the opponents ought to grant thus much, under penalty of being excluded from discussion as incapables or mere plants.
The opponentsof the Stoics contended that this was an alteration in words rather than in substance.
Both these two classes of opponents agreed in saying, that there were no truths immediate and indemonstrable; and it is upon this point that Aristotle here takes issue with them, seeking to prove that there are and must be such truths.
This we may believe not merely from the foregoing reasonings, but also from the opinion of opponents who suppose the Cosmos to be generated.
I do not imagine that the opponents themselves would have felt obliged to grant as much as he here demands.
In defending his position regarding this question, Aristotle denies (what he represents his opponents as maintaining) that all events happen by necessity.
He was uncompromising, whether dealing with friends or enemies, and his temper was such that he regarded his opponents as his personal enemies.
McDonough, and Mr. Charles Sigourney; and there were added to them representatives of the other opponents of the old establishment, among them the Rev.
The whole matter was curiously complicated with discussions as to political and financial matters, the many questions between the recently disestablished order and its opponents not having been fully settled as yet.
Then there was Procopius, and Maximus, and Eugenius, who, when they were in power, struck their opponentswith terror.
Leo, by means of the Greek fire, destroyed the fleet of the insurgent Cyclades, and punished with the utmost severity his opponents in the capital.
Neither the greatest nor the worst of her opponents had subdued that witness, or rendered it faltering or indistinct.
Our opponents regard faith as an easy thing, but I know from personal experience how hard it is to believe.
When our opponents hear us repeat this statement of Paul, they make it appear as if we taught that governments should not be honored, as if we favored rebellion against the constituted authorities, as if we condemned all laws.
If we only teach works, as our opponents do, we shall lose the faith.
When it comes to life we are ready to do, to suffer, to forgive anything our opponentsdemand as long as faith and doctrine remain pure and uncorrupt.
At any rate, our opponents cannot accuse us of adultery, murder, theft, and such crimes.
Objections to the Doctrine of Faith Disproved Here we shall take the time to enter upon the objections which our opponents raise against the doctrine of faith.
By this conference he hoped to establish the identity of his Gospel with that of the other apostles, to stop the talk of his opponents that he had been running around in vain.
Our opponents claim that they also possess this liberty.
As the opponentsof Paul, so our own adversaries [Luther's, the enemies of the Reformation] contend that the traditions of the Fathers dare not be neglected without loss of salvation.
In their folly ouropponents rush into the Scriptures, pick out a sentence here and a sentence there about the Law and imagine they know all about it.
Why do our opponents not profess the same truth in spiritual matters?
This shows that our conceptions are neither silly nor superstitious, as is maintained by some opponents of Manu.
This agitation was begun in Bombay, by a few reformers, and opponents of Brahmans.
It would not be a large volume, and he offered to let his Christian Science opponents share it with him, stating their side of the case.
It amused him highly to do this, to make the rule advantage his own play, and to pretend a deep indignation when his opponents disqualified his rulings and rode him down.
With Crawford, he was on better terms; but that candidate was clearly in the minority, his health was gravely impaired, and his following was made up largely of the opponents of the policies which Clay represented.
Against the proposal, hisopponents argued inexpediency rather than our treaties with Great Britain.
The state Senate was already controlled by the opponents of national power, led by Judge Smith; and the next year the Lower House also fell under their dominance.
Indian lands by the state, and thus forced the followers of Crawford in Georgia to unite with their former opponents in South Carolina.
He would have been said by his opponents to have confused God with the history of philosophy, and to have been incapable of distinguishing ideas from facts.
Their adversaries defend themselves warily from an invisible world, and reduce the substances of their opponents to the minutest fractions, until they are lost in generation and flux.
Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
His chiefopponents are, first, Eristics or Megarians; secondly, the Materialists.
But Wales now began to claim his attention, and the opponents of a wise and just policy in Ireland succeeded in their policy of procrastination.
It was so much the king’s habit to have his opponents “face to face,” that it seems most probable that the archbishop waited on him there at his own desire.
Even when vehemently thwarted and opposed, as by archbishop Winchelsey and earls Bigod and Bohun, his first thought generally was to send for his opponents to come to him, for that “the king wished to have a private colloquium with them.
He had carried on a vigorous contest with the opponents of the Constitution in that State; he had encountered obloquy and misrepresentation and rancor,--perhaps he had provoked them.
Reply of, to opponents of Constitution in New York, 572.
It was supposed that, if this could be effected, the opponents of the Constitution in New York would be able to make some overture to the opposition in Virginia, for the same course of action in both States.
The same contest, therefore, between the friends and opponents of a national system was not obliged to be renewed upon this department.
Contest of, withopponents of Constitution in New York, 571.
In the heats of subsequent political conflicts he has been often charged by his opponents with a general hostility to the Constitution.
A good deal was said, ad captandum, by the opponents of the Constitution, on these points, but it does not appear to have been said with much effect.
Navigation of, a topic of opponents of Constitution in Virginia convention, II.
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