Harnack should have come round to the view, almost universally prevalent in England, that St Luke himself was the final editor and author of both the Third Gospel and the Acts.
Certainly, whoever asks questions with a view to prove Jesus, is spoken of vituperatingly in the gospels; and it does appear to me that the prevalent Christian belief is a true echo of Jesus's own feeling.
Why had I not long ago seen that my conclusions ought to have been different from those of prevalent orthodoxy?
But it was clear to me, that whatever that meant, I could not combine it with the idea of degeneracy, nor could I find a proof of it in the fact of prevalent wickedness.
Olinthus Gregory had done,) but avow that from the change in speculative philosophy it was simply impossible for any modern to hold the views prevalent in the third and fourth centuries.
In the matter of the Sabbath and of the Mosaic Law, of Infant Baptism, of Episcopacy, of the doctrine of the Lord's return, I had successively found the prevalent Protestantism to be unapostolic.
The view here exhibited is essentially that of Paley, and was in my day the prevalent one at Oxford.
Smallpox was reported to be very prevalent in Norwich.
It is to be hoped that his example will operate towards the discontinuance of the practice, which, perhaps, is nowhere so prevalent as in this county.
Nearly 50 new houses were opened for the sale of beer, and drunkenness, rioting, and fighting were prevalent in many of the streets.
Attention was directed to the system then becoming more prevalent than ever, of driving dogs in trucks or small carts along the public roads.
His instances of beliefs that the high gods are dead notoriously contradict the prevalent belief that they are deathless.
Sometimes the background would be white, leaded perhaps in quarries; but in any case the prevalent scheme of design was to frame up pictures, more or less in colour, in architectural canopy work of white and stain.
The new boys were necessarily young, and in the present united state of the house, it was tolerably certain that they would catch the prevalent spirit, and be quickly assimilated to the condition of the others.
But these were not employed solely as ornaments, but largely as the result of a fanciful idea, still prevalent in certain quarters, of the value of such objects against diseases of the eye.
In distinction to the tendency hitherto prevalent which bids the metal mounting of jewellery to be rendered almost invisible, the working of gold and silver has once again become a matter of some moment.
The duration of eachprevalent fashion tended to become shorter and shorter, and the new mode was usually an absolute contrast to the preceding one.
It is manifest, from a survey of the eastern shore of this lake, that the prevalent winds are from the west and northwest, for they have cast up vast sand dunes along the coast, which give it an arid appearance.
Numerous and prevalent as these forms are, they do not, however, preclude the use of adjectives in their simple forms.
Indeed, when I consider the dissatisfaction universally prevalent caused by the badness of their money, I should not be surprised if such an event would take place as soon as General, Clinton opens the campaign.
It is a prevalent idea among us middling people, that a good government must be a moderate one; and we are exceedingly apt to judge of the spirit of the government from the spirit of our rulers.
She was aloof from the prevalent delusion devil-ward.
Opposition to prevalent beliefs, therefore, may not be a new feature in the family history.
Could firm, true men, holding then prevalent beliefs, have done less?
Man's ignorance of spiritual agents and forces in your day, together with the prevalent hallucination devil-ward, made you a humble and pitiable martyr to simple truth-telling.
Such was the great poet's "Archangel ruined;" nearly such was the prevalent perception of him by the general mind of Christendom.
It was reconstructed soon afterwards and shows to-day the first period of Gothic architecture that became prevalent in Normandy.
I fearlessly assert that there is a prevalent looseness in his chronology, for which I defy his most slavish admirers to prove that the correctness of his grammar is at all of a quality to compensate.
This last proposition would have reduced the ratio to a fraction over 11:1--something higher than the ratio prevalent in France.
South-east winds are especially prevalent here, particularly in summer, when they frequently cause serious damage; hence all the upper branches of the trees incline to the north-west.
Footnote 24: The vine disease seems, however, to have been already prevalent in Madeira at a former period.
The frequent fogs prevalent in Madeira during the month of June, render it indispensable to start early in the morning, if the traveller wishes to enjoy the beauties of the scenery.
A belief is prevalent among the people that this singular class of men, greatly resembling our own gipsies, possess the art of depriving a poisonous serpent of its venom, and rendering it innocuous.
Another especially loathsome habit of the Cingalese is the chewing the betel-nut, a custom so universally prevalent among all Indian races, that not merely the men and women, but the very children exhibit an extraordinary predilection for it.
It is extremely beautiful and fertile, but very little cultivated, and admirably suited for a coal depot, and a place for ships obtaining stores, particularly when epidemics are prevalent in Rio de Janeiro.
Another fault prevalent among girls is the habit of hyperbole.
After him, and up to the time of Willis, the prevalent idea seems to have been that it was the seat of memory; while Bourillon considered it the seat of instinct and intelligence.
Koch showed in New Guinea that in most places infection was very prevalent in native children, so much so that in some villages 100 per cent.
Who can say that no originality was required to develop such a system, so opposed at vital points to the prevalent Buddhism of the day?
We shall make our way most easily into this difficult discussion by considering some prevalent misconceptions and defective arguments.
There are also indications that the ideal military hero is not, for all the people, the self-assertive type that I have described above, though this is doubtless the prevalent one.
All primitive knowledge was dominated by intuitions, and was as absurd as many still prevalent Oriental conceptions of nature.
Now the long prevalent feudal social order has left its stamp on the Japanese language no less than on every other feature of Japanese civilization.
Their revolt from "religion" did not spring from an irreligious motive, but from a deeper religious insight than wasprevalent among Buddhist believers.
In this country the prevalent sanctity of marriage can be attributed chiefly to the fact that among the rank and file, husbands and wives have generally married each other for love.
There is usually one prevalent well-founded recollection based upon a temperamental peculiarity, and the impression was made, that the former citizen was fortunate to leave that one item in the memory of the people.
A colored porter, on a Pullman car, said he had a good position until the comic papers took up the prevalent method of collecting tips and made it ridiculous.
A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics.
Again, the more concentrated the population, the more prevalent the use of checks.
In the first place, the more highly developed the business of a community, the more prevalent the use of checks.
From one point of view, undoubtedly, the closing of the stock and cotton exchanges tended still further to deepen the attitude of dissatisfaction with these institutions that had been prevalent for some years among the American public.
How popular and prevalent and widespread are those religions which we are accustomed to regard as most corrupt!
Everywhere it is the frivolous, the corrupt, the false, which seem to be most prevalent and most popular.
And it then simply becomes a question whether it is better to have a prevalent corrupted system of religion containing many important truths, or a system of downright paganism with few truths at all.
Thus before Mohammed appeared polytheism was the prevalent religion of Arabia,--a degradation even from the ancient Sabaean faith.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prevalent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
