...They are all connected with Christianity by some form of the doctrine of incarnation. It was towards the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, that Gnosticism first attained any real importance as an element in ecclesiastical history. The Gnostic...

...conquered northwestern India as far as Benares. The best known among them was King Kanishka, who lived at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Christian era. He was a contemporary of the great Buddhist philosopher and saint Ashvaghosha,...

...up his teachings. So the figure which he draws may stand beside that of the Christian evangelist at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. His outward marks are not dissimilar. He carries nothing but cloak, wallet, and staff. When he arrives...

...partly wholly fabulous, and therefore little fitted to justify as, simply on their account, in assigning the end of the first or the beginning of the second century as the close of the Apostolic Age. We are thus brought back again to the year of Paul's death as indicating...

...by some preserved fragments and by references to it in history. It is a Greek manuscript, assigned to the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. On the back of one of the rolls a farm-overseer had kept his accounts. In these times of archaeological...

...neglected forms of the letters, the next monument in question could hardly claim a place between those of the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. But it is a fragment only, and may have been ornamented, in its upper now missing part, by a bas-relief....

...was out of the question, and Ebionitism was henceforward a withered branch. So matters went on until the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, when new convulsions shook the 1 Haer. xxx. 2. 2 Barn. ii. 9 ; Ер. ad Diog. iii. iv. : Praed. Petri...

...was out of the question, and Ebionitism was henceforward a withered branch. So matters went on until the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, when new convulsions shook the 1 Haer. xxx. 2. a Barn. ii. 9 ; Ep. ad Dioff. iii. iv. : Praed. Petri...

...forms of schools, and I need not therefore apologise for choosing a Greek author, who wrote as late as the end of the first or the beginning of the second century AD Perhaps more explanation is needed why I should have selected a Greek account of a period of Roman...

...Gauls and subsequently to their own veterans on the payment of a tenth of the produce (decZma). Towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, these lands were incorporated in the Roman empire. Agrlcola, Cn. Julius, bora June 13th,...