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In fine, it is entirely a stranger to human modes of living. It is entirely absorbed in an insatiable love of heavenly things. Those who follow this course of life, have only their bodies upon earth, their whole souls are in heaven, and they already dwell among pure and celestial intelligences, and they despise the manner of life of other men” Demonstrat. Evang. vol. ii. p.29.

Deor. i. 67; de Fat. 2; Dialog. de Orat. 31, 32. Lucullus, 6, 18; de Orat. ii. 38, iii. 18. Quint, Inst. xii. 2. Numen. apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. xiv. 6 and 8.

Ezekiel Todd, her dry, tight-fisted, lean father, had named her, bawling it out so loud that the more suitable, certainly the more euphonious, "Evangeline," proffered in a timid whisper by her faded and somewhat romantic mother, was completely smothered. "I baptize thee, Evang " began the minister, when Ezekiel's voice rose clear: "Abijah, I tell ye, Parson A-b-i-j-a-h Abijah!" And Abijah it was.

Apion. ii. Section 36; Cic. De Fin. v. 25; Clem. Alex. Strom, 1, xxii. 150, xxv. v. 14; Euseb.; Prof. Evang. x. 4, ix. 5, &c.; Lactant. Inst. There is something very touching in this fact; but, if there be something very touching, there is also something very encouraging.

See a striking passage from Cicero's Academics, preserved by Augustine, contra Acad. iii. 7, and Lucullus, 18. De Nat. Deor. passim; de Div. ii. 72. "Quorum controversiam solebat tanquam honorarius arbiter judicare Carneades." Tusc. Quæst. v. 41. De Fin. ii. 1; de Orat. i. 18; Lucullus, 3; Tusc. Quæst. v. 11; Numen. apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. xiv. 6, etc. Lactantius, Inst. iii. 4. De Nat.

Evang. in loc., to the ancient fathers, and to the most respectable of the modern Christian. commentators, who all allow and show, that the words of Isaiah are not applicable to the birth of Jesus in their literal sense, but only in a mystical, or figurative, or allegorical sense. Again, Matthew gives us another prophecy, which he says was fulfilled.

These were all dreadful prodigies which filled the people with inexpressible astonishment, and the whole Roman empire with an extreme perplexity; and whatever unhappy event followed, repentance was sure to be either caused or predicted by them. Praep. Evang. l. 6. c. 9. Legi in tabulis coeli quaecunque contingent vobis et Feliis vestris.

Nine years later the Virginia Synod was organized; and the Southwest Virginia Synod, September 20, 1841. Minutes of 1805. In the first decade of the nineteenth century a Special Conference was organized in Virginia: "Specialkonferenz der Evang.-Luth. Streit, W. Carpenter, Paul Henkel, J. Foltz, A. Spintler.

H. Beck, Die Erbauungslit. der evang. Kirche Deutschlands, 1883. On the fourteen Defenders see articles in Wetzer und Welte and the Catholic Encyclopaedia, and especially the article Nothelfer, by Zöckler, in PRE3, where also see further literature. A. T. W. Steinhaeuser Allentown, PA.

De Nat. Deor. i. 25, Augustin, contra Acad. iii. 17. Numen. apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. xiv. 6. De Fin. ii. 13, v. 7; Lucullus, 42; Tusc. Quæst. v. 29. Lucullus, 45. Lucullus, 21, 24; for an elevated moral precept of his, see de Fin. ii. 18. "Quanquam Philo, magnus vir, negaret in libris duas Academias esse erroremque eorum qui ita putârunt coarguit." Acad. Quæst. i. 4.