Word: galilean
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...deity of Christ, Mr. Bryan's central argument is that if Christ was not divine He was an imposter, and that it is unlikely a Galilean peasant could perpetrate "so stupendous a fraud for nearly 20 centuries on so large a fraction of the most intelligent of the world's population...
...course on "The Life of Christ" will cover, during the half year, the third period of the Galilean ministry, the events of the Passion Week in Jerusalem, the Resurrection, the appearance of the Lord to the disciples and Hias ascension...
...these new days of the twentieth century men are too apt, like the old Galilean fishermen, to live in the shallows of life. There is a tendency to superficiality in literature, in men's ideas of life and its meaning and in their conception of religion. As the words Jesus rang out over the blue waters of Galile, so they echo down through the ages to men today--"launch out into the deep!" For men to taste the fullness of life and its opportunities, to know the serene and awful depths of the ocean of the spirit of God this...
...Simon Peter:" -- About these two words are twined the suggestive memories of a wonderful life, a life full of stress and storm and change but firm and victorious in the end. There comes before one the picture of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of the lake as a man in whom no sure confidence could be placed. Again there rises before one the scene on that day when Christ first met the humble fisherman and gave to the weak Simon the name of Peter,--that is to say at last the old fickleness...