 | John Kitto - Religion - 1855 - 532 pages
...in order that he might not be seen, the luminaries turned back, and day grew dark, because they slew God, who was naked upon the tree. It was not the body of our Lord which the luminaries darkened when they set, but the eyes of men. For the earth trembled because the... | |
 | Sir James Donaldson - Apostolic Fathers - 1866 - 350 pages
...tongue ; bitter was Judas, to whom thou gavest hire ; bitter," &c. Again : " The lights were hurried away, and the day became dark because they were slaying God, who was naked upon the tree." The whole style of this fragment is certainly not like anything we have of writings contemporary with... | |
 | Lactantius - Theology - 1871 - 490 pages
...seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened, because they slew God, who hung naked on the tree. It was not the body of our Lord that the luminaries covered with darkness when they set,2 but the eyes of men. For, because the people quaked... | |
 | Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson - Christian literature, Early - 1871 - 482 pages
...the luminaries turned away, and tlie day became darkened, because they slew God, who hung naked on the tree. It was not the body of our Lord that the luminaries covered with darkness when they set,2 but the eyes of men. For, because the people quaked... | |
 | 1895 - 216 pages
...by an Israelitish right hand. Ah t the fresh wickedness of the fresh murder ! The Lord was exposed with a naked body; He was not deemed worthy even of...they were slaying God, who was naked upon the tree. 1 The whole passage from which this extract is taken is far too long to quote, but it is all couched... | |
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The Lord was exposed with naked body : He was not deemed worthy even of covering ; and, in order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened, because they slew God, who hung naked on the tree. It was not the body... 