 ... shirts,* and set on fire when the day closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock Circensian entertainment ; being a spectator of the whole,...  The Cap of liberty - Side 1221820Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Paley - 1847 - 384 sider
...dress of a charioteer, sometimes mingling with the crowd on foot, and sometimes viewing the spectacles from his car. This conduct made the sufferers pitied; and though they were criminals, and de* This is rather a paraphrase, but is justified by what the Scholiast upon Juvenal says ; " Nero... | |
 | William Paley - 1848 - 462 sider
...gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock Circensian entertainment ; heing a spectator of the whole, in the dress of a charioteer...pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
 | William Paley - 1850 - 628 sider
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...charioteer sometimes mingling with the crowd on foot, and iomctimes viewing the spectacle from his car. This conduct made the sufferers pitied; and though they... | |
 | William Paley - 1851 - 766 sider
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gar dens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
 | 1851 - 594 sider
...Nero lent his own gardens for these executions ; and exhibited at the same time a mock < 'irccnsian entertainment, being a spectator- of the whole in...pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of regard to the... | |
 | William Henry Pinnock - 1852 - 338 sider
...closed, that " they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. " Nero lent his own garden for these executions, and "exhibited at the same time a mock...pitied; and though they " were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, " yet they were considered as sacrificed not so much out of " regard to the... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 224 sider
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...sometimes viewing the spectacle from his car." This frequently quoted passage makes it sufficiently clear that the Christians were despised and hated by... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1852 - 316 sider
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions; and exhibited at the same time a mock...entertainment, being a spectator of the whole, in tke dress of a charioteer, sometimes mingling with the crowd on foot, and sometimes viewing the spectacles... | |
 | John Smythe Memes - 1853 - 752 sider
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1854 - 276 sider
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...and sometimes viewing the spectacle from his car.' " Thus were realized the foretellings of our Saviour. He had said to those disciples — ' They shall... | |
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