Simon Greenleaf Quotes

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• The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68,…
• Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to…
• Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt,…
• If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon…
• The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having…
• The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as…
• These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to…
• But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to…
• There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without…
• Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than…
• In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily…
• The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view,…
• But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to…
• By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of…
• How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found,…
• In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed,…
• In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact,…
• In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there…
• Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.
• Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider…

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