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 1  1,6 |          to our understanding of historical Christianity, the development
 2  1,6 |       emphasize the literary and historical circumstances of the New
 3  2,5 | Martyrdom of Ignatius has little historical worth. We can only suppose
 4  2,7 |   account of this, substantially historical, was embodied in a letter
 5  2,9 |         on a cloud.~The writer's historical weakness is obvious; he
 6  4,2 |          imitated by Luke in his historical sketch of the beginnings
 7  4,2 | authentic material comparable in historical value with that in the earlier
 8  4,10|        with Judaism.~ But from a historical point of view the Book of
 9  5,6 |        suppose there is anything historical about these Acts. They are,
10 10,4 |        was polemical rather than historical. He wrote to prove the superior
11 10,4 |         made use of a variety of historical materials, most uncritically,
12 10,4 |    credits him with. Indeed both historical and polemical writers were
13 12,3 |      addition to its literal and historical meanings. Like most ancients,
14 13,3 |         less atornistic and more historical in his interpretation than
15 14,9 |        It seems idle to look for historical characters in the persons
16 14,10|          he fully recognized the historical importance of the Roman
17 15,3 |     either literary movements or historical events. Indeed, Eusebius