Sentences with phrase «earlier than»

Higher and earlier than the angels, this true Adam is as old as God, older than the Bible, and is free of time, unstained by mortality.»

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

One thing, however, we can say with reasonable certainty is that the large body of sayings which he gives in common with Luke must have conic down to both, whether in writing or by word of mouth, from a period much earlier than the date at which the two authors wrote.2 It brings us that much nearer to the fountainhead.

Only Paul mentions the commandment to repeat the rite, though (since Paul's letter is some years earlier than Mark's gospel) by Mark's time it has doubtless become so customary that it didn't need to be mentioned.

In this respect, he resembled the Hindu sages, who had come much earlier than the Greeks to a clear awareness of the soul in sharp antithesis to sensory appearances.

If bridal mysticism is responsible for scaring men away from the Church, then it should have done so much earlier than the twelfth century, and in the Eastern churches as well.»

Its date can not be determined, nor is there any wide agreement about it among critics, but it is (in my judgment) not likely to be any earlier than Luke's history of the Beginnings.

Acknowledging that, we move on to the letters of the church, most of them earlier than the Gospels, to the Acts of the Apostles, and to those parts of the Gospels where Jesus does not speak, notably the infancy narratives.

For this we must turn to 1 Corinthians 15, which is probably considerably earlier than any of the Gospels in their written form.

Catherine was the second woman to be named by the pope a doctor of the church, in 1970, though she was earlier than the first, Teresa of Avila.

the «General Epistles» of John and Jude, and the so - called Second Epistle of Peter, which is probably the latest work in the New Testament, not much earlier than the middle of the second century.

Similarly Mark 14: 22 - 24 Paul's account was written down at least ten years earlier than Mark's.

In making the full Aristotelian move I am really drawing much of my insight from Science and the Modern World, a book four years earlier than the full - blown theory of Process and Reality.

We can change morality in its finer points and have been doing so since before Jesus and even earlier than that.

Similarly, if event A is in the past of event B, then A is earlier than B, and B is later than A, and hence the B - series characteristics follow from the A-series characteristics, as the A-series characteristics follow from the B - series characteristics.

Analogously, the fact that parts of sayings in Thomas can be paralleled in several gospels does not prove that the author used a source earlier than them; it may well indicate simply that he was combining gospel words.

Then these reports, mainly of Jesus» sayings but with some narrative material, were compiled into a written record earlier than Mark's.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

She had to wear long winter underwear and heavy overshoes in bad weather; she remembers vividly how in grade school her teachers would let her start getting ready to go home five minutes earlier than the rest of the class because of all the layers she had to put on.

Riegner has identified an important missing document from the published archival materials (whose existence is acknowledged in the archives) that shows the Vatican had information about the depth of the Nazi attack on the Jews considerably earlier than it has claimed.

B's act of becoming is earlier than C's act of becoming.

The main point is that there are actual occasions that came into being before (i.e., earlier than) our cosmic epoch.

In a dense series, distinct elements can be obtained by cuts, dividing the series unambiguously into subclasses of all members earlier than the instant obtained by the cut, in contrast to all members later than the instant obtained by the cut, or all members to the left of the point, in contrast to all members to the right of the point.

In terms of the modalities of past, present, and future, events in the past which are closer to the present are later than those which are more remote, whereas the reverse holds true for future events, i.e., those nearer the present are earlier than those more remote.

The terms «succession» and «order» are synonymous (or coextensive): one entity temporally succeeds another just in case the latter is earlier than the former.

Consequently whenever one actual occasion is earlier than another — and they both are members of these dominant societies — there is a space - time distance between them.

Some come into being earlier than others.

But my view is that the immediatist should instead claim that later actual occasions are felt earlier than earlier ones.

And it is connected: any two instants are such that one is earlier than the other.

In contrast, the ordinalist claims that it is metaphysically possible for one entity to be earlier than another without there being a space - time distance between them.

Whenever one actual occasion is earlier than another, is there always a space - time distance between them?

Therefore, even though there are no space - time distances between an actual occasions feelings, it is metaphysically possible for some of those feelings to be earlier than others.

But one entity can not be earlier than another unless they are in different space - time regions.

Note that act of becoming L is immediately later than act of becoming K just in case (1) K is earlier than L and (2) there is no act of becoming that is both later than K and earlier than L.

The fact that actual occasion A comes into being earlier than actual occasion B is an absolute fact: it holds for every observer (or frame of reference).4

An immediatist might claim that no simple physical feeling comes into being earlier than any other, or that earlier actual occasions are felt earlier than later ones.

Therefore, in terms of the notion of time as perpetual perishing, it can not be said that some concrescing prehensions are earlier than others.

Further, these additions are not credited as being added any earlier than 70 CE, a full 37 years after the purported death of your messiah.

G's act of becoming is earlier than F's act of becoming.

To summarize, the mediatist accepts the following mirroring thesis: one simple physical feeling comes into being earlier than another simple physical feeling just in case the actual occasion felt by the former comes into being later than the actual occasion felt by the latter.15 (It is assumed that the two feelings are in one and the same process of concrescence.)

Some instants are earlier than others.

Thus the old prehensions came into being (i.e., originated) earlier than the new prehensions.

Accordingly, it is metaphysically possible for one entity to be earlier than another without there being a space - time distance between them.

May 24, 2013 — Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives.

Religion did not evolve independently from, or earlier than, our moral capacities.

«30 But no earlier than in Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas does the philosophical relevance of revelation - theological content assume reflexive shape.31

The Orthodox joined the movement early on — much earlier than the official Roman Catholic involvement.

Drinking is also common during this time; in fact, a traditional source recommends performing the priestly blessing earlier than usual in the service, to make sure the kohanim are not drunk when the time comes!

If the «hymn» is earlier than Paul, and hence quoted by him, it may even have been Roman in origin.)

Two verses, Mark 14:28; 16:7, may be later even than the Gospel of Luke, though earlier than Matthew.