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History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles

The religious historian Augustus Neander wrote of the first-century Christians: “The practice of infant baptism was unknown at this period. . . . That not till so late a period as (at least certainly not earlier than) Irenaeus [c. 140-203 C.E.], a trace of infant baptism appears, and that it first became recognised as an apostolic tradition in the course of the third century, is evidence rather against than for the admission of its apostolic origin.”—History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles, 1864, p. 162.

Insight On the Scriptures-Volume I. 1988. p. 251

History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles

Chadman’s Cyclopedia of Law

Also, “Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation [found only in the Holy Scriptures], depend all human laws, that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.”—Chadman’s Cyclopedia of Law, 1912, Vol. I, pp. 89, 91; compare Mt 22:21; Ac 5:29.

Insight On the Scriptures-Volume II. 1988. p. 224

British jurist Sir William Blackstone highlighted the influence of the Bible when he said: “Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation [the Bible], depend all human laws, that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.”⁶

The Bible—God’s Word or Man’s? 1989. p. 8

6. Chadman’s Cyclopedia of Law, 1912, Vol. 1, p. 86-91.

The Bible—God’s Word or Man’s? 1989. p. 190

Chadman’s Cyclopedia of Law

Biblia Hebraica

In 1906, for example, the German scholar Rudolf Kittel published his famous Biblia Hebraica, or, Hebrew Bible.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1980 p. 10

Hebrew scholar Rudolf Kittel released in 1906 the first edition of his Biblia Hebraica (The Hebrew Bible), providing therein a textual study through a footnote service, comparing many Hebrew manuscripts of the Masoretic text.

Insight On the Scriptures-Volume II. 1988. p. 313

In 1906 Hebrew scholar Rudolf Kittel released in Germany the first edition (and later, a second edition) of his refined Hebrew text entitled Biblia Hebraica, or “The Hebrew Bible.”

All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial. 1990. p. 312

Biblia Hebraica