Dangers of the Apostolic AgeMacmillan, 1903 - 225 pages |
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... God , the causing of evil might be attributed . St. Paul attacked this error in the Epistle to the Colossians , claiming therein for God His unimpaired right of universal sovereignty , and pointing for the solution of the terrible ...
... God , the causing of evil might be attributed . St. Paul attacked this error in the Epistle to the Colossians , claiming therein for God His unimpaired right of universal sovereignty , and pointing for the solution of the terrible ...
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... gods . But now I have said that , superimposed on this lower Phrygian layer of population , there was another and a conquering element , which , indeed , gave its determining character to the whole . We are startled by the sudden ...
... gods . But now I have said that , superimposed on this lower Phrygian layer of population , there was another and a conquering element , which , indeed , gave its determining character to the whole . We are startled by the sudden ...
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... gods , continuing their devotion to her service , even when the black , ugly fetish , which was supposed to have fallen from heaven , had been removed to Rome ; at Tavium the prevailing worship was that of the Greek Zeus ; while at ...
... gods , continuing their devotion to her service , even when the black , ugly fetish , which was supposed to have fallen from heaven , had been removed to Rome ; at Tavium the prevailing worship was that of the Greek Zeus ; while at ...
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... God , he would commune with his own heart on the meaning of the awful , blessed thing which had happened to him . There , in those stern desolations , which spoke so solemnly of the law's iron demands , he would ponder the relations of ...
... God , he would commune with his own heart on the meaning of the awful , blessed thing which had happened to him . There , in those stern desolations , which spoke so solemnly of the law's iron demands , he would ponder the relations of ...
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... God the Holy Ghost had blessed their preaching . 66 It With good and pious men this is always a powerful argu- ment . It was the fait accompli which silenced those who objected that Peter had eaten with men uncircumcised in the house of ...
... God the Holy Ghost had blessed their preaching . 66 It With good and pious men this is always a powerful argu- ment . It was the fait accompli which silenced those who objected that Peter had eaten with men uncircumcised in the house of ...
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Page 201 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 210 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Page 172 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 137 - Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit ; That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ, by the Gospel...
Page 215 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 165 - Christ, to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known, by the church, the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord ; in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Page 216 - With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 155 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 144 - A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season; a flight of locusts, or an inundation, desolates a district ; a trifling chemical change in an edible root, starves a million of people.
Page 144 - If there are any marks at all of special design in creation, one of the things most evidently designed is that a large proportion of all animals should pass their existence in tormenting and devouring other animals. They have been lavishly fitted out with the instruments necessary for that purpose; their strongest instincts impel them to it, and many of them seem to have been constructed incapable of supporting themselves by any other food.