The ExpositorSamuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt Hodder and Stoughton, 1883 |
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... reason to doubt whether a natural predisposition to the cardinal virtues is the best outfit for the prophet , the artist , or even the preacher ? Saints from of old have been more readily made out of publicans and sinners than out of ...
... reason to doubt whether a natural predisposition to the cardinal virtues is the best outfit for the prophet , the artist , or even the preacher ? Saints from of old have been more readily made out of publicans and sinners than out of ...
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... reason , on his honesty and straightforward- ness ; and Jonah , who was perhaps as irritable as poets are said to be , is set down as but a sorry and peevish specimen of the prophetic race , to whom judgment may have long since been ...
... reason , on his honesty and straightforward- ness ; and Jonah , who was perhaps as irritable as poets are said to be , is set down as but a sorry and peevish specimen of the prophetic race , to whom judgment may have long since been ...
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... reason for this1 lies in the very nature of an elder's duties . Curiously little is said either here or in the letters to Timothy about the functions of these primitive officers ; a subject on which we should have been glad to learn ...
... reason for this1 lies in the very nature of an elder's duties . Curiously little is said either here or in the letters to Timothy about the functions of these primitive officers ; a subject on which we should have been glad to learn ...
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... reasons for repudiating Verse 24 as spurious . Is there any authority in the existing MSS . for its rejection ? And the answer is , None whatever . There is an universal consensus for its retention . The uncials and the cursives which ...
... reasons for repudiating Verse 24 as spurious . Is there any authority in the existing MSS . for its rejection ? And the answer is , None whatever . There is an universal consensus for its retention . The uncials and the cursives which ...
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... reason for this reserve in communicating the doctrine of the personality of the devil is not far to seek . The innate tendency of the Jews to idolatry would have been fostered by the conception of a great wicked spirit capa- ble of ...
... reason for this reserve in communicating the doctrine of the personality of the devil is not far to seek . The innate tendency of the Jews to idolatry would have been fostered by the conception of a great wicked spirit capa- ble of ...
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Page 174 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 41 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 226 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held ; and they cried with a loud voice, saying ; How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 190 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 125 - Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Page 238 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Page 385 - Call his name Lo-ammi : for ye are not My people, and I will not be your God.
Page 222 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 97 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 218 - And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof : for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.