 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1839 - 292 lehte
...pray truly, but the ' angels' also ' in " heaven' who ' rejoice over one sinner that repenteth " more than over ninety and nine just persons, who " need no repentance,' and the souls of the saints who " fell asleep before us : — For whereas in this life " knowledge is manifested... | |
 | Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.) - 1844 - 504 lehte
...who pray truly, but the ' angels' also ' in heaven' who ' rejoice over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance,' and the souls of the saints who fell asleep before us:— for whereas in this life knowledge is manifested... | |
 | 784 lehte
...to the words of our divine master — " There is joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." And a thousand such examples might be cited ; but we turn to a more serious argument. We do not wish to... | |
 | Josiah Beatson Lowe - 1849 - 124 lehte
...which was put not on the son who never sinned, but upon the prodigal. Why ? Because there " is more joy over one sinner that repenteth," than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance ; and there is more dignity and honour put upon the redeemed sinner by being identified with Jesus, than... | |
 | Harold King - 1868 - 286 lehte
...touched with the liveliest pity ; " remember rather the words of our compassionate Saviour, who said, ' There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...and nine just persons who need no repentance' ; and, ' I am come to save that which was lost.' The Gospels are full of these consoling promises ; it is... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1869 - 546 lehte
...those who pray aright, but the angels also, who 'rejoice in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance,' and the souls of the saints who have fallen asleep before ' Eph. ii. 14, 15. 4 Do Orat. n. 11. T. i. pp.... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1877 - 474 lehte
...the words fell like fertilizing dew on the sinners' souls, quickened them into a new life — " more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance," and as He said them He turned to the others — and perhaps their grave irony pierced the souls of those... | |
 | Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless - 1887 - 560 lehte
...contemporaneous inward confirmation of the evangelical word, that in heaven there is more joy over one sinner who repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance (Luke xv. 7). The course of conversion resembles that of the prodigal son to his father. " I have sinned... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 lehte
...application is made by the Savior in this parable, thus: 'Verily, I say unto you, there is more rejoicing in Heaven over one sinner that rep'enteth, than over...and nine just persons who need no repentance.' And now if the Judge (Douglas) claims the benefit of this parable, let him repent. Let him not come up... | |
 | Lorenzo Burge - 1888 - 322 lehte
...willing that the least of us should perish, but that all should receive eternal life. He rejoices more over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. And will he not lend a listening ear to those repentant souls in outer darkness, who are weeping in remorse,... | |
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Priest alone pray with those who pray truly, but the ' angels' also ' in heaven,' who ' rejoice over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance... 
