 | Thomas Smyth - 1912 - 830 lehte
...(1 Cor. 4:15.) The Apostle James, passing by baptism and all other secondary causes, declares that "of HIS own will BEGAT HE us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creation." The Sovereignty of God, therefore, is the... | |
 | Alan Hugh McNeile - 1923 - 348 lehte
...Lord and Father,' rov icvpiov ical Trarepa, and in v. 4, no other meaning is possible.) The words ' Of His own will begat He us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures ' (i. 18) might refer to Christian regeneration... | |
 | Mildmay conference - 1869 - 234 lehte
...died for the ungodly — it is not our own work. It is the work of God's grace and of God's power. " Of His own will begat He us by the Word of truth." "God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, and given unto... | |
 | 1846 - 660 lehte
...faith and love, confidence, hope and joy ; — according to that declaration of the apostle James. "of his own will begat he us by the word of truth." Doctrinal truth is the seed, the experience of it is the stalk or trunk, and the life is the fruit.... | |
 | Reuben Archer Torrey, Charles L. Feinberg - 760 lehte
...corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the Word of God, which liveth and abideth" (I Pet. 1 :23). "Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth" (James 1:18). Jesus said: "The words I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life" (John 6 :63).... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 593 lehte
...worse, but He did certainly assume to Himself what was below Him. James also speaks to this effect : "Of His own will begat He us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits ' of His creatures." 8 And to preclude our supposing, as it... | |
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Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 
