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... Scriptural Hebrew , took away ' the key of knowledge ' from the multi- tude ( Luke xi.52 ) . Traces of Aramaic exist in the fre- quent use of the words " immediately " and " straightway " ( Mark i.10 , 12 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 28 , etc ...
... Scriptural Hebrew , took away ' the key of knowledge ' from the multi- tude ( Luke xi.52 ) . Traces of Aramaic exist in the fre- quent use of the words " immediately " and " straightway " ( Mark i.10 , 12 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 28 , etc ...
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... Scripture ' and sometimes publicly read in the churches . It has been called " a good but dull novel , " but it is a veritable mine of information concerning the Church in Rome and the growing institutionalism of the Faith . A more ...
... Scripture ' and sometimes publicly read in the churches . It has been called " a good but dull novel , " but it is a veritable mine of information concerning the Church in Rome and the growing institutionalism of the Faith . A more ...
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... Scripture . " It shows that while the Old Testament held a place of high esteem , there was another measure of truth for the Church , and all forms of faith were tried by that new standard . JUSTIN'S philosophic temper was ...
... Scripture . " It shows that while the Old Testament held a place of high esteem , there was another measure of truth for the Church , and all forms of faith were tried by that new standard . JUSTIN'S philosophic temper was ...
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... Scripture , or the spiritualism of this error . There is a dialogue " on the right faith in God , " entitled Against the Marcionists , by an unknown author , who gave the name Adamantius to the orthodox disputant . It is not a work of ...
... Scripture , or the spiritualism of this error . There is a dialogue " on the right faith in God , " entitled Against the Marcionists , by an unknown author , who gave the name Adamantius to the orthodox disputant . It is not a work of ...
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... Scripture forbids any prophet to receive gifts and money ? When therefore I see a prophetess receiving both gold and silver and precious garments , how can I fail to reject her ? Tell me does a prophet dye ? Does a prophet paint ? Does ...
... Scripture forbids any prophet to receive gifts and money ? When therefore I see a prophetess receiving both gold and silver and precious garments , how can I fail to reject her ? Tell me does a prophet dye ? Does a prophet paint ? Does ...
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Page 353 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
Page 132 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 499 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 473 - Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race.
Page 2 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Page 338 - Now was I come up in Spirit through the flaming sword, into the paradise of God. All things were new; and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Page 425 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 352 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 387 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece, but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and...
Page 6 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth ; as there are gods many, and lords many ; yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him ; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.