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... souls were tormented by punishments suggested by their sins . It can scarcely be later than 150 , and may be even earlier . CHAPTER IV THE NEW UNIVERSALISM The Hebrew renaissance , inspired 14 A History of Christian Literature.
... souls were tormented by punishments suggested by their sins . It can scarcely be later than 150 , and may be even earlier . CHAPTER IV THE NEW UNIVERSALISM The Hebrew renaissance , inspired 14 A History of Christian Literature.
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... soul is to the body . The soul is dispersed through all the limbs of the body : so the Christians are dispersed through all the cities of the world . The soul dwells within the body , yet is not part thereof : so the Chris- tians dwell ...
... soul is to the body . The soul is dispersed through all the limbs of the body : so the Christians are dispersed through all the cities of the world . The soul dwells within the body , yet is not part thereof : so the Chris- tians dwell ...
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... soul loves the flesh that hates it : so do Christians love those that hate them . . . . God has assigned them a certain place , to fill , and it is not lawful for them to refuse to fill it . The " disciple " who wrote to Diognetus has ...
... soul loves the flesh that hates it : so do Christians love those that hate them . . . . God has assigned them a certain place , to fill , and it is not lawful for them to refuse to fill it . The " disciple " who wrote to Diognetus has ...
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... soul is in the hand of God , ' saith the prophetic Spirit ) , so to the one God and the Logos proceeding from Him , the Son . apprehended by us as inseparable from Him , all things are in like manner subjected . ATHENAGORAS is decidedly ...
... soul is in the hand of God , ' saith the prophetic Spirit ) , so to the one God and the Logos proceeding from Him , the Son . apprehended by us as inseparable from Him , all things are in like manner subjected . ATHENAGORAS is decidedly ...
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... souls of them that had been slain for the word of God , and for the tes- timony which they held . I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints , and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus . And I saw .... the souls of them ...
... souls of them that had been slain for the word of God , and for the tes- timony which they held . I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints , and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus . And I saw .... the souls of them ...
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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.