| English literature - 1768 - 514 pages
...ruffians; and that our Saviour alluded to the cafe of Archelaus, who went to Rome, in the parable of a certain nobleman who went into a far country to receive for himfelf a kingdom, and to return. After his departure for Italy, as Le Clerc, and our author obferve,... | |
| 1774 - 460 pages
...fif his PARABLES. As to inrtance in fome of them : In the 1 9th chapter of St. Luke, he tells us of a certain nobleman, 'who 'went into a far country, to receive for himfelf a kingdom, and. to return-, where he defcribes his own leaving this world, and afcending into... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1793 - 200 pages
...expetted (ch. xix.) that the kingdom of God would immediately appear, Jefus recited the parable of a certain nobleman, who went into a far country to receive for himfelf a kingdom, and to return, and he did not receive the kingdom till his return. In the prophecy... | |
| 310 pages
...things that offend. Yes, the Kingdom is His, both by right of creation and by purchase. He has gone to a " far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return." (Luke six. 12.) Return He will, and take possession. " I saw in the night visions, and behold one like... | |
| William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 544 pages
...all power, and return invested with it to the general judgment, is signified under the person of a nobleman who went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return — But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, we zoill not have this man to... | |
| John Farrer - Parables - 1801 - 394 pages
...for the use of their guests on any solemn or festal occasion"'. In the case of the 'nobleman going into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return, we may also discover an allusion to a practice not unusual in the time of the Roman power, and recently... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12 He said, therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 1 3 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy ti il... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12 He said therefore, Acertain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12 He said, therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I... | |
| 1806 - 658 pages
...GOSPEL. Luke xix. 12. 20. AT that time : Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples : A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. And calling his ten servants, he delivered to them ten pounds, and said to them : Trade therewith till... | |
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