 | Simon Greenleaf - Apologetics - 1846 - 548 pages
...1-59. shall be much required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. 49 I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled 1 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished ! 51... | |
 | Robert Hawker (D.D.) - Bible - 1846 - 890 pages
...same, the Lord Jesus declares the purpose of his coming is to this effect. "1 am come (saith Christ) to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled," Luke xii. 49. And oue of the apostles declares, that in the end of the dispensation, of the gospel,... | |
 | Edward Robinson - Bible - 1846 - 248 pages
...be much required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ** I am ccme to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already * kindled 1 But I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitLUKE XII. w ened till it be accomplished... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...a fire, because the rust of our sins is burnt away by Him. It is of this fire that the Truth says, "I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled ?" For by earth is meant earthly hearts, which are ever heaping up within themselves vile thoughts,... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - Bibles - 1992 - 834 pages
...shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. 49 1 1 am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I. if it be already kindled? 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! 51 Suppose... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - Philosophy - 1993 - 228 pages
...escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. " Jesus said: "I am come to send 'FIRE' on the earth; and what will I, IF IT BE ALREADY KINDLED. (By Nuclear War) Suppose ye that I come to give peace on Earth? I tell you NAY; but rather division."... | |
 | Leslie Hardinge - Holy Spirit - 1996 - 196 pages
...Baptist's word by His one promise to send fire upon earth to separate the valuable from the useless. "I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?" Luke 12:49. This is not literal fire, of course. But, like fire, the Spirit's presence cleanses, warms,... | |
 | Shūsaku Endō - Fiction - 1997 - 276 pages
...punished, I too must be punished. 'O Lord. Do not abandon his soul. Rather punish me for his sin.' 'I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled?' 'But I have a baptism of death to be baptized with; and how am I pained till it be accomplished!' 'For... | |
 | John Henry Cardinal Newman - Education - 1999 - 508 pages
...spontaneously, and are spoken "out of the abundance of the heart." Our Lord said on one occasion:"! am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I but that it be kindled?" He had one work, and He accomplished it. "The words," He says, "which Thou... | |
 | Adriano Carelli - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 290 pages
...the spiritual reality underlying this world. 16° Symbol: Vutcanus forging Jupiter 's thunderbolts I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? — Luke 12:49 A fiery will, a stormy ardor; immense, often inordinate, aspirations, boundless phantasy... | |
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I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 
