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Commentary on Zechariah, Malachi by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
Lecture One Hundred and Seventy-eighth In our last lecture the Prophet delineated the office of Christ, that hypocrites might know that they in vain complained of the tardiness of God, as though he had deserted them at the very time of their extremity.
NPNF-211. Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
And to support this judgment delivered of old by the blessed Antony and the other fathers by a modern instance, as we promised to do, remember what you lately saw happen before your very eyes, I mean, how the old man Heron, Gazæus thinks that this is a different person from the man of the same name mentioned by Palladius, Hist.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go - Moses, in treating with the elders of Israel, is directed to call God the God of their fathers; but, in treating with Pharaoh, they call him the God of Israel, and it is the first time we find him called so in scripture.
NPNF2-10. Ambrose: Selected Works and Letters by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
acceptable to God is shown by the example of Joshua, Caleb, and the other spies. 53. When could our fathers ever have thrown off their servitude, unless they had believed that it was not only shameful but even useless to serve the king of Egypt? 54.
Commentary on Ezekiel - Volume 2 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
42. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
Christian Year by Keble, John (1792-1866)
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... cry out; pater, father) Sayings of the Fathers of the Desert. Various collections exist of aphorisms and anecdotes ...
Barnes' New Testament Notes by Barnes, Albert (1798-1870)
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE - Chapter 16 - Verse 24 Verse 24. Father Abraham. The Jews considered it a signal honour that Abraham was their father—that is, that they were descendants from him.
New Testament, An American Translation by Anonymous (Bible)
Chapter 4 Then Jesus was guided by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And he fasted forty days and nights, and after it he was famished. And the tempter came up and said to him, “If you are God’s son, tell these stones to turn into bread!” But he answered, “The Scripture says, ‘Not on bread alone is man to live,…
Commentary on Joel, Amos, Obadiah by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
1 The word of Jehovah which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear this, ye the aged; And give ear, al ye inhabitants of the land; Hath this been in your days, Or in the days of your fathers? 3 This to your children declare, And your children to their children, And their children to the next generation, — 4 “The residue of the locust hath the chafer eaten,…