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Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 28 Of The Personal Relations; Or, Relative Properties Which Distinguish The Three Divine Persons In The Deity. Since there are Three who are the one God; and these Three are not one and the same Person, but three different Persons, there must be something which distinguishes them from each other; and the distinction between them is not merely “nominal”, which is no distinction at all;…
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
1. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. 1. Habitavit itaque Iahacob in terra peregrinationum patris sui, in terra Chenaan.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
N U M B E R S CHAP. XX. At this chapter begins the history of the fortieth year (which was the last year) of the Israelites' wandering in the wilderness. And since the beginning of their second year, when they were sentenced to perform their quarantine in the desert, there to wear away the tedious revolution of forty years, there is little recorded concerning them till this last year,…
Discourse on the Cleansing Virtue of Christ’s Blood by Charnock, Stephen (1628-1680)
The apostle, in the beginning of the chapter, puts the saints to whom he writes in mind of the Gospel he had writ, wherein he had declared to them that Word of life which had been with the Father, and was manifested to the world, and which he now declares again, that they might have a fellowship with the apostles in the truth, and not with the false teachers in their errors; and for an incentive,…
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)
WHEN with an anxious and aching heart Alyosha went into his elder's cell, he stood still almost astonished. Instead of a sick man at his last gasp, perhaps unconscious, as he had feared to find him, he saw him sitting up in his chair and, though weak and exhausted, his face was bright and cheerful, he was surrounded by visitors and engaged in a quiet and joyful conversation.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 08: 1863 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"None eye pitied you, to do any of these unto you, to ha ve compassion upon you. But you were cast out into the open field to the loathing of your person, in the day that you were born.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
A letter of guidance to a widow on the best means of preserving her widowhood (according to Jerome ‘the second of the three degrees of chastity’). Furia had at one time thought of marrying again but eventually abandoned her intention and devoted herself to the care of her young children and her aged father.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 28: 1882 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"For in You the fatherless finds mercy." Hosea 14:3. THE Lord God of Israel, the one only living and true God, has this for a special mark of His Character, that in Him the fatherless finds mercy.
NPNF2-04. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
the Son is one with the Father in will and judgment; but so are all good men, nay things inanimate; contrast of the Son. Oneness between Them is in nature, because oneness in operation.
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Exhortation to the Heathen by Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215)
Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both minstrels, and both were renowned in story. They are celebrated in song to this day in the chorus of the Greeks; the one for having allured the fishes,…