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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible by Jamieson, Robert (1802-1880)
... —This name, Potiphar, signifies one "devoted to the sun," the local deity of On or Heliopolis, a ...
Commentary on Zechariah, Malachi by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
... Spirit. The meaning then of the word sun, when metaphorically applied to Christ, is ... something incongruous in the expression, “the Sun of righteousness.” Hence some have considered ... is, that Christ is called the Sun of righteousness, because he determines all ...
NPNF1-02. St. Augustine's City of God and Christian Doctrine by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... , which are measured by the course of the sun. It is proved by this, that Scripture states ... to adjust it with the course of the sun. It was a year of this length which ...
Morning and Evening: Daily Readings by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins ...
Morning and Evening: Daily Readings by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... were steady until the going down of the sun.” Exodus 17:12 So mighty was the prayer ... hands steady “until the going down of the sun;” till the evening of life is over;…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... twelve months; and that the light of the sun is not there, because the Lamb is the ... word. And in that he says that the sun is not necessary in the city, he shows ...
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom by Farrar, Frederic William (1831-1903)
... drench’d it is with tempest, to the sun.—Tennyson Weeping, ringing his hands, casting up his ...
Commentary on Jonah, Micah, Nahum by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
... you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the ... you instead of divination: Yea, set shall the sun upon the Prophets, And darken upon them shall ... even at noon they will see nothing; the sun will shine on all, but they shall ...
Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap. VIII, and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
... are to think of the strong Eastern sun, whose blinding light steadily increases till the ... Astronomers tell us that there are dark suns, that have burnt themselves out, and ... shall the righteous blaze forth like the sun, in their Heavenly Father’s kingdom.’ ...
ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Against Praxeas by Tertullianus, Quintas Septimus Florens (c. 160-c. 225)
... inseparable union—as (by the examples) of the sun and the ray, and the fountain and the ...
