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Celestial Hierarchy by Dionysius, the Pseudo-Areopagite (c.650—c. 725)
CHAPTER XV What is the meaning of the formal semblances of the Angelic Powers? What of the fiery and the anthropomorphic? What is meant by their yes, nostrils, ears, mouths, touch, eyelids eyebrows their manhood, teeth, shoulders, arms, hands, heart, breasts, backs, feet and wings? What are the nakedness and the vesture, the shining raiment, the priestly insignia, the girdles? What are the rods,…
Desire of Ages by White, Ellen Gould (1827-1915)
Chapter 49 At the Feast of Tabernacles [This chapter is based on John 7:1–15, 37–39.] Three times a year the Jews were required to assemble at Jerusalem for religious purposes.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
St. Mary of Egypt Born probably about 344; died about 421. At the early age of twelve Mary left her home and came to Alexandria, where for upwards of seventeen years she led a life of public prostitution.
Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation by Baker, Augustine (1517-1641)
CHAPTER III. § 1. Of reading, which is next to prayer. § 2. Some books may be read for diversion. § 3. But spiritual books only for the soul’s profit. §§ 4, 5.
Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation by Baker, Augustine (1517-1641)
CHAPTER II. § 1. Commonly those only are said to aspire to perfection that consecrate themselves to God. § 2. A natural devotion and propension to seek God,…
Sermons. [Vol. I.] by Manning, Henry Edward (1808-1892)
SERMON III. ON FALLING FROM THE GRACE OF BAPTISM, ST. LUKE xvii. 32. “Remember Lot’s wife.” THIS warning, taken from the familiar history of the Jews, is a part of our Lord’s answer to those that asked when the kingdom of God should come.
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
Whether the number of the predestined is certain? Objection 1: It seems that the number of the predestined is not certain. For a number to which an addition can be made is not certain.
Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. by Wernle, Paul (1872-1939)
EVEN in Jesus’ lifetime there was a Christian fellowship in the ideal sense of the word, the number of all those who recognized Him as the Lord, as their Head, and kept His commandments in their daily life.
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)
‘Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
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)
‘Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2. While the sun, or the light,…