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Unspoken Sermons Third Series by MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.—John i. 3, 4. It seems to me that any lover of the gospel given to thinking, and especially one accustomed to the effort of uttering thought, can hardly have failed to feel dissatisfaction, more or less definite, with the close of the third verse,…
Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah, Volume I by Ball, Charles James (1851-1924)
Jeremiah iv. 3-vi. 30. If we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of prophecy, two things would seem to be requisite. We must prepare ourselves with some knowledge of the circumstances of the time, and we must form some general conception of the ideas and aims of the inspired writer, both in themselves,…
Sermons on Several Occasions by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Sermon 61 [text of the 1872 edition] The Mystery of Iniquity “The mystery of iniquity doth already work.” 2 Thess. 2:7. 1. Without inquiring how far these words refer to any particular event in the Christian Church, I would at present take occasion from them to consider that important question,…
Life of the late Rev. Mr. John Flavel by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
, minister of Dartmouth. Those of the name of Flavel derive their pedigree from one who was the third great officer that came over with William the Conqueror; but this worthy Divine was far from that weakness and vanity to boast of any thing of that nature, being of the poet's mind, who said, Et genus, et proavos, et quae non fecimus ipsi,…
Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Peter by Lumby, Joseph Rawson (1831-1895)
XI THE REWARDS OF SUFFERING FOR WELL-DOING "For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit; in which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison,…
Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by Findlay, George Gillanders (1849-1919)
“Be not ye therefore partakers with them; for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
General Epistles: James, Peter, and Judas by Moffat, James, D.D. (1870-1944)
i. 1 PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. by Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
§. 1. HAVING thus taken a view of his opinion, and considered how much he attributes to oral tradition, and how little to the Scriptures; before I assail his hypothesis, I shall lay down the protestant rule of faith; not that so much is necessary for the answering of his book,…
Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther by Adeney, Walter Frederic (1849-1920)
Ezra iv. 1-5, 24. The fourth chapter of the Book of Ezra introduces the vexed question of the limits of comprehension in religion by affording a concrete illustration of it in a very acute form.
Introduction to the New Testament by Berkhof, Louis (1873-1957)
CONTENTS The Epistle to the Ephesians is naturally divided into two parts: I. The Doctrinal Part, treating of the Unity of the Church, 1:1—3: 21. After the address and salutation, l:l, 2, the apostle praises God for the great spiritual blessings received in Christ, in whom the Ephesians have been chosen,…