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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.
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.…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
On the plagiarizing of the dogmas of the philosophers from the Hebrews, we shall treat a little afterwards. But first, as due order demands,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 15: 1869 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Of His fullness have we all received and Grace for Grace."- John 1:16. THESE are not words spoken by John the Baptist, as a cursory reader might imagine, but they were written by John the Evangelist.
Select Sermons by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
The Vain Self-Flatteries of the Sinner Psalm 36:2 -- For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. IN the foregoing verse, David says, that the transgression of the wicked said within his heart, "that there is no fear of God before his eyes;" that is, when he saw that the wicked went on in sin, in an allowed way of wickedness, it convinced him,…
Great Controversy by White, Ellen Gould (1827-1915)
Page 52. Image worship.—“The worship of images. .. was one of those corruptions of Christianity which crept into the church stealthily and almost without notice or observation.
Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established by Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
pture.— The correct Text of S. Luke ii. 14, established. (Referred to at p. 22.) IN Chapter III. the importance of attending to Patristic citations of Scripture has been largely insisted upon.
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
Whether the forms of bodies are from the angels? Objection 1: It would seem that the forms of bodies come from the angels. For Boethius says (De Trin. i): "From forms that are without matter come the forms that are in matter." But forms that are without matter are spiritual substances,…
Early Christian Fathers by Richardson, Cyril C. (1909-1976)
A Plea Regarding Christians by Athenagoras, the Athenian a Philosopher and a Christian The word "plea" in the title is sometimes wrongly translated (as by the Latin) "legation" or "embassy." While this is the original meaning of the Greek word presbeia, it is used here in the derived sense of a "plea"…
NPNF2-03. Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, & Rufinus: Historical Writings by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Orthodoxos and Eranistes. Orth.—Better were it for us to agree and abide by the apostolic doctrine in its purity. But since, I know not how, you have broken the harmony, and are now offering us new doctrines, let us, if you please, with no kind of quarrel, investigate the truth.