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Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)
ERUNNER. (St. Matt. i.; St. Luke i. 26-80.) FROM the Temple to Nazareth! It seems indeed most fitting that the Evangelic story should have taken its beginning within the Sanctuary, and at the time of sacrifice.
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)
(St. Matt. xiii. 54-58; x. 1, 5-42; xi. 1; St. Mark vi. 1-13; St. Luke ix. 1-6.) It almost seems, as if the departure of Jesus from Capernaum marked a crisis in the history of that town.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
This, one of the longest of Jerome’s letters, was written to console Eustochium for the loss of her mother who had recently died. Jerome relates the story of Paula in detail; speaking first of her high birth, marriage, and social success at Rome, and then narrating her conversion and subsequent life as a Christian ascetic.
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.…
Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 2 Of the Holy Scriptures As what I shall say hereafter concerning God, his essence, perfections, persons, works, and worship, and everything relative to him, will be taken out of the sacred scriptures, and proved by them; it will be necessary, before I proceed any further, to secure the ground I go upon; and establish the divine authority of them; and show that they are a perfect, plain,…
Institutes of the Christian Religion by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
CHAPTER 5. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CONSPICUOUS IN THE CREATION, AND CONTINUAL GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD. This chapter consists of two parts: 1. The former, which occupies the first ten sections, divides all the works of God into two great classes, and elucidates the knowledge of God as displayed in each class.
Nature and Causes of Apostasy from the Gospel by Owen, John (1616-1683)
ld, causes of apostasy — The work of Satan, and judgments of God in this matter. III. The innate pride and vanity of the minds of men is another means whereby they are disposed and inclined unto an apostasy from the profession of evangelical truth.
Christian Ecclesia: A Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia and One Sermon by Hort, Fenton John Anthony (1828-1892)
FROM Titus and Timothy themselves we pass naturally to the officers of the Ecclesiae of which they were set for a time in charge. In Crete, as we saw before, there were apparently no Elders previously; and the duty most definitely named as laid on Titus was to set (or establish or appoint) Elders in the several cities.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 37: 1891 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." Ephesians 6:17. To be a Christian is to be a warrior. The good soldier of Jesus Christ must not expect to find ease in this world—it is a battlefield! Neither must he reckon upon the friendship of the world, for that would be enmity against God.
Secret of Guidance by Meyer, Frederick Brotherton (1847-1929)
Chapter IX THE FULNESS OF THE SPIRIT "Be Filled with the Spirit." ‑‑ Ephesians v. 18. Nothing can compensate the Church, or the individual Christian, for the lack of the Holy Spirit.