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Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
[Letter of the Author to his Pupil, R. Joseph Ibn Aknin.] In the name of GOD, Lord of the Universe. To R. Joseph (may God protect him!), son of R. Jehudah (may his repose be in Paradise!): — My dear pupil, ever since you resolved to come to me, from a distant country, and to study under my direction, I thought highly of your thirst for knowledge, and your fondness for speculative pursuits,…
NPNF1-09. St. Chrysostom: On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statutes by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. An exhortation to virtue—and particularly upon the passage, “God was walking in Paradise in the cool of the day:”—and again on the subject of abstaining from oaths.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John (1608-1674)
Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act Of SATAN done in Paradise, and how Hee in the Serpent had perverted EVE, Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit, Was known in Heav'n; for what can scape the Eye Of God All-seeing, or deceave his Heart Omniscient, who in all things wise and just, Hinder'd not SATAN to attempt the minde Of Man, with strength entire,…
Table Talk by Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
DCXXIX. Whoso, without the word of grace and prayer, disputes with the devil touching sin and the law, will lose; therefore let him leave off betimes. For the devil is armed against us with Goliah’s sword, with his spear and weapons; that is he has on his side to assist him, the testimony of our own consciences, which witness against us in that we have transgressed all God’s commandments;…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"To show forth Your loving kindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night." Psalm 92:2. IT is a notion of the Rabbis that this Psalm was sung by Adam in Paradise.
St. Anselm's Book of Meditations and Prayers. by Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)
WE SHALL WITHOUT DOUBT FIND TRUE MERCY FOR ALL OUR SINS IF WE DO TRUE PENANCE. [§ 25. The condition of the sinner.] I feel no little fear when I look back upon the sins I have committed, and bethink me of the pains and torments which I deserve to suffer for them; and so, in my great anxiety and my great alarm lest I should be lost,…
Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christ's dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan by Rutherford, Samuel (1600-1661)
QUESTION. But cannot Christ be hid? Answer. Not of himself. It is hard to hide a great fire, or to cast a covering upon sweet odours, that they smell not. Christ’s name is as a sweet ointment poured out: he is a mountain of spices, and he is a strong savour of heaven, and of the higher paradise.
Seaboard Parish, Complete by MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
. The next morning the captain of the lost vessel called upon me early to thank me for himself and his men. He was a fine honest-looking burly fellow, dressed in blue from head to heel.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 15: 1869 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"For we who have believed do enter into rest."- Hebrews 4:3. REST! A dainty word, indeed! Too rich a syllable for this unstable earth! Is it not a stray word from the language of the celestials? REST! Is it obtainable? Is it possible? Can there ever be rest for the race who were driven out of Paradise to till the ground from where they were taken and to eat bread in the sweat of their face? Rest!…
Barnes' New Testament Notes by Barnes, Albert (1798-1870)
THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS - Chapter 12 - Verse 4 Verse 4. Into paradise. The word paradise (paradeison) occurs but three times in the New Testament, Lu 23:43; Re 2:7; and in this place.