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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)
“THY faith.” Faith is so Christ’s, as the fountain and the cause, that it is ours, as agents moved and acted by Christ. Hence it is a foul error to say, ‘That there is no inherent righteousness in the saints, and no graces in the souls of believers, but in Christ only.’ There is water, even “the Spirit poured on the dry ground,” (Isa.
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)
“Then Jesus answered, and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith,” etc. THIS is the last passage of the text, containing a commendation of the woman, given to her by Christ in her face.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, archbishop of constantinople, on the second epistle of St. paul the apostle. to the corinthians. ———————————— Homily I.
NPNF1-08. St. Augustine: Exposition on the Book of Psalms by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. Lat. XXXV. 1. …“The ungodly hath said in himself that he will sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes” (ver. 1). Not of one man, but of a race of ungodly men he speaketh, who fight against their own selves, by not understanding, that so they may live well; not because they cannot, but because they will not.
NPNF1-09. St. Chrysostom: On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statutes by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
1. Among the events which occurred in the time of John Chrysostom, [That is events which occurred at Antioch during St. Chrysostom’s sojourn in that city—Ed.] there is none more memorable than that sedition of the inhabitants of Antioch, in which the Statues of the Emperor Theodosius and Flacilla his wife were thrown down and dragged about the city, at which Theodosius was so exasperated,…
Christian Workers' Commentary on the Old and New Testaments by Gray, James (1851-1935)
LUKE INTRODUCTORY Luke, like Mark, wrote for the Gentiles, but for a different class than he. While Mark had the Romans in mind, the writers of the first three centuries testify that Luke wrote for the Greeks, and this is corroborated by the internal evidence of the book itself.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible by Jamieson, Robert (1802-1880)
1Co 16:1-24. Directions as to the Collection for the Judean Christians: Paul's Future Plans: He Commends to Them Timothy, Apollos, &C. Salutations and Conclusions.
Meditating on Scripture with the Saints by Pasko, Mark
151. Petitionary Prayer (Justice Will Be Done) Divine providence does not early arrange what effects are to occur; it also arranges the causes of these effects and the relationship between them...in the case of prayer we do not pray in order to change God's plan, but in order to obtain by our prayers those things which God planned to bring about by means of prayers, in order, as Gregory says,…
Revision Revised by Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
Such is the time-honoured Version which we have been called upon to revise! We have had to study this great Version carefully and minutely, line by line; and the longer we have been engaged upon it the more we have learned to admire its simplicity, its dignity, its power, its happy turns of expression, its general accuracy, and we must not fail to add, the music of its cadences,…
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
J O B CHAP. XVIII. In this chapter Bildad makes a second assault upon Job. In his first discourse (ch. viii.) he had given him encouragement to hope that all should yet be well with him.