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Works of Philo Judaeus by Philo (c. 20 B.C. - c. A.D. 50)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON GENESIS, III (1) What is the meaning of the expression, "I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of the Chaldaeans to give thee this land for an inheritance?" (Gen 15:7).
Works of Philo Judaeus by Philo (c. 20 B.C. - c. A.D. 50)
THE SPECIAL LAWS, II Yonge's title, A Treatise on the Special Laws, Which Are Referred to Three Articles of the Decalogue, Namely the Third, Fourth, and Fifth; About Oaths,…
NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustine, with a Sketch of his Life and Work by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Letter CXVIII. (a.d. 410.) Augustin to Dioscorus. Chap. I. 1. You have sent suddenly upon me a countless multitude of questions, by which you must have purposed to blockade me on every side, or rather bury me completely, even if you were under the impression that I was otherwise unoccupied and at leisure; for how could I, even though wholly at leisure,…
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature to Which Are Added, Two Brief Dissertations by Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
PREFACE BY THE EDITOR “When I consider how light a matter very often subjects the best established characters to the suspicions of posterity, posterity often as malignant to virtue as the age that saw it was envious of its glory; and how ready a remote age is to catch at a low revived slander, which the times that brought it forth saw despised and forgotten almost in its birth;…
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers by Owen, John (1616-1683)
The third direction proposed: Load thy conscience with the guilt of the perplexing distemper — The ways and means whereby that may be done — The fourth direction: Vehement desire for deliverance — The fifth: Some distempers rooted deeply in men’s natural tempers — Considerations of such distempers; ways of dealing with them — The sixth direction:…
Commentary on John - Volume 1 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
41. The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which have come down from heaven. 42. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How therefore doth he say, I have come down from heaven? 43.
Word Pictures in the New Testament by Robertson, Archibald Thomas (1863-1934)
Mark 1 Mark 1:1 The beginning (αρχη). There is no article in the Greek. It is possible that the phrase served as a heading or title for the paragraph about the ministry of the Baptist or as the superscription for the whole Gospel (Bruce) placed either by Mark or a scribe.
Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevelancy of the Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers by Owen, John (1616-1683)
deceitful — The general nature of deceit — James i. 14, opened — How the mind is drawn off from its duty by the deceitfulness of sin — The principal duties of the mind in our obedience — The ways and means whereby it is turned from it.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots by Baird, Henry M. (1832-1906)
. THE COLLOQUY OF POISSY AND THE EDICT OF JANUARY.…
NPNF1-07. St. Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John; Homilies on the First Epistle of John; Soliloquies by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Tractate XVIII. Chapter V. 19 1. John the evangelist, among his fellows and companions the other evangelists, received this special and peculiar gift from the Lord (on whose breast he reclined at the feast, hereby to signify that he was drinking deeper secrets from His inmost heart), to utter those things concerning the Son of God which may perhaps rouse the attentive minds of the little ones,…