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Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume II by Smith, George Adam (1856-1942)
We now understand, whom to regard as the Servant of the Lord. The Service of God was a commission to witness and prophesy for God upon earth, made out at first in the name of the entire nation Israel.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 29: 1883 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, and the son of Your handmaid; You have loosed my bonds." Psalm 116:16. I HAVE been wondering whether I might correctly say that I would preach, tonight, as a young man to young men.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
V.—Estimate of the Scope and Value of Jerome’s Writings. General. The writings of Jerome must be estimated not merely by their intrinsic merits, but by his historical position and influence.
Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power Thereof, According to the Word of God by Cotton, John (1585–1652)
Keyes. And an explanation of Independency. WHAT that Church is, which is the first subject of the power of the keyes, and whether this Church have an independent power in the exercise thereof, though they be made two distinct questions, yet (if candidly interpreted) they are but one.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire.
Lectures to Professing Christians by Finney, Charles Grandison (1792-1875)
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:10. In speaking from these words, I design, I. To make some remarks on the nature of love.
NPNF1-06. St. Augustine: Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Sermon LIII. [CIII. Ben.] On the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, “And a certain woman named Martha received him into her house,” etc. 1. The words of our Lord Jesus Christ which have just been read out of the Gospel, give us to understand, that there is some one thing for which we must be making,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
Whether the bodies of the saints will be impassible after the resurrection? Objection 1: It seems that the bodies of the saints will not be impassible after the resurrection.
Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by Alexander, William (1824-1911)
"If we receive the witness of men."—1 John v. 9. At an early period in the Christian Church the passage in which these words occur, was selected as a fitting Epistle for the First Sunday after Easter, when believers may be supposed to review the whole body of witness to the risen Lord and to triumph in the victory of faith.
Broken Bread by Follette, John Wright (1883-1966)
Chapter 4 The Prayers of the Prodigal I wish to share with you some of the thoughts suggested by reading once more the story of the prodigal son as told by Luke in the fifteenth chapter of his Gospel.