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Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume I by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST, AND ITS LESSONS. "When He had said these things, as they were looking, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight."—Acts i.
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume I by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
HONESTY AND PRETENCE IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH. "And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of exhortation), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,…
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume I by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
... prove their Divine origin, and display the secret inspiration and guidance of their writers, by their thorough impartiality. If ...
Twenty-one Sermons, on a Variety of Interesting Subjects, Sentimental and Practical by Hopkins, Samuel (1721-1803)
SERMON XIV. Phil. ii. 12, 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling: for it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. by South, Robert (1634-1716)
A man that flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth a net for his feet. HE that shall set himself to fight against a custom, will find that the match is not equal; and that by speaking against a generally received practice, he only treads the dry paths of duty, without any reward or recompence, but only to be slighted for his pains.
Quiet Talks on Following The Christ by Gordon, Samuel Dickey (1859-1936)
The Parable of the Finger-Posts. Waiting is harder work than working. It takes more out of you. And it puts more into you, too, of fine-grained, steady strength, if you can stand the strain of it.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Job by Watson, Robert Alexander (1845-1921)
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH." Job speaks. Chap. xix. With simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with tender emotion.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
The name given to the subscribers (practically the whole Scottish nation) of the two Covenants, the National Covenant of 1638 and the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ezekiel by Skinner, John J. (?-1925)
One day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the Jewish colony at Tel-abib that “the city was smitten.” The rapidity with which in the East intelligence is transmitted through secret channels has often excited the surprise of European observers.
Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises by Gardner, Edmund Garratt (1869-1935)
FROM the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth century may be called the golden age of mystical literature in the vernacular. In Germany, we find Mechthild of Magdeburg (d.