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Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
Celibacy is the renunciation of marriage implicitly or explicitly made, for the more perfect observance of chastity, by all those who receive the Sacrament of Orders in any of the higher grades.
Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 11 Of the Final State of the Saints in Heaven. There is a state of happiness, which the spirits, or souls, of just men enter into immediately after the separation of them from the body; of which we have treated in a preceding chapter.
Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. by Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
SHOP TILLOTSON’s Sermons. *** The Numerical Letters denote the Volumes, the Figures the Pages. A. ABOMINATION of desolation, what meant by it, ix. 503. Abraham, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, what the expression denotes, ii.
Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. by Wernle, Paul (1872-1939)
ST PAUL knew that he was called to be a missionary to the Gentiles. External circumstances favoured this conviction. He himself was a Jew of the dispersion, a seasoned traveller accustomed from his earliest years to the life of the Greek towns.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 57: 1911 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"And it shall be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." 1 Kings 17:4. WHAT a mighty master of the art of prayer was Elijah the Tishbite! He was one of those who had the power to shut up Heaven so that it did not rain.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 45: 1899 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The head, even Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love." Ephesians 4:15,16.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Mark by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
He looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts.’—Mark iii. 5. Our Lord goes into the synagogue at Capernaum, where He had already wrought more than one miracle, and there He finds an object for His healing power, in a poor man with a withered hand; and also a little knot of His enemies.
Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah, Volume I by Ball, Charles James (1851-1924)
A priest by birth, Jeremiah became a prophet by the special call of God. His priestly origin implies a good literary training, in times when literature was largely in the hands of the priests.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 15: 1869 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
The Eye—a Similitude A sermon (No. 904) Delivered by C.H.SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Keep me as the apple of the eye."- Psalm 17:8. THIS prayer is full of meaning and is the outflow of a well-instructed mind.
Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. by Wace, Henry (1836-1924)
Theodoretus (2), bp. of Cyrrhus, or Cyrus, in the province of Euphratensis, was born at Antioch probably c. 393 (Tillemont). His parents held a high position at Antioch.