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History of the Origins of Christianity. Book III. Saint Paul. by Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892).
At the same time that he took his share in the vast propaganda which gained Asia to the worship of Jesus, Paul was absorbed by the gravest pre-occupations. The care of all the Churches that he had founded, weighed upon him.
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume II by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
"Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the Church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also....
Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
CHAPTER IV THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, AS BEARING UPON THE CHRISTIAN MISSION Cp. on this Von Dobschütz's Die urchristlichen Gemeinden (1902) [translated in this library under the title of Christian Life in the Primitive Church].
Sermons of John Owen by Owen, John (1616-1683)
Sermon VI. This sermon was preached June 7, 1674, at Stadham. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. “My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer,” etc.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. by South, Robert (1634-1716)
... ; as being the direct object of an act of volition, and upon that account stamped with an higher aggravation ...
Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes. by Swete, Henry Barclay (1835-1917)
THE books which are common to the Hebrew Bible and the Alexandrian Version Following the order of The Old Testament in Greek, these are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1—4 Kingdoms (vol.
Sermons on Several Occasions by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Sermon 57 [text from the 1872 edition] On the Fall of Man “Dust thou are, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Gen. 3:19. 1. Why is there pain in the world; seeing God is “loving to every man, and his mercy is over all his works?” Because there is sin: Had there been no sin, there would have been no pain.
Miracles of Our Lord by MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
. If we allow that prayer may in any case be heard for the man himself, it almost follows that it must be heard for others. It cannot well be in accordance with the spirit of Christianity, whose essential expression lies in the sacrifice of its founder, that a man should be heard only when he prays for himself.
Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
Eph. 5:14. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. This scripture represents unto us the miserable and lamentable state of the unregenerate, as being under the power of spiritual death, which is the cause and inlet of all other miseries.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by Farrar, Frederic William (1831-1903)
CHAPTER III THE IDOL OF GOLD, AND THE FAITHFUL THREE "Every goldsmith is put to shame by his molten image: for his molten image is vanity, and there is no breath in them.