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... nature are , in the highest degree , precarious in their character , and that their only value lies in preparing the way for evidence of another kind . ( 4 ) The internal coincidences on which Mr Bassett next lays stress are in ...
... nature are , in the highest degree , precarious in their character , and that their only value lies in preparing the way for evidence of another kind . ( 4 ) The internal coincidences on which Mr Bassett next lays stress are in ...
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... natural tendency , where the same names abound in any dis- trict , is that the men who bear them become known by distinct forms , or by epithets attached . Primâ facie , therefore , we should expect to find the Alphæus , who is the ...
... natural tendency , where the same names abound in any dis- trict , is that the men who bear them become known by distinct forms , or by epithets attached . Primâ facie , therefore , we should expect to find the Alphæus , who is the ...
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... nature of the relationship which that name was intended to express . When these two points are settled we can pass on , without further hindrance , to what we know of the life and character of the writer . It must be admitted that the ...
... nature of the relationship which that name was intended to express . When these two points are settled we can pass on , without further hindrance , to what we know of the life and character of the writer . It must be admitted that the ...
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... natural that it should do so . Though addressed to the Twelve Tribes of the Dispersion , it does not follow that any very effectual measures were taken to secure its reaching them . And so far as copies did find their way to distant ...
... natural that it should do so . Though addressed to the Twelve Tribes of the Dispersion , it does not follow that any very effectual measures were taken to secure its reaching them . And so far as copies did find their way to distant ...
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... natural tendency to claim an Apostolic authority for any fragment of the Apostolic age , may well be looked on as outweighing the conjecture of a Syrian transcriber in the 9th century who yielded to that tendency , or the scarcely less ...
... natural tendency to claim an Apostolic authority for any fragment of the Apostolic age , may well be looked on as outweighing the conjecture of a Syrian transcriber in the 9th century who yielded to that tendency , or the scarcely less ...
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Page 53 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth ; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Page 86 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace...
Page 101 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 97 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 73 - Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar ? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Page 98 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton ; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Page 61 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 80 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 92 - Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners ; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.