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... question of origin is answered . " I the Lord create evil ! " The time is ascertained by a reference to the beginning of the chastisements of man . The end is seen in the purpose of God , who " will finish the transgression , and make ...
... question of origin is answered . " I the Lord create evil ! " The time is ascertained by a reference to the beginning of the chastisements of man . The end is seen in the purpose of God , who " will finish the transgression , and make ...
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... question among the ancient philosophers , whence sprang that moral and physical evil , which so often weakens the enjoyment and destroys the happi- ness of mankind . Being unwilling to abase human pride , by charging it on man , or to ...
... question among the ancient philosophers , whence sprang that moral and physical evil , which so often weakens the enjoyment and destroys the happi- ness of mankind . Being unwilling to abase human pride , by charging it on man , or to ...
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... question which now comes forward for con- sideration is - Was this account of satan introduced for the purpose of establishing , or was it introduced to refute such opinions ? Let satan here be consider- ed , either the evil principle ...
... question which now comes forward for con- sideration is - Was this account of satan introduced for the purpose of establishing , or was it introduced to refute such opinions ? Let satan here be consider- ed , either the evil principle ...
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... question , must be deeply imbued with the Pythagorian philosophy of metempsychosis . On no other principle can we account for a question which seems to set common sense at defiance . The highly figurative language of the Orientals , has ...
... question , must be deeply imbued with the Pythagorian philosophy of metempsychosis . On no other principle can we account for a question which seems to set common sense at defiance . The highly figurative language of the Orientals , has ...
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... questions are designed for the consideration of those who believe in purgatorial or disciplinary pains after death , as well as for the awakening of those who dream of everlasting Torments . An endless hell is useless , even according ...
... questions are designed for the consideration of those who believe in purgatorial or disciplinary pains after death , as well as for the awakening of those who dream of everlasting Torments . An endless hell is useless , even according ...
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Page 196 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 137 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts.
Page 135 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 158 - O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Page 292 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 177 - Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Page 180 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 132 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 131 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: "so the LORD alone did lead him, and there •was no strange god with him.
Page 287 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.