Peter the ApostleHarper, 1877 |
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... Jewish hands , and the civil authority had come to be exercised by those who were the puppets of the Roman emperor . Even the office of the high - priest had lost its prestige , and men were promoted to it for no other reason than that ...
... Jewish hands , and the civil authority had come to be exercised by those who were the puppets of the Roman emperor . Even the office of the high - priest had lost its prestige , and men were promoted to it for no other reason than that ...
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... Jew brought up under the Mosaic law , but a priest , or at least the son of a priest who officiated at the altar , this language in his lips could have but one mean- ing . It indicated that Jesus Christ was to be the great antetype of ...
... Jew brought up under the Mosaic law , but a priest , or at least the son of a priest who officiated at the altar , this language in his lips could have but one mean- ing . It indicated that Jesus Christ was to be the great antetype of ...
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... Jewish boys , receiving no better education than that which was common among the great body of the people . As they grew up , they gave themselves to the work of fishing , which was indeed , as its name ( literally , the house of fish ) ...
... Jewish boys , receiving no better education than that which was common among the great body of the people . As they grew up , they gave themselves to the work of fishing , which was indeed , as its name ( literally , the house of fish ) ...
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... Jews , " was one of the means used by the Spirit in leading the penitent thief to present the prayer , " Lord , remember me , when thou comest into thy kingdom . " But that is not his ordinary method . Usually he employs one who is ...
... Jews , " was one of the means used by the Spirit in leading the penitent thief to present the prayer , " Lord , remember me , when thou comest into thy kingdom . " But that is not his ordinary method . Usually he employs one who is ...
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... Jews like them a " hard saying . " They had been ac- customed to plume themselves on being Abraham's children . They supposed that , as the descendants of the Father of the Faithful , they already had everlasting life ; and when they ...
... Jews like them a " hard saying . " They had been ac- customed to plume themselves on being Abraham's children . They supposed that , as the descendants of the Father of the Faithful , they already had everlasting life ; and when they ...
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Page 135 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 227 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 326 - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 130 - So after he had washed their feet and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them ; Know ye what I have done to you ? Ye call me Master and Lord ; and ye say well ; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 6 - There is not a single thought in the volume that does not contribute in some measure to the formation of a true gentleman.
Page 55 - And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid ; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Page 346 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 343 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 215 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them, that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common.
Page 67 - Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.