The General epistle of st. James, with notes and intr. by E.H. Plumptre |
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... answers have been given to that question . ( 1 ) We have the view that the " brethren of the Lord " were the sons of Joseph and of Mary , and therefore His younger brothers . This has in its favour , the common and natural , though not ...
... answers have been given to that question . ( 1 ) We have the view that the " brethren of the Lord " were the sons of Joseph and of Mary , and therefore His younger brothers . This has in its favour , the common and natural , though not ...
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... Galatians ) , and maintained as against the third hypothesis now to be men- tioned , with arguments which seem to the present writer to admit of no satisfactory answer . ( 3 ) Lastly , there is the theory already INTRODUCTION . 15.
... Galatians ) , and maintained as against the third hypothesis now to be men- tioned , with arguments which seem to the present writer to admit of no satisfactory answer . ( 3 ) Lastly , there is the theory already INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... answered with a loud voice : ' Why ask ye me concerning Jesus the Son of man ? He hath sat down in Heaven on the right hand of the Great Power , and is about to come upon the clouds of Heaven . ' And when many were fully persuaded , and ...
... answered with a loud voice : ' Why ask ye me concerning Jesus the Son of man ? He hath sat down in Heaven on the right hand of the Great Power , and is about to come upon the clouds of Heaven . ' And when many were fully persuaded , and ...
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... answered . Without it , the No excludes the Yes , which yet the man will not quite abandon . of the Lord ] It is a ... answer to prayer . Possibly , however , the word was used without the thought of a distinction between the Divine ...
... answered . Without it , the No excludes the Yes , which yet the man will not quite abandon . of the Lord ] It is a ... answer to prayer . Possibly , however , the word was used without the thought of a distinction between the Divine ...
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... answers to " no sooner , " and the verbs are throughout in the past tense as in a narrative . It is as though St James were using the form not of a similitude , but of a parable , apparently not without a reminiscence of some features ...
... answers to " no sooner , " and the verbs are throughout in the past tense as in a narrative . It is as though St James were using the form not of a similitude , but of a parable , apparently not without a reminiscence of some features ...
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17 Paternoster Row Acts xv adjective Alphæus Apostles believe better MSS brethren brother Cambridge Warehouse Christ Christian Church Circumcision Clement of Rome Clôpas cloth Comp condemnation Council of Jerusalem Demy 8vo Demy Octavo disciples Divine Ecclus Edited emphatic English version envy Epistle evil faith Fellow of St Fellow of Trinity Gentile give Gospel Greek word hath Hebrew Holy implies inference Israel Jerusalem Jewish Jews John Joseph Judæa late Fellow Literally Lord's Luke man's Mark Matt meaning nature P. G. TAIT parallel Paul's perhaps Pharisees prayer Price probably Professor promise prophets reference rich righteous sapiential books Scripture sense shew sins son of Zebedee soul speaks Spirit St Catharine's College St James St James's St John's College St Paul St Peter thou thought Trinity College true truth University of Cambridge unto verb verse Wisd wisdom writer xviii Zebedee
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Page 57 - Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
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 79 - Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
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 60 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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 95 - Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 83 - Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter ? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries ? either a vine, figs ? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Page 89 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.