The General epistle of st. James, with notes and intr. by E.H. Plumptre |
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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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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
Popular passages
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.