The General epistle of st. James, with notes and intr. by E.H. Plumptre |
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... rich , visiting the fatherless and the widow , accompanying the Elders of the Church when they anointed the sick with oil in the hope of their recovery , slow to judge , calming by his saintly meekness the angry passions of contending ...
... rich , visiting the fatherless and the widow , accompanying the Elders of the Church when they anointed the sick with oil in the hope of their recovery , slow to judge , calming by his saintly meekness the angry passions of contending ...
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... rich . Small as men may think this fault , it is a wilful transgression of the law of Christ by which we are to be judged ( 1—13 ) . It will profit such breakers of the Law little to say that they have maintained the faith of Israel in ...
... rich . Small as men may think this fault , it is a wilful transgression of the law of Christ by which we are to be judged ( 1—13 ) . It will profit such breakers of the Law little to say that they have maintained the faith of Israel in ...
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... rich . They little know the miseries which he foresees as close at hand , the swift judgment that is coming upon the oppressors and persecutors ( 1-7 ) . What is a thought of terror for them is , however , one of encouragement and ...
... rich . They little know the miseries which he foresees as close at hand , the swift judgment that is coming upon the oppressors and persecutors ( 1-7 ) . What is a thought of terror for them is , however , one of encouragement and ...
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... rich . The " brother " is used , as commonly in the New Testa- ΙΟ 10 alted but the rich , in that he vv . 8 , 9. ] 51 ST JAMES , I.
... rich . The " brother " is used , as commonly in the New Testa- ΙΟ 10 alted but the rich , in that he vv . 8 , 9. ] 51 ST JAMES , I.
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... rich , in that he is made low : because as the 11 flower of the grass he shall pass away . For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat , but it withereth the ment as meaning one of the brotherhood of Christ . The word Christian ...
... rich , in that he is made low : because as the 11 flower of the grass he shall pass away . For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat , but it withereth the ment as meaning one of the brotherhood of Christ . The word Christian ...
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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.