 | William John Hall - 1843 - 424 pages
...given up to a punishing fire, for the benefit of the soul, according to the saying of the Lord : ' I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled ?' " On the next clause, " The people shall be as the fuel of the fire," he adds, " This is not a threat... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - Bible - 1843 - 820 pages
...people must take this time of grace, because it is a fearful thing to die without reconciliation. 49 ^[ *I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled ? 50 But ' I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I ' straitened till it be accomplished... | |
 | Theology - 1843 - 520 pages
...needlessly qualifying truth. How broadly and boldly did he state it — in what paradoxes sometimes ! " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be already kindled ?" " I came not to send peace, but a sword." How unlike was his manner in this respect to a certain... | |
 | Henry Hamlin Van Amringe - Bible - 1843 - 272 pages
...like as a FIRE, saith the Lord, and like a HAMMER, that .breaketh the rock in pieces ?"|| Christ says, "I am come to send FIRE on the earth, and what will I, if it be KINDLED ALREADY1?" ^[ His baptism is a baptism with fire. It consumes wickedness. The righteous dwell... | |
 | Henry Hamlin Van Amringe - Bible - 1843 - 272 pages
...as a FIRE, saith the Lord, and like a HAMMER, that breaketh the rock in pieces ?"|| Christ says, " I am come to send FIRE on the earth, and what will I, if it be KINDLED ALREADY?"^ His baptism is a baptism with fire. It consumes wickedness. The righteous dwell... | |
 | William Mudge - 1843 - 408 pages
...mediatorially, the emblem of fire becomes very significant and beautiful. I am come, said our Divine Lord, to send fire on the earth: and what will I if it be already kindled ? And again he asks, Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on the earth ? I tell you, Nay ; but rather... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Sermons, English - 1843 - 724 pages
...speaks of that disorganization of society, which was to attend the establishment of His kingdom. " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if • Mark i. 14, 15. Matt. xvi. 18. Luke xxii. 29, 30. Matt. xiii. 31, 32. Dan. IT. 20. 22. Mark vi.... | |
 | Jews - 1843 - 414 pages
...remarks, he said that Jesus Christ could not be " the Prince of Peace," because he himself said, " I am not come to send peace upon earth, but a sword." His arguments were chiefly borrowed from a little book which he had beside him, entitled a " Defence... | |
 | Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pages
...division and warfare which His Gospel, though meant to be a Gospel of peace, should every where produce. " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled ?.. Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell you, Nay; but rather division 1 ." With... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Bible - 1844 - 552 pages
...righteousness. Mat. 3. 12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor. Lk. 12. 49. I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled? Jn. 18. 37. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness... | |
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I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 
