| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...have received of us, how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. Though I might be much bold in Christ, to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and nqw also a prisoner... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thce, brother. 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ, to enjoin thee that which is convenient : 9 Yet, for love's sake, I ratlier beseech tbce, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner... | |
| William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...of the weight and dignity of his mission ; nor does he suffer Philemon for a moment to forget it: " I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient." He is careful also to recall, though obliquely, to Philemon's memory, the sacred obligation under which... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 424 pages
...saints are refreshed by ^ & avat:jEcyarrat thee, brother. (TOD, 8 Wherefore, though I 8 Ato tSoA/ljyv ev might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, manner, that his own benevolent disposition would lead him to pardon Onesimus, although he had greatly... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...of the weight and dignity of his mission ; nor does he suffer Philemon for a moment to forget it : " I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient." He is careful also to recall, though obliquely, to Philemon's memory, the sacred obligation under which... | |
| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...insinuating, where there is an intermixture of many powerful arguments. verse 8, I). " Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet for love-sake I rather beseech thee being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner... | |
| 1818 - 896 pages
...occasion, pressing upon the disciples. With Philemon he thus intercedes for Onesimus: " Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet for /ore's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner... | |
| Samuel Charles Wilks - Christianity - 1821 - 620 pages
...devout and exemplary prelate, acting in the spirit of the Apostle when, he said, " Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet for Jove's sake, I rather beseech thee." Summary or severe measures, on the contrary, often in... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 642 pages
...necessity, even that which he judged convenient ; and verifies his authority in his Epistle to Philemoni; " I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that...Now although it be true, that, in these things, the " Heb. xiii. 17. ] Philem. 8. 2 P2 Apostle had some advantages, which the bishops, in succession, had... | |
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