Biblical Commentary on the New Testament: Adapted Especially for Preachers and Students

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T. & T. Clark, 1849 - Bible - 431 pages
 

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Page 309 - ... sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief; even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Page 341 - Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved...
Page 113 - But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth ? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and easiest my words behind thee.
Page 350 - upholdeth all things by the word of his power*.
Page 431 - Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began...
Page 413 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Page 394 - Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you who you...
Page 311 - Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love ; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness ; yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine." — Ezek. xvi. 8. " No man can come unto me except the Father draw him." — John vi. 44. Now when the Lord. Jesus draws near to a dead, carnal sinner, and reveals to him a glimpse of his own beauty — of his face fairer than the sons of men — of his precious...
Page 427 - Ver. 17, 18. It is not until here, quite at the end of the epistle, that we find a short admonition against divisions, couched in altogether general language, which may be referred to the Judaizing party which persecuted Paul everywhere, but which wrought in Galatia especially with so pernicious effect. The circumstance of its being conceived and introduced so abruptly, and in such general terms, is most decisive evidence that the erroneous teachers in question did not actually exist in Rome, but...
Page 188 - Men are wont to say, that parables prove nothing ; nevertheless, comparisons often teach by depth of meaning infinitely more and better than all abstract arguments ; seeing they are derived from nature, the mirror of the glory of the unseen God, living demonstrations, as it were, of the Mort High God himself."— Okhmisen.

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