| Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not" " In which are some things hard to be understood, which...that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 468 pages
...consideration, taken from what follows our text, ver. 15. 16. "Even as our beloved brother Paul also speaks of these things, in which are some things hard to...which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest unto their own destruction." What are these things hard to be understood? Many interpreters, ancient... | |
| James Wilson - Calvinism - 1814 - 342 pages
...the long suffering of our Lord is salva" tion ; even as our beloved brother Paul, also, ac" cording to the wisdom given unto him, hath written "unto you;...unstable wrest, as they do also the other scrip"tures, to their own destruction." 2 Epistle in, 15, 16. That Peter here refcred very particularly to Romans... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1814 - 518 pages
...EVEN AS OUR BELOVED BROTHER PAUL, ALSO, ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM GIVEN UNTO HIM, HATH WRITTEN UNTO TOO, AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE...THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD, WHICH THEY THAT ARE UNLEARKED AND UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES, UNTO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION. THIS... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...Paul, who wrote " according to the wisdom given unto him," at that time, the apostle Peter discovered " some things hard to be understood, which they that...unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, (not the epistolary writings) unto their own destruction." It would be well if this particular discrimination... | |
| Thomas Burgess - Church history - 1815 - 372 pages
...Peter's supremacy, is not warranted by any thing that St. Peter says of himself, or of the * " And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation...things ; in which are some things hard to be understood (from the spiritual nature of the subjects,) which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1815 - 446 pages
...all. SERMON XI. 2 PETER in. 15, AS OUH BELOVED BROTHER PAUL, ALSO, ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM GIVHN CNTO HIM, HATH WRITTEN UNTO YOU, AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES,...UNLEARNED AND UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHEH SCRIPTURES, UNTO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION. THIS passage is a remarkable testimony of one apostle... | |
| English literature - 1815 - 606 pages
...arises solely from the antiquity of our own translation. The passage correctly translated runs thus : " Even as our beloved Brother Paul, also, according...Epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which things," (sv oic, not svai;, scilicet ra-iroxauj), viz. in the coming of the day of the Lord, in the... | |
| Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...acknowledges this to be the case. Hear what he says on this subject. " And account that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother...according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto yon ; as also in all his epistles, speaking iu them of these things ; in which are some things hard... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 644 pages
...an epistle,' does, and must signify, ' in this epistle.' 5. 2 Pet. iii. 15, 16. " And account,'that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation : even...Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, has written unto you." Hence it is argued, that a St. Paul wrote several letters to the dispersed Jews,... | |
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