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... picture in which the ugliest features are not wanting by the side of the most pleasing and sympathetic . Amongst the former one would reckon the preference given to the negative avoidance of sin over the positive doing of good , the ...
... picture in which the ugliest features are not wanting by the side of the most pleasing and sympathetic . Amongst the former one would reckon the preference given to the negative avoidance of sin over the positive doing of good , the ...
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... pictures the kingdom of God is always conceived of as a political organization , in opposition to the kingdoms of the rulers of this earth and of the demons . It is placed upon the earth , or , with greater particularity , in Palestine ...
... pictures the kingdom of God is always conceived of as a political organization , in opposition to the kingdoms of the rulers of this earth and of the demons . It is placed upon the earth , or , with greater particularity , in Palestine ...
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... picture is the product of the idea of the world and of the psychology current in antiquity , and it is only in connection with them that it is endowed with any vitality . And so the doubt will arise whether it was really Jesus Himself ...
... picture is the product of the idea of the world and of the psychology current in antiquity , and it is only in connection with them that it is endowed with any vitality . And so the doubt will arise whether it was really Jesus Himself ...
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... the naïveté of the whole picture . The entire harmlessness and innocence of Jesus are reflected in the simplicity of His expectations . For Jesus the earthly and the simply human are entirely free from any 58 THE RISE OF THE RELIGION.
... the naïveté of the whole picture . The entire harmlessness and innocence of Jesus are reflected in the simplicity of His expectations . For Jesus the earthly and the simply human are entirely free from any 58 THE RISE OF THE RELIGION.
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... picture . That is why we are told nothing of the city , the length and the breadth and the height of which are equal , and the streets of which are of gold . But what an entire misunderstanding it is of Jesus when emphasis is laid , as ...
... picture . That is why we are told nothing of the city , the length and the breadth and the height of which are equal , and the streets of which are of gold . But what an entire misunderstanding it is of Jesus when emphasis is laid , as ...
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Page 383 - He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.
Page 172 - Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
Page 278 - I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me : and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Page 160 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 337 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
Page 160 - when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 241 - But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Page 285 - For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Page 171 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 170 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.