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... prophets , the teachers , the seven deacons , evangelists , the presbyters . PAGES 73-95 96-116 117-126 CHAPTER IX . The Development of the Church . The The enthusiastic beginning . The confession . signs of enthusiasm . The legal forms ...
... prophets , the teachers , the seven deacons , evangelists , the presbyters . PAGES 73-95 96-116 117-126 CHAPTER IX . The Development of the Church . The The enthusiastic beginning . The confession . signs of enthusiasm . The legal forms ...
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... Prophet . • The new ' average . ' St Paul's His work A final PAGES 290-320 321-340 · 341-359 The prophetic claim . Truth and fiction CHAPTER XX . The Promise . The Christian hope in the parousia . Political prophecies against Rome ...
... Prophet . • The new ' average . ' St Paul's His work A final PAGES 290-320 321-340 · 341-359 The prophetic claim . Truth and fiction CHAPTER XX . The Promise . The Christian hope in the parousia . Political prophecies against Rome ...
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... prophecy in order to convince the heathen , they presuppose the fact that their heathen adversaries attach a high value to the gift of divination . So deeply spread and so deeply rooted was the belief in ecstasy as a divinely - caused ...
... prophecy in order to convince the heathen , they presuppose the fact that their heathen adversaries attach a high value to the gift of divination . So deeply spread and so deeply rooted was the belief in ecstasy as a divinely - caused ...
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... prophets of the Old Testament . All our knowledge of God comes to us through Jesus that revealed Him . That , it is true , is a complete transcendency of the idea of God . But then we remember that St John and St Paul are theologians ...
... prophets of the Old Testament . All our knowledge of God comes to us through Jesus that revealed Him . That , it is true , is a complete transcendency of the idea of God . But then we remember that St John and St Paul are theologians ...
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... prophets and to their prophecies of the coming doom , and again to Animism , old as the human race itself , though it has been trans- formed by the dogma of retribution ; and , lastly , to possibly Persian notions of the resurrection ...
... prophets and to their prophecies of the coming doom , and again to Animism , old as the human race itself , though it has been trans- formed by the dogma of retribution ; and , lastly , to possibly Persian notions of the resurrection ...
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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.