The Time of the Apostles, Volume 1Williams and Norgate, 1895 - Apostles |
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Page 177 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 104 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 154 - For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
Page xix - But 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 ; neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me ; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Page 110 - Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Page 153 - For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty: therefore can no defiled thing fall into her. For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness. And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets.
Page xxii - It is not I that live, but Christ that liveth in me"; he is "my" life, and to press onwards to him through death is great gain.
Page 181 - If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Page xix - In another place he says, when it pleased God to reveal his Son in me, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, or no longer took counsel of the sensuous mind, as having a higher guidance within.
Page 122 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and his name shall be called "Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace,