 | Catholic Church - 1815 - 738 pages
...high titled captivity captive: he gave gifts to men. Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the...earth. He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets,... | |
 | Peter GANDOLPHY - 1815 - 552 pages
...high he led captivity captive ; he gave gifts to men. Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the...earth. He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets,... | |
 | Alexander Murray (Schoolmaster) - God - 1815 - 564 pages
...that cometh from heaven is above all.* JESUS knowing that he came from GOD, and was going: to GOD.f Now that he ascended, what is it, but that he also...descended first into the lower parts of the earth. J To those texts may be added what the apostle says, " The first man is of the earth, earthly; the... | |
 | Jean Calvin, John Allen - Reformed Church - 1816 - 580 pages
...Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ....that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some,... | |
 | William Paley - 1816 - 396 pages
...captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first unto the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is...that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles," &c. The other appears, chap. v. 12 — 15, at the word... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
..." unto men." (Now (b)> that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the i o. lower parts of the earth ? He that descended is the...that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill ii. all things.) And he gave some, apostles (r); and some, prophets; and some, evangelists ; and... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Trinity - 1816 - 510 pages
...captive, thou hast received " gifts for men." — Eph. iv. 7, 8. " But unto every one of " us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of " Christ....Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on " high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." — According to the Psalmist, it was GOD, JEHOVAH,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...highest heaven, or the heaven of heavens : a place beyond all the visible heavens. Eph. iv. 9, 10. " Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also...same also that ascended up far above all heavens." This is the same which the apostle calls the third heaven, 2 Cor. xii. 2 ; reckoning the aerial heaven... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Unitarianism - 1817 - 384 pages
...active persevering benevolence, it is unnecessary to remark. It speaks for itself. XIV. Ephes. iv. 9. " Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth ?" " That is," says archbishop Newcome, " he descended into the grave." Psalm Ixiii. 9, " They that... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - Unitarianism - 1818 - 238 pages
...literally interpreted, for the purpose of identifying Christ with the Supreme God. So in Ephes. iv. 8, " Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high he...that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill [or fulfil] all things :) And he gf.ve some, apostles : and some, prophets : and some, evangelists."... | |
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Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth ? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things. 
