...language, and the thing will suit well. This our most holy apostle saith of himself, chap, ix, 20, " Unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ;" which seems here to be done by him : but neither here nor any where else unless for edification,...

...have referred. CHAP. iv. — 4. You do not require me to teach you in what sense the apostle says, "To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews,"* and other such things in the same passage, which are to be ascribed to the compassion of pitying love,...

...example of one who had the greatest success in propagating the power of religion: 1 Cor. 9:20-23, "To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to...

...Apostle testifies in other words that he himself always observed this disposition; for when he says: "To the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews ; to those who were under the law as being under the law, though not myself under the law, that I might...

...St. Ambrose bases his argument on I Corinthians 9:19. "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more." Also see: Letters 63.70, 381. 2 1 . Mircea Eliade, The Mvth of Eternal Return, tr. William R. Trask,...

...Cor. ix, 25), he expounds to the church leaders the 'modus operandi of the successful propagandist ; "I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as...

...Christ, so that you might even say with the apostle Paul, 'Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as...

...infirmity of men he did this, let us hear what follows: " For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. To them that are under the law, I became as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the...

...perfected the art. In the 1611 King James translation of I Corinthians 9:20, Paul the Apostle says: "And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews." On that principle he ordered the circumcision of Timothy, to recommend that follower of Christ's ministry...

...without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more (I Cor. 9:16-19). Some men need to learn that the power to preach the gospel is not the same as the...