 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - Church history - 1823 - 524 pages
...difficulties which arose out of this new system. " For when the number of disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...is not reason that we should leave the word of God to serve tables." Upon which seven men whose names arc mentioned, were appointed to the particular... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1823 - 570 pages
...DEACONS. ACTS vi. 1 — 6. — And in those Jays, when the number of the disciples were multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason, that tee should leave the word of God and seroe tables. Wherefore, brethren, look you out among you seven... | |
 | David Jennings - Bible - 1823 - 654 pages
...did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," chap, ii, 46. And when it is said, that " the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto...we should leave the word of God, and serve tables," chap. vi, 2, he supposes the tables mean these love feasts : which expression, I think, primarily refers... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 362 pages
...the sixth chapter of the Acts. " And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...their widows were neglected in the daily ministration" It appears that from the first formation of the Christian church, provision was made out of the public... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...own power ? why hast thou ? &c. — Acts v. 1 — 4. When the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. Whereupon the church chose deacons to look to this matter. — Acts vi. 1-6. The disciples, every man... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 462 pages
...VI. Stephen accused of blasphemy. AND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...own power ? why hast thou ? &c. — Acts v. 1 — 4. When the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. Whereupon the church chose deacons to look to this matter. — Acts vi. 1-6. The disciples, every man... | |
 | David Bowker Wells - 1824 - 226 pages
...was an artifice ACTS vi. 1 — 5. And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that... | |
 | John David Macbride - Bible - 1824 - 246 pages
...distinction between them and the Jews of Palestine, marked in the book of Acts, in which we read that there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected, and for these there is a peculiar word in the original 'EAAXHOT*<,* Hellenizing or Grecianizing, the... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1824 - 602 pages
...of this murmuring, the apostles summoned the church together, and addressed them, as in the text : ' It is not reason, that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.' If the business of serving tables had been already committed to deacons, as the proper and known officers,... | |
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JTTL.ND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 
