| John James Blunt - Bible - 1829 - 140 pages
...Mark. XXII. ACTS, vi. 1. — " 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... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1829 - 550 pages
...poor officially. Acts vi. 1 — 4. 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 [fleurie] ministration. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said,... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1829 - 572 pages
...poor officially. Acts vi. 1 — 4. 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 [¡'¡axât»] ministration. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said,... | |
| Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...apostles did not deem it meet even to distribute a portion of the bounty of the church among widows. They said, " It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables" — that we should engage in these secular things. But " we will give ourselves continually to prayer,... | |
| 1829 - 760 pages
...for there was an appeal to their authority, rather than a complaint of their conduct. The words, " it is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables," imply that the Apostles neither had charged themselves with the onerous duties of the daily distribution,... | |
| John James Blunt - Bible - 1829 - 146 pages
...those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, 10 there arose a murmuring of the Grecicms against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.''' IN the first section, I found an instance of consistency without design in this passage, on comparing... | |
| Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1830 - 566 pages
...Acri vi. 1 — 6. — Jiml in thote day*, when the number of the ducipluuert multiplied, there aron a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because...called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and taid, It it not reason, that we should lease the word of Ood and serve tablet. Wherefore, brethren,... | |
| Samuel Miller - Clergy - 1830 - 556 pages
...following words, Acts vi. 1—6. And in those days, when the jiumbefofthe disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...ministration. Then the. twelve called the multitude nf the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that toe should leave the word of God andserve... | |
| William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 358 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...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 Brewster - Bible - 1830 - 602 pages
...themselves with the most spiritual engagements, we find, even in these early days of the Church, that " there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the...widows were neglected in the daily ministration." Alas! that party prejudices should ever find a refuge among the disciples of so holy a religion ! that... | |
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