 When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame,...  Missionary Review of the World - Page 4331902Full view - About this book
 | Lant Carpenter - Bible - 1838 - 504 pages
...and he that liumbleth himself shall be exalted." " And he said also to him that tmd invited him, " When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor tin/ rich neighbours ; lest they also invite thee again, and a recoin pence be... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1839 - 616 pages
...corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal : but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." " When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy...neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors ; lest they bid thee again and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed,... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1839 - 636 pages
...corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal : but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." " When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy...neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors ; lest they bid thee again and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed,... | |
 | J. G. F - 1839 - 430 pages
...especially, let the admonition of our merciful Lord have its due influence on our hearts and actions. " When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy...nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbours, lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee ; but when thou makest a feast,... | |
 | Matthew Blagden Hale (Bishop of Perth, Australia.) - 1839 - 444 pages
...words of our blessed Lord when he would rebuke the master of the feast, whose guest he was? — ." when thou makest a dinner, or a supper, call not thy...nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours ; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast,... | |
 | Rory C. Foster, Rupert Clinton Foster - Bible - 1995 - 1446 pages
...finally in the day of judgment by God Himself. Hospitality "And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends . . . bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind" (vv. 12, 13). The conduct of the guests had stirred... | |
 | William Langland - Literary Collections - 1999 - 308 pages
...lords more than the Lord of bliss. And He exhorts us, through His evangelist, that when we hold feasts (When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy...nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours)24 — But we should invite the unfortunate, the deformed, and the poor: For your friends... | |
 | Religion - 1984 - 266 pages
...Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."— Matt. 22:31,32. On another occasion Christ said: "When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call...nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast,... | |
 | Albert Schrauwers - Social Science - 2000 - 310 pages
...discussed in chapter 4. Marriage, Kinship, and Posintuwu Networks Then said he also to him that bade him. When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy...nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours: lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast,... | |
 | Voltaire - History - 2000 - 192 pages
...and dragged by the nose in order to enter the bosom of the Church? Jesus says in the same parable, 'When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy rich kinsmen.''-14 Has anyone ever inferred from this that it is quite wrong to dine with one's... | |
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