Testimonies, Volume 1University Press, 1916 - 150 pages |
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Page 18 - Unto you therefore which believe he is precious : but unto them which be disobedient, the Stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient : whereunto also they were appointed.
Page 75 - Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Page 28 - Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling; even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence : and he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
Page 46 - Rejoice greatly, 0 daughter of Zion ; shout, 0 daughter of Jerusalem ; behold, thy King cometh unto thee : he is just, and having salvation ; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
Page 50 - ... answered, Lord, how shall I have a son, since a man hath not touched me ? The angel said, So God createth that which he pleaseth; when he decreeth a thing, he only saith unto it, Be...
Page 76 - Cyprianus, quoniam et magnam sibi gloriam ex artis oratoriae professione quaesierat et ad modum multa conscripsit in suo genere miranda. Erat enim ingenio facili copioso suavi et, quae sermonis maxima est virtus, aperto, ut discernere non queas, utrumne ornatior in eloquendo an felicior in explicando an potentior in persuadendo fuerit.
Page 82 - Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: and at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss ; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house ? And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.
Page 30 - It is morally certain that St Peter borrowed from St Paul those peculiarities in his mode of quoting the passage which he has in common with him ; and hardly less so that St Paul was not following any antecedent version other than the LXX, but freely adapting the LXX itself.
Page 45 - When did the eyes of the blind see, and the ears of the deaf hear, and the feet of the lame come on like a hart, and the tongues of the dumb speak plainly, save when the Christ appeared to us?
Page 66 - Although this we confess, (if we are fools therein, yet as fools bear with us,) we do expect to love God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves.