 Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.  De Natura Boni - Page 83by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1955 - 281 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Kenelm Vaughan - 1894 - 974 pages
...shall call upon Me and Je 29, 12 Fy™ you shall go ; and you shall pray to Me, and I will hear you. Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. [Wisdom] hath not lieen heard of in the Land of Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman. Mk 11,... | |
 | 1895 - 430 pages
...man shall take from you. FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER. EPIST. St. James i. 17-21. — Dearly beloved : Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above,...Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration. For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that he might be... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1895 - 554 pages
...No; temptation cannot come from God, but every good gift and every morally perfect gift and bounty is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there cannot be, as in the heavenly bodies, any variation, or shadow cast by turning. 18. So fax from tempting... | |
 | Willibald Beyschlag - 1895 - 552 pages
...same idea which James expresses (i. 17) in the words, " Every good and perfect gift cometh from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning." God is the eternally good, the ethically perfect being. Against this it could only... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1896 - 2120 pages
...Others as on Second Sunday, p. 712. EPISTLE. James i. 17-21. Dearly Beloved : — Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow of alteration. For of His own will He hath begotten us by the word of... | |
 | Joseph Bryant Rotherham - 1896 - 552 pages
...brings forth death.* 16Be not deceived, my brethren beloved! l7 Every good giving and every complete gift is from above, coming down from the Father of °lights, with whom does not exist alternation or shadow of turning, ls Because so minded, he brought us forth with... | |
 | Frédéric Ozanam - 1897 - 536 pages
...General Classification of Human Knowledge.- St. Bonaventura, " de Reductione artiumad Theologiam." 1 " Every best gift, and every -perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the FatDer of lights." Thus speaks the Apostle. St. James ; nnd these words, which point out the source... | |
 | Edmund G. Gardner - 1898 - 332 pages
...refers to the texts in its first chapter : " Let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly", and "Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. " Beatrice's appeal to St. James to make Hope resound in Heaven is almost, as it were, to introduce... | |
 | 1898 - 450 pages
...transgression, when completed, bringeth forth death. 9 Do not err, my beloved brethren ; every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow of turning. 10 Of his own free will he begot us through the word of truth,... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1899 - 368 pages
...conscience, faith, hope, love, sacrifice, worship — these and the like are gifts from God. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights. Our True Life is a Sacred Trading. — Again, our true life is a sacred trading. " Trade... | |
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