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... reason for judging this state of the case to be probable ? Ought we not rather to expect , that such a being , upon occasions of peculiar importance , may inter- rupt the order which he had appointed , yet , that such oc- casions should ...
... reason for judging this state of the case to be probable ? Ought we not rather to expect , that such a being , upon occasions of peculiar importance , may inter- rupt the order which he had appointed , yet , that such oc- casions should ...
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... reason , had worked them- selves into a persuasion that some signal and greatly ad- vantageous change was to be effected in the condition of their country , by the agency of a long - promised messenger from heaven . The rulers of the ...
... reason , had worked them- selves into a persuasion that some signal and greatly ad- vantageous change was to be effected in the condition of their country , by the agency of a long - promised messenger from heaven . The rulers of the ...
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... reason or authority for what he said , and contrary to the truth of the case ; or that , although Christ had never foretold any such thing , and the event would have contradicted him if he had , yet historians who lived in the age when ...
... reason or authority for what he said , and contrary to the truth of the case ; or that , although Christ had never foretold any such thing , and the event would have contradicted him if he had , yet historians who lived in the age when ...
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... reason , why the Jewish rulers did not , at this time , think it prudent to proceed to greater extremities . It was not long , however , before the enemies of the institution found means to represent it to the people as tending to ...
... reason , why the Jewish rulers did not , at this time , think it prudent to proceed to greater extremities . It was not long , however , before the enemies of the institution found means to represent it to the people as tending to ...
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... reason , not mentioned , perhaps not known , but probably connected with the civil history of the Jews , or with some danger † which engrossed the public attention , an intermission about this time took place in the sufferings of the ...
... reason , not mentioned , perhaps not known , but probably connected with the civil history of the Jews , or with some danger † which engrossed the public attention , an intermission about this time took place in the sufferings of the ...
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Page 192 - And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, 'Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Page 201 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 159 - As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Page 171 - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently...
Page 30 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord Is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 266 - And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep ; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Page 42 - I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 153 - So shall he sprinkle many nations ; The kings shall shut their mouths at him : For that which had not been told them shall they see; And that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Page 153 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 167 - But be not ye called Rabbi : for one is your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters : for one is your Master, even Christ.