 | Presbyterianism - 1826 - 410 pages
...peculiar propriety, receive the title we have placed at the head of this article. 1 РЕТЕП, iv. 3. "For the time past of our life may suffice us, to have wrought the will of the Gentiles." The past may suffice ,• there is a figure in that,* meaning much more than the words express: It... | |
 | Jerom Alley - Apologetics - 1826 - 786 pages
...Corinth. Strabo, lib. viii. p. 581 ; lib. xii. p. 837. Well might Saint Peter exclaim, that " the Gentiles walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries'." t Pet. iv. 3, 4 ; and even the indignant fervour of Saint Paul has not condemned the rites to which... | |
 | Jeremiah Jones - Bible - 1827 - 406 pages
...to have been a Gentile too, because he reckons himself among idolaters, 1 Pet. iv. 3. where he says, For the time past of our life may suffice us to have...revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. This ra Upo TW nfteit •xiefiuea.i <ry ©Iw, nv }.arpttat, otxof f/§A»X0xa-rfS/a (legendlim vp.w... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 1 Peter iv. 3. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have...revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. A 2 Kings ix.' 30. And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. and she painted her face,... | |
 | William Wake - Catechisms, English - 1827 - 454 pages
...be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have...of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, htsts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. 6. Q. Was adultery the only... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, do. iv. 3 : For the time past of our life may suffice us to have...of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, Justs, excess of wine, 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will p judge the world in... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...decline a conformity with them. Thus St. Peter, referring to the prevailing customs of heathens : " For the time past of our life may suffice us to have...of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries : wherein they think it strange,... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...lusts of men, e but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may f suffice us to have e wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in...revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries : 4 Wherein they think it h strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot,1 J speaking... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - Theology - 1872 - 466 pages
...no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have...wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousuess, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries."1 After... | |
 | Cedric C. Brown - Drama - 1985 - 246 pages
...which might almost serve as text for the debate in the masque about the use of the gifts of nature: For the time past of our life may suffice us to have...lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquettings [komois, potois] , and abominable idolatories. Wherein they think it strange that we walk... | |
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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries... 
