2 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:11) to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation. In the compact between St. Paul and the apostles of the circumcision referred to in Galatians 2:1-7, it was agreed that he should confine his...
"Silent was I, yet desire Was painted in my looks; and thus I spake My wish more earnestly than language could." --Paradiso, iv. 10-12. The elder asks the question which he knows St. John would fain ask. These who are clothed in white robes, who are they, and whence came they?
I was surprised to learn that these sacred Christian writings were not immediately compiled into an “official” sacred library as they were written. Also, all did not accept their validity equally. How likely is it that the “superfine apostles” in Corinth (who seem to have had positions ...
Mal.3:16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day...
If the Bible had anything in it that was opposed to reason, or to our sense of right, then, perhaps, we might think that it was like all the books in the world that are written merely by men. Books that are only human, like merely human lives, have in them a great deal that is...
“For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders,gossip, arrogance, disturbances” (2 Corinthians 12:20). ...
Long before we moved our potted plants to the garage to protect them from the cold of winter, every sign of life was gone from the pot. Parts of the soil had cratered from being knocked over in the wind. I stuck it in the garage with the rest of the plants just to get it out ...
36 As it is written:“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[j]37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] ne...
The salutary sign of the cross was planted everywhere among them, and churches of god were founded everywhere. They were built and erected, to the number of eighty-six, with great diligence and zeal, in the high mountains and steep and in the plains, in all the places where there was ...