The Acts of the Apostles: Or, The History of the Church in the Apostolic Age, Volum 2

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T. and T. Clark, 1854

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Side 98 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more ; and unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law...
Side 70 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellow ship with devils.
Side 70 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Side 189 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Side 447 - Humour of a kind most rare at all times, and especially in the present day. runs through every page, and passages of true poetry and delicious versification prevent the continual play of sarcasm from becoming tedious."— Literary Gasette.
Side 121 - And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned, and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
Side 157 - This is a narrow, naked ridge of limestone rock, rising gradually from the northern end, and terminating abruptly on the south, over against the west end of the Acropolis, from which it bears about north ; being separated from it by an elevated valley. This southern end is fifty or sixty feet above the said valley ; though yet mncb, lower than the Acropolis.
Side 450 - Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers' — a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge.
Side 369 - ... not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Side 157 - Acropolis with its wonders of Grecian art ; and beneath him, on his left, the majestic Theseium, the earliest and still most perfect of Athenian structures ; while all around other temples and altars filled the whole city. Yet here, amid all these objects of which the Athenians were so proud, Paul hesitated not to exclaim : " God, who made the world and all things that are therein,- — He being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...

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