 | 1841 - 612 sider
...varied his means of instruction according to the different circumstances and prejudices of his hearers, he became all things to all men that he might by all means save some, and in writing to the Corinthian church he says, " being crafty I caught you with guile," showing that... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - 544 sider
...virtue is but a shadow, when unaccompanied by religious affections. St. Paul, like his Divine Master, became " all things to all men," that he " might by all means save some." " Never," says an English writer,* " was man more deeply * Rev. HF Burder. versed than he, in the knowledge... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1840 - 602 sider
...a certain recourse to baits or inducements is not forhidden. St. Paul speaks of having made himself all things to all men, that he might by all means save some ; and he confesses to some of his converts, that he had caught them with guile. If it be the duty of... | |
 | 1840 - 570 sider
...a certain recourse to baits or inducements is not forbidden. St. Paul speaks of having made himself all things to all men, that he might by all means save some ; and be confesses to some of his converts, that he had caught them with guile. If it be the duty of... | |
 | David Everard Ford - 1841 - 134 sider
...and them that heard him, 1 Tim. iv. 16. The admonition was enforced by his own example, lie was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. 1 Cor. ix. 22. Should it be contended that obedience to Christ is in itself a sufficient motive to... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1841 - 324 sider
...dependence of the gospel. It may, indeed, be said that the Galatians having been heathens, St. Paul, who " became all things to all men, that he might by all means gain some," was justified in thus appearing before them indifferent to the law : and if he had confined... | |
 | Philemon Robbins Russell - 1842 - 142 sider
...with Universalism. (1.) I cannot understand why Paul should labor so hard, suffer so much, — become all things to all men that he might by all means save SOME, if all are on the road to heaven. If all are to be saved why should he suffer and labor so much to... | |
 | 1842 - 494 sider
...he might gain them that are without law ; to the weak, as weak, that he might gain the weak ; made all things to all men, that he might, by all means, save some." On the one hand, he should avoid every thing, in the manner of conducting his ministry, that would... | |
 | Francis Augustus Cox - 1842 - 464 sider
...and advice of the apostle Paul, (than whom no man was better acquainted with human nature,) "becoming all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." No person, however, could charge him with dissimulation. His temper naturally was rather unbending... | |
 | George Andrew Jacob - 1842 - 48 sider
...accursed from Christ for my brethren, niy kinsmen according to the flesh J ;" — and who was " made all things to all men that he might by all means save some § :" — yet when the very same truth was at stake which is endangered now, he " gave place by subjection,... | |
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To the weak he became as weak, that he might gain the weak : and was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. 
