Commentary on the Gospels: Adapted Expressly for Preachers and Students, Volume 2

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T. and T. Clark, 1848
 

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Page 43 - Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
Page 19 - And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. 13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles...
Page 15 - Pertaining to the gout. Asphyxia. The state of the body, during life, in which the pulsation of the heart and arteries cannot be perceived.
Page 74 - John's baptism was with a creature, with the element of water ; for the creature could baptize but with the creature, that is, John with water ; and...
Page 84 - The same day He beheld a man working on the Sabbath, and said to him : Man if thou knowest what thou art doing blessed art thou ; but if thou knowest not thou art accursed and a transgressor of the Law.
Page 204 - Moses who was destined to deliver his people (Exod. iv. 24), so faith often in its experience finds that the heaven is of brass and seems to despise its prayers. A similar mode of dealing is here exhibited by the Saviour. The restraining of his grace, the manifestation of a treatment wholly different from what the woman may at first have expected, acted as a check usually does on power when it really exists ; the whole inherent energy of her living faith broke forth, and the Saviour suffered himself...
Page 136 - He who was the Support of the spiritual life of His people disdained not to be supported by them in the body. He was not ashamed to penetrate so far into the depths of poverty as to condescend to live upon the alms of love.
Page 221 - ... to know and to obey is implied in the very character of the believer. That the apostles, then, and their genuine spiritual successors, bore the word of truth in one direction and not in another, that they followed up their labours on one man and not on another, in this consisted the binding and the loosing. The whole new spiritual community which the Saviour came to found took its rise, from the apostles and their labours. No one became a Christian save through them, and thus the church through...
Page 136 - Hence, he loved with a perfect and pure love, and so permitted himself to be loved; he gave all things to men, his brethren, and received all things from them, and enjoyed thereby the pure blessings of love, which is perfect then only when it is at the same time both giving and receiving. What a feature in the picture of the Messiah ! Who could invent things such as these! He who feeds thousands by one word of his mouth, lives himself upon the bread of the poor.
Page 135 - Into the depths of poverty as to live upon the alms of love. He only fed others miraculously ; for Himself, He lived upon the love of His people. He gave all things to men. His brethren, and received all things...

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