 | Thomas Gisborne - 1809 - 498 pages
...beginning / Hath bf fpoken, andJball lye not do it ? Brethren, we have not followed cunningly - drvifed1 fables, when we made known unto you. the. power and coming of our Lord Jefus Cbrift.. Knowing tie terror of the Lord, we perjuade men (d). Enquire now of the days which are goric,... | |
 | William Newcome - 1810 - 548 pages
...ye him :" upon which transaction St. Peter thus observes, " We have " not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty." At another time, when Jesus, referring to his... | |
 | John Dick - 1811 - 302 pages
...credibility of their testimony. " For we have not followed," saith the apostle Peter, " cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father, honour and... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 404 pages
...of this coming it is that St. Peter speaks, — for we have not followed cunningly-devised foblcs, when we made known unto you the POWER AND COMING of our Lord Jesus Christ. He subjoins the reason of his confidence in this SECOND COMING, that he, and the rest... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 474 pages
...Christian Religion.-^" We have not followed cunningly devised fables " (says the Apostle, ver. 1 6.) when we made known unto " you the POWER AND -COMING of our Lord Jesus " Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his Majesty." 17. " For he received from God the Father honour... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pages
...of Scrip^. ture now under confideration : the Apoftle's reafoning to the faithful believers is this, We have not followed cunningly devifed fables, when...known unto you the POWER and COMING of our Lord Jefus Chrft, but were eye-witneffes of his MAJESTY. For he received from God the Father HONOUR and GLORY,... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pages
...me also, as of one born out of due time. 2 PETER i, 16. For tee have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. THERE is a certain degree of sublimity in which... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1815 - 644 pages
...eye-witnesses of his majesty ; for we saw his person in glory : for we have not followed cunningly de•vised fables, when we made known unto you, the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God, the Father, honour and... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pages
...VR INTERNAL MARKS OF CREDIBILITY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. For tt'tf have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his Majesty. 2 Peter, i. 16. are laying before you the arguments... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 598 pages
...behalf of himself and the rest of the apostles, when he says, We have not followed cunningly devised fables, -when we made known unto •you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but -were eye-witnesses of his Majesty, 2 Pet. i. 1 8. and, indeed, their writings discover... | |
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For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the .power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 
