 | Catholic Church - 1815 - 738 pages
...high titled captivity captive: he gave gifts to men. Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the...earth. He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets,... | |
 | Alexander Murray (Schoolmaster) - 1815 - 564 pages
...that cometh from heaven is above all.* JESUS knowing that he came from GOD, and was going: to GOD.f Now that he ascended, what is it, but that he also...descended first into the lower parts of the earth. J To those texts may be added what the apostle says, " The first man is of the earth, earthly; the... | |
 | Peter GANDOLPHY - 1815 - 552 pages
...high he led captivity captive ; he gave gifts to men. Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the...earth. He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets,... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. He that i>'scended is the same also that ascended up far. above all heavens, that he might fill all things. Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,... | |
 | 1815 - 604 pages
...anguish. from the dead?' 'Nov. ," says this same apostle in another place, speaking of Christ, 'that l> ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower part* of the earth.'' Suppose then we grant that most of the passages on the subject, describe the... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 580 pages
...is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith,...all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints,... | |
 | William Paley - 1816 - 396 pages
...captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first unto the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is...might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles," &c. The other appears, chap. v. 12 — 15, at the word light : " For it is a shame even to speak of... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1816 - 510 pages
...received " gifts for men." — Eph. iv. 7, 8. " But unto every one of " us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of " Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on " high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." — According to the Psalmist, it was GOD, JEHOVAH,... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...When " he ascended up on high, he led «* captivity captive, and gave gifts 9. " unto men." (Now (b)> that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the i o. lower parts of the earth ? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 pages
...highest heaven, or the heaven of heavens : a place beyond all the visible heavens. Eph. iv. 9, 10. " Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also...same also that ascended up far above all heavens." This is the same which the apostle calls the third heaven, 2 Cor. xii. 2 ; reckoning the aerial heaven... | |
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Wherefore he saith; when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth ? He that descended is the same also that ascended... 
