 | George Campbell - 1834 - 474 pages
...to had not themselves been sufficiently informed of the truth : " It seemed good to me," says he, " having had perfect understanding of all things, from the very first, to write them to thee in order, most excellent Theophiltis." But to return to the two classes into which the... | |
 | rev William Ellis - 298 pages
...believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-\vitiiesses and ministers of the word; it seemed good to me also," having sought for a perfect understanding of all things, (o write unto thee, in order, beloved reader, that... | |
 | Edward Johnstone (M.A.) - 1835 - 374 pages
...they who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of THE WORD *, delivered them unto us, it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding...of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. In the days of Herod, the king of Judsea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1799 - 434 pages
...disciples, to the apostles, and perhaps toother preachers who had gone forth to proclaim the same things. 3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding...write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, ' It seemed good.' I thought it best, or I have also determined. ' Having had perfect understanding,'... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1838 - 370 pages
...undertaken to set forth a narration of those things, which those who were eye-witnesses had declared ;" it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write." He here virtually declares, that his only motive for writing, was to establish the certainty of the... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1835 - 764 pages
...all their life-time subject to bondage 452 SERMON I. IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURE KNOWLEDGE. LUKE i. 4. That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. THREE observations naturally arise from these words: that there are some things in which all real converts... | |
 | 1835 - 664 pages
...any sufficient reason why the evangelist Luke's introduction'to his history might not be rendered, " It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus." The adverb [«>wS«v] which our translators... | |
 | Isaac Crewdson - 1835 - 170 pages
...ye have eternal lifer \ John, v. 13. " It seemed good to me —to write unto thee, in order—that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed." Luke i. 3. 4. " These things write I unto you that ye sin not." 1 John ii. 1. " These things write... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (Minister of Laxton.) - 1836 - 408 pages
...touching the king." (Ps. xlv. 1.) Luke also, at the beginning of his Gospel, thus addresses Theophilus: " It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding...those things, wherein thou hast been instructed." (Luke i. 3, 4.) And we find from St. Peter, that the prophets "enquired and searched diligently,'"... | |
 | Downside sch - 1836 - 508 pages
...believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us which were from the beginning eye-witnessas, and ministers of the word ; it seemed good to me also,...first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilns, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed."—St.... | |
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who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word ; ' it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, ' that thou mightest know the... 
