 | Charles John Vaughan - 1880 - 832 pages
...hope in which he counsels meekness to the Christian in his dealing with insolent gainsayers, " will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,...recover themselves out of the snare of the devil." And when St. Peter would reconcile his readers to the long delay of Christ's Advent for Judgment, as... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1881 - 392 pages
...to teach, patient ; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are led captive by him at his will." The apostle Peter also lays stress on the power of the godly life... | |
 | Henrietta Lee Palmer - 1881 - 462 pages
...forcible figure, represents the great Enemy as a mighty hunter, and indicates the only means by which "they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive [taken alive, marginal reading] by him at his will" (2 Tim. ii. 26). The earliest reference to the... | |
 | 1881 - 780 pages
...oppose themselves " — and God giving to the heathen " repentance unto the knowledge of the truth," that they may " recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by the Lord's servant unto the will of God" ES LONG'S EASTERN PROVERBS. EASTEBN... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1882 - 144 pages
...acknowledging of the truth, the truth as it is in Jesus, the truth that is according to godliness, that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil. Let those that are as sheep going astray return to Jesus Christ, the Shepherd and Bishop of their souls.... | |
 | 1884 - 652 pages
...pose themselves; 'if God peradventure will give them repentance wto the acknowledging of the truth; 26 And that they may »recover themselves >' out of the snare of the devil, who are г taken taptive by him at his will. CHAPTER III. THIS know also, that «in the last days perilous... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1884 - 664 pages
...carrying out for the future the will of God. The rendering of the whole verse would be as follows : " And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil — being held captive by him — to do His (God's) will." It must be remembered that the first prononn... | |
 | 1888 - 600 pages
...to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are held captive by him at his will." 1 So then be neither consenting to < Eph. vn lt Cot. x. 1а. 7 3... | |
 | 1888 - 642 pages
...to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;...themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are held captive by him at his will." ' So then be neither consenting to - Matt. xi. • * Eph. v. it.... | |
 | Thomas Munnell - 1888 - 308 pages
...but the last and severest act of church penalty, but is merely disciplinary, ministered in the hope " that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil ; " and for the- church to stand off and let Satan have his own way with them, is a piece of insensate... | |
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And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover... 
