 | William Latta McCalla - 1825 - 324 pages
...pronounced in the form of interrogation. In the same spirit of this denunciation of our Saviour,b Peter says, "if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear ?" The foregoing question tells us that they will appear in hell ; from which the impossibility... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1845 - 564 pages
...is the next citation: " Give all diligence to make your culling and election sure." So, when Peter, says, " If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner /ippear," he does not mean that to live the life which leads to heaven, or so as to be reckoned... | |
 | Reuben Weiser - 1848 - 842 pages
...Phil. 2d chapter, admonishes us ' to work out our salvation with fear and trembling,' and St. Peter says, ' if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear ?' Yea, so narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, that God through the holy prophets... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1851 - 554 pages
...is the next citation : " Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure." So, when Peter, says, " If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear," he does not mean that to live the life which leads to heaven, or so as to be reckoned... | |
 | 1853 - 400 pages
...brethren, there is one text of Scripture which ought to make you think; and that is, where the Apostle says, " If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" I do not want to describe your carelessness, I would not take up your time with that... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1860 - 554 pages
...is the next citation : " Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure." So, when Peter, says, " If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear," he does not mean that to live the life which leads to heaven, or so as to be reckoned... | |
 | John Middleton Hare (the Elder.) - 1862 - 306 pages
...counsels a strict adherence to the oracles of God, and sets repeated examples of that method. When he says, "If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear ?" we cannot but regard him as thinking of his own narrow escape ; so, likewise, when... | |
 | Philip Charles Soulbien Desprez - 1865 - 388 pages
...Paul writes, " we shall be saved from (the) wrath through him " (Rom. v. 9) ; and of which St. Peter says, " If the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" (1 Pet. iv. 18). Hence the and deliverance to his friends. It is described in Danielic... | |
 | Robert Baker Girdlestone - 1871 - 562 pages
...a presage of wrath to the wicked. The LXX rendering of these words is adopted by St. Peter, when he says, ' If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?' (1 Pet. 4. 18). ยง 4. The other word to be considered is Thamam (aon), whence the name... | |
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... which every tenet of the New Church unites to confirm. To the same purport, though without allusion to the ill consequences of an opposite conduct, is the next citation : " Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure." So, when Peter,... 