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... harvest of splendid abundance is the well - nigh certain result . I do not think that it is need- ful to settle the rival claims of the two interpretations , * inasmuch as the essential point of the author's meaning * Those who wish to ...
... harvest of splendid abundance is the well - nigh certain result . I do not think that it is need- ful to settle the rival claims of the two interpretations , * inasmuch as the essential point of the author's meaning * Those who wish to ...
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... harvest . But seed cast into the waters ! where is it ? who can trace it ? what can withhold the waters from rotting it , and burying the promise of the seed and the hope of the husbandmen in their depths ? And the seed dropped into the ...
... harvest . But seed cast into the waters ! where is it ? who can trace it ? what can withhold the waters from rotting it , and burying the promise of the seed and the hope of the husbandmen in their depths ? And the seed dropped into the ...
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... harvest . Paul plants , Apollos waters ; but God giveth the increase : but neither without Paul's planting does the harvest spring . " Be- hold , a sower went forth to sow . " The human sower is , as far as we see , the indispensable ...
... harvest . Paul plants , Apollos waters ; but God giveth the increase : but neither without Paul's planting does the harvest spring . " Be- hold , a sower went forth to sow . " The human sower is , as far as we see , the indispensable ...
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... harvest home ; but He crosses our toil with a zone of uncertainties , that we may be faithful workmen , trusting and praying as well as work- ing , and may be kept in holy and blessed dependence on Him who can lift us above all servile ...
... harvest home ; but He crosses our toil with a zone of uncertainties , that we may be faithful workmen , trusting and praying as well as work- ing , and may be kept in holy and blessed dependence on Him who can lift us above all servile ...
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... harvest was all ruined , sticking a rotten sheaf in the hedge and leaving it there , to make , as he said , God Almighty ashamed . We shudder at the blas- phemy ; but it is only a coarse expression of the anguish of the helpless in the ...
... harvest was all ruined , sticking a rotten sheaf in the hedge and leaving it there , to make , as he said , God Almighty ashamed . We shudder at the blas- phemy ; but it is only a coarse expression of the anguish of the helpless in the ...
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Page 113 - And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone : but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 51 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 84 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 90 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page 112 - Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren...
Page 109 - FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 58 - And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land ; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 126 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils ; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron ; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 112 - For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one : for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren...
Page 101 - He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.