 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1892 - 524 pages
...respecting any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in the heavens. For where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them " ([xviii.] 19, 20). "The Lord's name" means every thing by which He is worshipped;... | |
 | Theodore Francis Wright - 1892 - 284 pages
...and the future, are ever in His presence. " Before Abraham was I am"1 is Divine language as to time; "where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them" 2 is Divine language as to space. " Not circumscribed by time, nor fixed to space,... | |
 | John J. Elmendorf - 1892 - 776 pages
...sacred objects, sacramental and other, which are there contained ; and lastly, because of the promise, " Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them." Sacrifice. — Is offering sacrifice a part of the law of nature f Natural reason... | |
 | Charles John Vaughan - 1894 - 304 pages
...so long as the ' here ' is local. The Presence now is no longer in any sense local. True, He says, ' Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' But it is the gathering of the two or three, it is not the place where they assemble,... | |
 | Adoniram Judson Gordon - 1895 - 164 pages
...two depended entirely upon the fact that the son knew what he had, and the father did not know. ' ' Where two or three are gathered in my name there am I in the midst of them,'" says Christ. Then the dream was literally true, was it ? 3 " 33 Yes. If this promise... | |
 | Ernest B. Gordon - 1896 - 404 pages
...Christ, in the person of the Holy Spirit, dwells in every church in the fullness of his presence. ' Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them,' is the Magna Charta of the local church. Christ is not divided ; he has not distributed... | |
 | Job Smith Mills, J. H. Ruebush - 1900 - 506 pages
...the words of Paul, "the church which is in the house." "Our Lord," said Clement of Alexandria, "said where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I. Who are these two or three, but the father, the mother, and the child ?" For the investigation which... | |
 | Gustav Warneck - 1901 - 412 pages
...other hand, not only to all pastors, but to all believers. For in Matt, xviii. 20 it is written that "where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them." If, then, it is asserted that the missionary command is co-extensive with the promise... | |
 | John Edgar McFadyen - 1901 - 216 pages
...being visited by Jesus. Most of all in the house of prayer may we look upon His shining face. "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I." "Jesus answered 'are tbere not twelve bouts tn tbe oas ? ' " A TWELVE HOURS' DAY What shall we say... | |
 | James Meeker Ludlow - 1902 - 346 pages
...least two by two. He would not trust piety to bloom in isolated plantings ; therefore His promise, " Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them." Paul was the most puissant soul in human annals, outranking all in sacred ability,... | |
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For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 
