Selections from Eminent Commentators, who Have Believed in Punishment After Death: Wherein They Have Agreed with Universalists in Their Interpretation of Scriptures Relating to Punishment |
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... interpret a given passage to relate , not to such misery , but to some temporal judgment or calamity , notwithstanding their creed and their prejudices , so far as they operate , would induce a different interpretation .
... interpret a given passage to relate , not to such misery , but to some temporal judgment or calamity , notwithstanding their creed and their prejudices , so far as they operate , would induce a different interpretation .
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The national calamities with which you are threatened are no light evils , but such as , if you do not repent , shall be like cutting up the tree by the roots ; for as barren trees , which bring forth no fruit , are hewn down and cast ...
The national calamities with which you are threatened are no light evils , but such as , if you do not repent , shall be like cutting up the tree by the roots ; for as barren trees , which bring forth no fruit , are hewn down and cast ...
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... the destruction of the Jewish state is expressed in the terms of husbandmen ; and by the wheat's being gathered into the garner , seems meant that the believers in Jesus should not be involved in the calamity . ' Com . in loc .
... the destruction of the Jewish state is expressed in the terms of husbandmen ; and by the wheat's being gathered into the garner , seems meant that the believers in Jesus should not be involved in the calamity . ' Com . in loc .
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... a promise of the Holy Spirit , with security amidst the calamities which were impending over Judea ; to those who should reject him , the denunciation of a fatal share in the general desolation of that coming of the Son of man .
... a promise of the Holy Spirit , with security amidst the calamities which were impending over Judea ; to those who should reject him , the denunciation of a fatal share in the general desolation of that coming of the Son of man .
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The Bishop does not say , whether he understands the destruction , here mentioned , to mean a temporal calamity , or endless misery . But as he refers so many similar passages to the different fate of believers and unbelievers , at the ...
The Bishop does not say , whether he understands the destruction , here mentioned , to mean a temporal calamity , or endless misery . But as he refers so many similar passages to the different fate of believers and unbelievers , at the ...
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Page 295 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Page 151 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man ; no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Page 267 - For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead...
Page 154 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Page 115 - The kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Page 231 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 57 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock...
Page 155 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 306 - ... and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks; Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand...
Page 112 - Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country...