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... meaning . It took existing moral precepts , and gave them a new application . The meaning and the applica- tion had already been anticipated in some degree by the Jewish prophets . There were Jewish minds which had been ripening for ...
... meaning . It took existing moral precepts , and gave them a new application . The meaning and the applica- tion had already been anticipated in some degree by the Jewish prophets . There were Jewish minds which had been ripening for ...
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... meaning . The terms have in some cases come down by direct transmission into our own language . They have in such cases gathered to themselves wholly new meanings , which , until we con- sciously hold them up to the light , seem to us ...
... meaning . The terms have in some cases come down by direct transmission into our own language . They have in such cases gathered to themselves wholly new meanings , which , until we con- sciously hold them up to the light , seem to us ...
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... meaning in earlier times that which it is tending to mean now , the knowledge of the phenomena and laws of the physical world . The tendency to collect and colligate and compare the facts of nature appears to be no less instinctive than ...
... meaning in earlier times that which it is tending to mean now , the knowledge of the phenomena and laws of the physical world . The tendency to collect and colligate and compare the facts of nature appears to be no less instinctive than ...
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... meaning . It is spoken of as the prophetess of the poets , 1 standing to them in the same relation as the Delphian priestess to her inspiring god . The main subject - matter of this literary education was the poets . They were read ...
... meaning . It is spoken of as the prophetess of the poets , 1 standing to them in the same relation as the Delphian priestess to her inspiring god . The main subject - matter of this literary education was the poets . They were read ...
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... meaning , comes to us from the schools in which a passage of Homer or Plato or Chrysippus was read and explained . The " lecture " was probably in the first instance a student's exercise : the function of the teacher was to make remarks ...
... meaning , comes to us from the schools in which a passage of Homer or Plato or Chrysippus was read and explained . The " lecture " was probably in the first instance a student's exercise : the function of the teacher was to make remarks ...
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Page 170 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page xxiv - The Sermon on the Mount is the promulgation of a new law of conduct; it assumes beliefs rather than formulates them ; the theological conceptions which underlie it belong to the ethical rather than the speculative side of theology; metaphysics are wholly absent. The Nicene Creed is a statement partly of historical facts and partly of dogmatic inferences ; the metaphysical terms which it contains would probably have been unintelligible to the first disciples ; ethics have no place in it. The one belongs...
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Page 253 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.
Page 302 - We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine of David thy servant, which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.