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... offered his life blood to his persecutors , and shed it within himself , though God preserved his life for future labors . ' Finally , St. Augustine's testimony is most worthy of note . He says : ' St. Ambrose , when treating of the 1 ...
... offered his life blood to his persecutors , and shed it within himself , though God preserved his life for future labors . ' Finally , St. Augustine's testimony is most worthy of note . He says : ' St. Ambrose , when treating of the 1 ...
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... offered the young of goats , according to the precept of the angel , and placed unleavened bread upon the rock , and covered them with broth , and , as soon as the angel of God touched these with the tip of the rod which he was carrying ...
... offered the young of goats , according to the precept of the angel , and placed unleavened bread upon the rock , and covered them with broth , and , as soon as the angel of God touched these with the tip of the rod which he was carrying ...
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... offered to God for the redemption of the people . For that bullock was in figure Christ , in whom , as Isaias said , ' dwelt the fullness of the seven spiritual virtues . This bullock Abraham also offered when he saw the day of the Lord ...
... offered to God for the redemption of the people . For that bullock was in figure Christ , in whom , as Isaias said , ' dwelt the fullness of the seven spiritual virtues . This bullock Abraham also offered when he saw the day of the Lord ...
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... offering obedience , not as one who was offering fellowship . This is a great mystery , which no one knows . Then He said to Peter : ' What I do thou knowest not now ; but thou shalt know hereafter.'27 This , I say , is a divine mystery ...
... offering obedience , not as one who was offering fellowship . This is a great mystery , which no one knows . Then He said to Peter : ' What I do thou knowest not now ; but thou shalt know hereafter.'27 This , I say , is a divine mystery ...
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... sprinkled , sanctify such as are defiled , to the cleansing of the flesh ; how much more shall the blood of 11 1 John 3.24 . Christ , who through the Holy Ghost offered Himself without 12 Cf. Rom . 8.20 . THE HOLY SPIRIT 71.
... sprinkled , sanctify such as are defiled , to the cleansing of the flesh ; how much more shall the blood of 11 1 John 3.24 . Christ , who through the Holy Ghost offered Himself without 12 Cf. Rom . 8.20 . THE HOLY SPIRIT 71.
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Page 34 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Page 128 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 186 - And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of GOD and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 183 - And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Page 190 - He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 34 - And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, that He may abide with you for ever. The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, nor knoweth Him : but you shall know Him, because He shall abide with you, and shall be in you.
Page 104 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth ; as there are gods many, and lords many ; yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him ; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
Page 149 - Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Page 140 - I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea...
Page 137 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.