 | Alden Bradford - Bible - 1813 - 544 pages
...heathens. brews, because their widows were neglected 2 in the daily ministration. Then the twelve apostles called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fitting that we should leave the word of God, and serve ta3 bles.* Wherefore, brethren, select from... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...those days, when the number oftlie disciples was multiplied, there arose a mi irnuirmg of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. Ver. 7. And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 662 pages
...supply, then the twelve apostles said to the multitude of the disciples, it is not reason that ке should leave the word of God and serve tables. — Wherefore, brethren, look you out among you — men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and of wisdom*, whom ке may appoint... | |
 | William White - 1813 - 532 pages
..." parted them to all men, as every man had need."f And afterwards, on " a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration;"§ it is a case, which would hardly have happened under the circumstance of eating in common. Perhaps... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...belonged to the body ot the congregation. The twelve, we are informed, " called the multitude oftl* disciples unto them, and said, it is not reason that we should leave the word ot God, and serve tables; wherefore, brethren, look yeoui amongyoa seven men of honest report," &c.... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pages
...being multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Helenists, (Jews dwelling in Greece, who spoke Greek) against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration (of alms). 2. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." I am of opinion, that by Hebrews are meant native Jews, descendants of Abraham and Israel, and that... | |
 | Richard Stack - Bible - 1815 - 328 pages
...follows : « \Vhen the ninnher of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." The ,Grecians here mentioned were what are called Hellenistic Jews ; that is, born of Jewish parents,... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 580 pages
...office, are described in the Acts of the Apostles. For " when there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration," (j-) the apostles pleaded their inability to discharge both offices, of the ministry of the word and... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...of the Christian Church. [cH. r. Hence a " murmuring is said to have been excited among the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration."* Hitherto the twelve apostles had executed the different offices of apostle, elder, and deacon — the... | |
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JTTL.ND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 
