| Andrew Joseph Baxter - 1878 - 398 pages
...therefore, they will forgive us for our well-meant warning, even though they take no heed thereto, " seeing we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish," so that we faithfully preach the Gospel and warn the people. Although two canons of large calibre were... | |
| Alfred Plummer - Bible - 1923 - 214 pages
...to God. It is to Him that thanks TC dg*» It is He who, not makes us to triumph, but displays us in a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved,...that perish : to the one we are the savour of death 16 unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things... | |
| British and foreign sailors' society - 1840 - 428 pages
...triumphing over them in his cross. Now thanks be unto God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ. We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved, and in them that perish. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. To him that overcometh will I give the... | |
| Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - Theology - 1872 - 556 pages
...which the apostle says, "We are a sweet savour of Christ in every place ;" and yet, says he, " both in them that are saved, and in them that perish. To the one we a.re the savour of life unto life ; and to the other the savour of .death unto death."8 And although he used these words... | |
| Ada R. Habershon - Religion - 1957 - 244 pages
...history at this time furnishes us with a wonderful illustration of the truth of 2 Cor. ii. 15, 16. "We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them...the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life." During the seven months that it dwelt in the land of the Philistines... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Biography & Autobiography - 1954 - 452 pages
...May the Lord make manifest by you the savour of the knowledge of Jesus in every place, and make you "unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish." 2 Cor. ii. 15. Having a priceless treasure in earthen vessels, may the excellency of the divine power... | |
| Poetry - 1981 - 206 pages
...tempts comparison with Herbert's poem of the same name. Herbert refers the reader to 2 Corinthians 2:15: "For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish"; and his poem turns on the reflection of sweetness or "savour" from Christ to man. 8 Although both Herbert's... | |
| Robert E. Picirilli - Religion - 1987 - 454 pages
...brings the knowledge of Christ to men. b. The two-fold effects of Paul's preaching (w. 15, 16a) 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life.... | |
| Harold Toliver - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 296 pages
..."Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are...Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish" (2 Cor. 2.14-15). However, even here Herbert's own savoring of the words "my master" and "my servant"... | |
| George Herbert - Poetry - 1991 - 500 pages
...Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are...are the savour of death unto death: and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as many, which... | |
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