 | Religion - 1840 - 1078 pages
...Jesus preached — ' Unless a man be born again he cannot discern the kingdom of- heaven ' — ' unless a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into it.' " But let no man think that in the act of being born, either naturally or metaphorically, the... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 pages
...Jesus preached — ' Unless a man be born again he cannot discern the kingdom of heaven ' — ' unless a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into it.' " But let no man think that in the act of being born, either naturally or metaphorically, the... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 534 pages
...Jesus preached — ' Unless a man be born again he cannot discern the kingdom of heaven ' — ' unless a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into it.' " But let no man think that in the act of being born, either naturally or metaphorically, the... | |
 | Gustav Friedrich Wiggers - Pelagianism - 1840 - 402 pages
...gospel is preached, in order completely to destroy all Augustine's argument. John 3: 5, Except one be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God, they might aptly bring into harmony with their theory, by which they made a distinction... | |
 | Cyril George Hutchinson - Baptism - 1841 - 308 pages
...he should then be born of the Spirit, how is he then born of water ? for our Saviour says, " Except a man be born of WATER and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." We say, therefore, that these words evidently allude to baptism — the washing with... | |
 | Nikolaos Boulgaris - 1861 - 328 pages
...his doubt, repeated the necessity of regeneration, answering, "Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD." 'John iii. 3—5.) OF THE HOLY COMMUNION. 243 I believe that this really is Thy Precious... | |
 | Alan Watts - Religion - 1971 - 292 pages
...our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary.2 Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.3 0 God, whose Spirit in the very beginning of the world moved over the waters, that... | |
 | Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer - Religion - 1969 - 312 pages
...Nicodemus could have had no knowledge of it when He said: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5) . Christ speaks here of spiritual birth, and when Nicodemus then asks how... | |
 | Inez E. Perry - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 122 pages
...symbolical of the WATER OF LIFE, and in John 3:5 we read: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except one be born of WATER and the SPIRIT he cannot enter into the kingdom of SxL" Using our interpretation of ATMOSPHERE, it is evident that 1he CHANGE or NEW BIRTH... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - Religion - 1978 - 276 pages
...These two practices, moreover, share a democratic exegetical pedigree. Understanding John 3:5, "Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God," to make baptism essential to salvation, the Fathers concluded — naturally — that... | |
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Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 
