 | English literature - 1856 - 594 pages
...Mariano. He was set up to calm the popular mind. He preached on the text, ' It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power' (Acts i. 7). Savonarola accepted the defiance ; he preached on the same text. Mariano was awed to silence... | |
 | London Exeter hall - 1858 - 236 pages
...this time restore again the kingdom to Israel ? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the-. Father has put in his own power." But he told them that they should be baptized with the Spirit of God from heaven, -and that then, in... | |
 | Bible - 1859 - 500 pages
...remain alive till Christ's second coming. Our Lord said to his Apostles, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power." (Acts i. 7.) But it would be very erroneous to say (as has been recently affirmed by some), that St. Paul... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1859 - 494 pages
...remain alive till Christ's second coming. Our Lord said to his Apostles, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power." (Acts i. 7.) But it would be very erroneous to say (as has been recently affirmed by some), that St. Paul... | |
 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - Lutheran Church - 1862 - 206 pages
...behold the Savior's glorious epiphany. But I can find no authority for thus undertaking to fix " the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power." As I read the Scriptures, it contradicts some of God's plainest declarations and is wholly irreconcilable... | |
 | John Cumming - 1864 - 664 pages
...time restore again the kingdom to Israel ?" The answer of Jesus was, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power." He did not reply that their expectation was vain, but that their desire to know the time of the event... | |
 | David Alfred Doudney - 1864 - 344 pages
...declared to His disciples, upon the eve of His ascension to glory, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power." The Lord intends that the very uncertainty of both the time and the manner of His working, should lead,... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn - Bible - 1865 - 560 pages
...restore the kingdom to Israel, He rebuked their curiosity by the answer, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in His own power." This specific announcement, delivered in a face-toface communication, we may be sure, from the fundamental... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1867 - 890 pages
...remain alive till Christ's second coming. Our Lord said to his Apostles, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power." (Acts i. 7-) But it would be very erroneous to say (as has been recently affirmed by some), that St. Paul... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - Christian biography - 1870 - 566 pages
...Mariano. He was set up to calm the popular mind. He preached on the text, ' It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power' (Acts i. 7). Savonarola accepted the defiance ; he preached on the same text. Mariano was awed to silence... | |
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It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power. 
