 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 682 pages
...; Eph. iv. When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Now he that ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower farts of the earth ? which most evidently intends our blessed Saviour. Psalm xcvii. 1. " The Lord,... | |
 | Alexander Murray (Schoolmaster) - God - 1815 - 564 pages
...that cometh from heaven is above all.* JESUS knowing that he came from GOD, and was going: to GOD.f Now that he ascended, what is it, but that he also...descended first into the lower parts of the earth. J To those texts may be added what the apostle says, " The first man is of the earth, earthly; the... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1815 - 604 pages
...anguish. from the dead?' 'Nov. ," says this same apostle in another place, speaking of Christ, 'that l> ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower part* of the earth.'' Suppose then we grant that most of the passages on the subject, describe the... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...When " he ascended up on high, he led «* captivity captive, and gave gifts 9. " unto men." (Now (b)> that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the i o. lower parts of the earth ? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens,... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Unitarianism - 1817 - 384 pages
...active persevering benevolence, it is unnecessary to remark. It speaks for itself. XIV. Ephes. iv. 9. " Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth ?" " That is," says archbishop Newcome, " he descended into the grave." Psalm Ixiii. 9, " They that... | |
 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - Congregational churches - 1818 - 250 pages
...to the subject under consideration ? What shall we think of the following passages ? "Now, that h,c ascended; what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth ?" "Jfe that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 484 pages
...having been there before hi.s ascent thither from earth ; for, us the Apostle asserts (Eph. v. 9), In that he ascended, what is it, but that he also descended first ? Adam was formed immediately by God, without the intervention of human parents ; and yet he is so... | |
 | 1822 - 412 pages
...chapter of St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians we also find a proof of Christ's descent into hell. " Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also...descended first into the lower parts of the earth." We do not say that the lower parts of the earth always signify hades, for we have instances to the... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1822 - 444 pages
...ascended upon high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is il but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth г Не that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens. that he might fill... | |
 | John Pearson (bp. of Chester.) - 1822 - 576 pages
...from heaven doth really presuppose his being there, and that antecedently to any ascent thither; for "that he ascended, what is it, but that he also 'descended first?" Eph. iv. 9. So St. Paul, asserting a descent as necessarily preceding his ascension, teacheth us never... | |
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Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 
