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... angels . These have been the opinions of wise and holy interpreters . " In the other trees , " says Augustin , " there was nou- rishment ; but in this a sacrament . " Irenæus and Chry- sostom suppose that it had a virtue to preserve the ...
... angels . These have been the opinions of wise and holy interpreters . " In the other trees , " says Augustin , " there was nou- rishment ; but in this a sacrament . " Irenæus and Chry- sostom suppose that it had a virtue to preserve the ...
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... left behind , than the angel visiters , who disappeared , indeed , but " walked the air unseen , " and at times came visibly again , on messages of love . III . The Sentence of Death . " One arrow 16 THE LAST ENEMY .
... left behind , than the angel visiters , who disappeared , indeed , but " walked the air unseen , " and at times came visibly again , on messages of love . III . The Sentence of Death . " One arrow 16 THE LAST ENEMY .
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... angels and a flaming sword forbade every presumptuous approach ; till Paradise itself was no more . The flood left no tradition of the time when these bright guards were last seen by human eyes ; and no mortal beheld when the trees . of ...
... angels and a flaming sword forbade every presumptuous approach ; till Paradise itself was no more . The flood left no tradition of the time when these bright guards were last seen by human eyes ; and no mortal beheld when the trees . of ...
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... angels . This is not the indis- criminate slaughter of ancient war , when the whole population that could not flee was often destroyed ; nor the relentless bloodshed , which in later times may have followed a hard victory ; but it is ...
... angels . This is not the indis- criminate slaughter of ancient war , when the whole population that could not flee was often destroyed ; nor the relentless bloodshed , which in later times may have followed a hard victory ; but it is ...
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... angel , this can hardly have been through any operation of the most violent and infectious malady , but probably through some such miraculous change in the surrounding atmosphere as made it death to breathe . Thus the very means of life ...
... angel , this can hardly have been through any operation of the most violent and infectious malady , but probably through some such miraculous change in the surrounding atmosphere as made it death to breathe . Thus the very means of life ...
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Page 55 - The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 25 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 216 - He took the Cup; and, when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this ; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins : Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of Me.
Page 210 - O my Father, if this cup may not pass from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 92 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 218 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 287 - And white robes were given unto every one of them ; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Page 287 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 295 - The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead...
Page 237 - Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God ; A port of calms, a state of ease From the rough rage of swelling seas.