 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better :...  The Baptist Magazine - Page 3421837Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...what I shall choose I wot not. 'For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ ; which is far better ; nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance... | |
 | Theology - 1825 - 688 pages
...the kingdom and people of Christ. " 1 am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better : Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh, is more needful for you." We cannot find a more strong expression of Christian love. Such was his lore of Christ, that death,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 342 pages
...language of the apostle Paul :" I am in a " strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to " be with Christ, which is far better: nevertheless, to " abide in the flesh is more needful for you." (%) If, after death, the soul sleep till the day of judgment, and that be all that is meant by being... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1829 - 412 pages
...again, to the Philippians, he says, " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better : nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you :" i, 23. Lastly, it was long previously to his vision of the resurrection, and of the day of final... | |
 | Thomas Huntingford - Intermediate state - 1829 - 530 pages
...that excluded them from it. VI. " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you*." When the apostle speaks here of his " abiding in the flesh," and his " departing from the flesh," he... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 340 pages
...language of the apostle Paul : " I am in a " strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to " be with Christ, which is far better: nevertheless, to " abide in the flesh is more needful for you." (#) If, after death, the soul steep till the day of judgment, and that be all that is meant by being... | |
 | Peter Lovett Fraser - Sermons, English - 1829 - 310 pages
...I shall choose I wot not : " for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a " desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; " which is far better : nevertheless to abide " in the flesh is more needful for you g ." Thus, then, might each of our Saviour's Apostles say with peculiar strength and propriety, " For... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1830 - 364 pages
...what I shall choose I wot not ; for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better : nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance... | |
 | Alfred Addis - Prophecy - 1830 - 602 pages
...what 1 shall choose I wot not. For I am in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better,- nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. See also St, John, Vid. n. Dig. i. Sect. ii. which upon second consideration according to p. xi. 1... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...what I shall choose, I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better ; nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you ; and having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance... | |
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