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ORATION III THE CERTAINTY OF SACRED THEOLOGY Although the observations which I have already offered in explanation of the Object, the Author and the End of sacred Theology, and other remarks which might have been made, if they had fallen into the hands of a competent interpreter, although all of the... Read More

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led. This whole place is very obscure: but the obscurity is produced by our ignorance of the facts referred to and by their ce... Read More

For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity; and by reason hereof h... Read More

Chapter I. Verses 1-2 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Observe, he applies the word through to the Father. But what then? Shall we s... Read More

Matt. III. 7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? How then does Christ say, that they did not believe John? Luke 20:5 Because this was not believing, to decline receiving ... Read More

Romans X. 14, 15 How then shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written. Here again he takes from them all excuse. For s... Read More

He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. 1. If you remember our former reflections, we shall the more zealously proceed with the building up of what remains, as doing so for great gain. For so will our discourse be more intelligible to you who remember what has been already said, and we s... Read More

And they cast him out. And Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is He, Lord, that I might believe in Him? And the rest. 1. They who for the sake of the truth and the confession of Christ suffer ... Read More

5:21. Submitting yourselves to one another in (the) fear of Christ. 82. This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the assembly. 6:6. But as bondsmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul. Philippians 1:10 .... That ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excelle... Read More

In chapter 1, Peter is laying the foundation, but the subject proper to his epistle does not begin until chapter 2:11: "Dearly beloved, I beseech you," etc. In both epistles he lays the foundation of redemption, and then he proceeds to unfold the principles of the government of God under which the J... Read More