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Page 227 - Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest ? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields ; for they are white already to harvest.
Page 225 - And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight : and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Page 95 - In journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; In labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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Page 41 - ... Jesus Christ" in the conclusion.15 Another Coptic text, designed to expel Satan or his demons from the sick is embedded in the famous Paris papyrus (which is in Greek, for the most part). The exorcist, after placing an olive branch before the sick person, is to repeat an incantation which begins: "Hail, God of Abraham! Hail, God of Isaac! Hail, God of Jacob! Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost, Son of the Father, who is under the Seven and in the Seven" (PM, IV, 1227 ff.)-1* The liturgical origin of this...
Page 206 - There are many men in this country who, in the course of ten years, have married as many as twenty, thirty, or more wives ; and women not far advanced in age who have been wives to a dozen or more men successively.
Page 26 - Nevertheless, it was not merely the confessors and martyrs who were missionaries. It was characteristic of this religion that every one who seriously confessed the faith proved of service to its propaganda.
Page 31 - ... to tear asunder the limbs of those whom they thus treated. And all these things were doing not only for a few days or some time, but for a series of whole years. At one time, ten or more, at another, more than twenty, at another time not less than thirty, and even sixty, and again at another time, a hundred men with their wives and little children were slain in one day, whilst they were condemned to various and varied punishments.
Page 26 - The most numerous and successful missionaries of the Christian religion were not the regular teachers but Christians themselves in virtue of their loyalty and courage.
Page 35 - That system asserts the unity of self-consciousness in the person of Christ, but loses the duality of the two natures. Eutyches taught that in the incarnation the human nature was transmuted into the divine, so that the resultant was one person and one nature. For this reason the Eutychians held that it was accurate and proper to say that " God suffered."] Sabellius sought to answer the question by supposing that there was but one