| 1813 - 596 ページ
...world; they must<uniformly be the friends of peace and of the happiness of man. Jesus said to Pilate, " my kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight." Paul also, in all his epistles, inculcates the same principle. See % Cor. to end. " Be ye not unequally... | |
| Samuel Whelpley - 1816 - 140 ページ
...weapon formed against it sha'll prosper. I proceed to observe, 7. In the last place, Christ said, " My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight." This declaration speaks a volume. They did not fight whilst that kingdom continued obedient to its... | |
| Samuel Whelpley - 1818 - 142 ページ
...weapon formed against it shall prosper. I proceed to observe. 7. In the last place, Christ said, " My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight." This declaration speaks a volume. They did not fight whilst that kingdom continued obedient to its... | |
| John Griffin - 1819 - 302 ページ
...in the New Testament. Can any thing be more opposite to their conduct than the language of Christ? " My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight. He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword. Bless them that curse you, do good to them that... | |
| James Clarke Franks - 1821 - 570 ページ
...applying that circumstance in illustration of the nature of the kingdom to which he advanced a claim. " My kingdom is not of this world; else would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews. But now is my kingdom not from hence." There was therefore... | |
| 1840 - 538 ページ
...these divine words condemn the assumption of secular power by the Church. But what says the context ? " My kingdom is not of this world — else would my servants fight !" — and what does this passage more pointedly, more emphatically condemn, than a system of resistance... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 ページ
...things, and the march of moral calculation? The words of our adorable Saviour alone solve the mystery : ' My kingdom is not of this world, (else) would my servants fight.' " What have the wealth, or the splendour, or the talents, of the world, ever accomplished in favour... | |
| Alfred Addis - 1830 - 602 ページ
...principles opposite to those of the other, the one being built upon persuasion and the other upon force. My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight, says our Lord ; and where the connexion of Church and State is noticed, Rev. xvii. 3, it is represented... | |
| 1833 - 104 ページ
...(who was not yet weaned from his other ceremonies) was laid under a specific obligation thereto. " My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight." This is the principle that guided the primitive converts, without exception, throughout Scripture history.... | |
| Edward Mitchell - 1833 - 230 ページ
...Israel. (Luke xxii. 29, 30.) When interrogated by Pilate, Art thou the king of the Jews ? he answered, my kingdom is not of this world ; else would my servants fight. And again : Art thou a king ? he answers, Thou sayest that I am a king. (John xviii. 33 — 37.) When... | |
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