PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Luke — Volume 1
Henry Donald Maurice Spence [1836–1917] · 342,562 words · 357 reading sections
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be.,•e their tesLimony to his nature or his mis8ion. At the ~ame time, he shows his sovereignty o'l'er them in dooming them to silence and solitude, at lulst so far as po~8es~ing men was concerned. V. OuR LORD SHOWS us HTR m1m OF RETIREMENT AFTER J,Anotm, AND ALSO WHAT Hrs GREAT COMMri;sro:K w As. (Vers. 42-44.) After…
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Wa rend these Gospels B8 the story of the ornmhling mud vilfage, inh11bited by th., ll'.laeter'e life often without thinking how poorest e.nd least enterprising of peAsants, muoh of tho.t life is never told. After all, we so sll.dly changed ie this beautiful and only possess II few representative incidents- wealthy d…
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not bc11r 11w aight of the glorious majesty l'iRn. of whom hi' m1ty hn'l"n h<'nr,1 eo much, of hi• riaC"n Lord. Thou sh11lt 011.toh men. and Rsks him to exercise his mighty power Th<' imng,•ry onntRinC'd in thnac wnrde nf on the dreAd mRln<ly which wns c11.ti11g CWI\V the JIIHsfpr 1'1 his fisl1C'rmen-followcrs wns, his…
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Israel ever rose l\bove 1111 consideration of drin and schnole. The hnuee Wfls througeii law nnd custom, nud, pntti11g a.side all logal, within, and the crnwrl prcssecl round the orthodox restriction, obeyed at once the doors. In the Mura~ of the quiet teachin~, aovoroign dictates of the heart. Bo Elijah took place the…
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give <'-omfnrt and peRCe to the suffering, followed. Any one of those present, had he eilent, sick man. Jeeue rertd v.·he.t was in d1tred, mi~ht h1tve uttered the solemn e.bso- the he,-.rt. of the poor prtre.lytio; hie sins die- lution. None but he could surely risk, 111 treesed him more th,rn hie me.le.dy; very he …
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11.ncl 11. nobler one, suggested this enrnlment the recognized tea.chers of the .Jew8, a.n<l of the cleapisccl publican in tliat glorioue seum to have succeeded that great anrl in- company of apostles. The Lor,! was cleter- fluential class or orcler, the "sons of tho mined to show, by this choice of his, that in proph…
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pl'("BPnre nt fcnstin!!s on,l mNry-moking-s, hie drawn from Hoa. it. 19, 20, e.nd perhaps e.lso r011eor!ing- with publicl\ns, bis clioire of one from t.he more mystical Scripture, Ps. xiv. of tl1Pm I\> his ,lisriplc nnd friend, no doubt and the Song of Son!('s. Jesus here olonrly ~ur11rise,l and disturbed not a few …
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wonls renrlcrod "bottles" prnperly signify the first three evangolists who related In • wine • skins." These leathern bottles detail this most important reply of ,fosus throughout Byrie. and Palestine are gene- when the disciples of John and the Phriri- rn.lly made of goat-skins. They a.re still of sees came to ques…
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HOMILETICS. Yer~. 1-11.-The oo1l t-0 be fishers o/ men. Ench or the missionary circuits of ChrisL has it, special features of iuterest. The first of these circuits is distinguiahed L_, three miracles significant of his work as the Christ of God. Look at the miracle of the draught of fishes, with the narrative to wh…
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"Ne1erthelcss nt thy word." Is not the word sufficient? The improbabilities are 1111 o• the one side. The time for fishing has psscd. All night, 11nd nothing; what could there be in the morning? "Nevertheless at thy word." "Lord, wl,at wilt thou hnvo me to do?" (2) Its power, not in the worker and not in the net. The w…
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moment's pnu~!l when a leper cried to him." "If thou wilt." "I will." And the touch. To touch a leper was an infmction of law, He had to withdraw into the wilderness i111mediately afterwards. He did not wish to provoke any violent oppaiition. But be bruke the ceremonial law at the demanrl of a higher law-the law who…
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Are thllre not many in our e.ssemblies who, like these Pharisee~, "sit by"? They scarcely believe wha.t is eaid. As old Matthew Henry writes, " It is to them a tale that ie told them, not e. mefisage that is eent them. They are willing that we should preRch before them, not that we ebonld preach to them." It is this ei…
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let them rejoice." The days did come. The Bridegroom was taken from them. And they mourned. And still, a.s then, there a.re, as one has ea.lied them," fnst-daya which G,,d appoints souls." Christ's disciples should ha.ve their retreats, when the round of l'leasure or of care is given up, and the blessing of entire s…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS A UTIIORS. Vel'II, 4-6.-Weary workers. The passage is one of encouragPment to those who have been labouring in the cause of truth and righteousness, and whose success bas not been according to their hope. We have a picture of- I. FRUITLESS TOIL, "We have toiled all the night, anrl bavt' taken noth…
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nnwort.hincss, he exclaimed, with charl\cteristic candour of impulsiveness, 11 Deparl frorn me ; for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord." I. THE w Ay IN WHICH G-On NOW MANIFESTS HIMSELF' TO THE WORLD, That way is threefold. l. Nature and pi·ovidence. The heavens declare his glory, and so does this won,ierful and beautiful a…
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be givon you," be reAolvee tho.t he will o.sk that a new life may be given him; be will seek: what if he shoukl find? We have never made to man any request on which so mnch has bung as that which was now hanging on the answer he should receive at the lips of Jesus Christ. 'fo him it was not success or failure merely; i…
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Ver. 17.-Present power. One of the noblest of the psalms commences with that verse which it would have been well worth while to have lived Po long and stormy life to have written, "God is our Refuge and Strength, a. very present Help in tronble." Who can estimate the thousands of thousands of tempest-tossed human so…
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IV. THE surEnADUNDANOE wmcn rs m CnmsT. This poor pnmlytio sought much of the Lord, but he found 11_ great deal more than he sought; seeking he11ling for his body, he found that, and Wlth that mercy for his soul. Uhrist has more to give us than we count upon receiving: Manr a man has gone to him asking only for preR…
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Vere. 29-32.-Christian association. On what principle shall we regulate our intercourse with men? How shall we follow Christ in the matter of associating with our fellow-men? Our answer, suggested by this incident, is- L THAT ASS00U.TION WITII BAD MEN ON THE GROUND OF FllIENDBHIP IB AN UNCHRISTIAN TIJING. 'l'he Pharis…
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the doctrine of Christ. What could it mean? Our Lord met this inquiry in a very different wa.y from tbnt in which he might have done so. He might ho.ve sl\id, 11 Where, in tbe books of Moses, is fasting enjoined on the people of God ? On what day in all the year, excepting the Day of Atonement, is this practice pre…
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11wliuucc~, na,1 so ho hM to take to the Renshore, arnl I.here meet pop11larity a.s best he can. 'l'he pressure of the people is great, o.nd it is to hear the Word of God they h"ve come, A great Prophet, they feel, has risen up among them, and so they are eager to kuow what o.ro the lakst tidings from the Most High.…
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for nought and in vain,'.' may have been often on hie lips.I Bnt he handed on the elements of success to his successors. They reaped the harvest of which his apparent failure and early deat.h were the seed. The whole arraugcment reflects glory on the consideration of the Master. III. THE _EFFECT OF THE SUOOESS UPON…
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wae the 11:reat "Fisher of men," and it was from fellowship with him they were to learn their profeeeion. 'fhe training of the twelve wae a must real and blessed thing.I It was more than any theological learning could ever afford. It wae learning of Chriet hini~elf, who is the embodied Truth. And yet to this eame test …
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thnt we exa.~~crnte when we say that thoS(' who do not love solitt1dedo not love truth." I l I, is iu tbe secret pince with God that we renew nnr spiritual strength and are fit for rm-ther se, nee. And what perfect prn~·crs our Lord's must have been. No personal ~in to oonfcss, but simpl)• to confer with the Father …
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an<l doctrines," were new no one, we imagine, could tell us. They were the old wine and the old garments, eo.sy and palatable to the self-righteoUB mind, like old wine; but tho Christian spirit of sociality and missionary enterprise was tho new wine which the ~elf-righteous do not particularly care for. Hence our Lord …
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not lawful to do on the aabbath day11 It Jesus intended to draw from the exalllple would seem thnt those Plu,risees oome from of the great hero-kiug and the high priest J l'rusnlem, And were no doubt privAtely WM that no cercmonio.l law we.a to overrid~ cornmissionC'<l to w·nt<lh nArrowly the acts the general princi…
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oountry, In one or tho corn-fields nenr the of kindness, done anywhere, there was M Loke of Gennesarot. 1'he second was se.bbatism. givon in a eynngogue possibly in the city Ver. 10.-Stretoh forth thy he.nd ! It of Caperuoum. St. Luke inserts thin sci:110, must have sounded a stran"e command to which may hBve tu.ke…
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Mntt.. x. 2-i.. llfR.rk iii. 16-19. Luke vi. H-16. Acts i, 13. Simon Simon Simon Peter Audr<'W Jnmee Andrew Jamos JRllleB John Jamee John John And1·ew John An,lrcw Philip Philip Philip Philip Bartholomew Bartholomew Bartholomew Thomas Thome.a Matthew Matthew Bartholomew Me.tthew Thomas Thomo.e Matthew James of…
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James, and John. He waa apparently the ing a. position in the thin! rlivieion which inthnnte friend nnd osaociate of' Philip, the in Bt. Lnke's list is fill,,,! hy "James'.➔ first of the second" four." James and John. Jnde." Thero is no doul,t that Lebbreua Woll-known and honoured names io the and Tharldroue were su…
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famous discourse known as tl,e s11rm0n on likely to produce the tliffercnocs we llud in the mount. A great mnltitnde of people out of all J"ndm:i and J"eruealem, and from the two reports of the great sermon. the sea-ooast of Tyre and Sidon, whloh oame The plan or scheme of the two Goepela to hear him. To the p!Rc.e…
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revengeful thonghts, but rather with that of Jesue, thnt "it is more blesl!Od to give Divine pity which he felt and showed to 1111 than to receive." poor fallen croo.tures. " See now," the M11eter Vera. 32, 33~P'or if ye love them whioh went on to s11y, "notwltheto.nding the woe love you, what thank have ye l for rinne…
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3hrnted and mnrn•d all tr:1e h0n lthy religions led? Doth will, of course, end by foiling lifo. Condemn not, and ye BhRU not be into tho rlitoh. condemned. Tlmt pitikss cm11lem11ation Ver. 40.-The disoiple ls not above his which, regnr,lleas of ciri,umstances, con- mo.ster: but every one that ls perfeot shall ,lcmn…
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ono period of I.ho Church's history possessed I will show you to whom he is like, ho is a epccic,l importnuco. It was used as one like a man which built a house,, and <l.igged of the fouud£Lti11ne of the eyetem of dual• deep, and le.id the foundation on a rook , and Ism taught in the onoe wicleeprend l\fani• when th…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. l-ll.-C'7irist and the sabbath <lay. No feature of Christ's ministry le more 11triking than his attitude towards the sabhRth of Israel, His first cou.fl.ict with the Jewish authorities was 11.'!SOCiated with the sabbath. St. John tells us the story of this conflict in the fift~ chap~r of his Gospe…
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keep the Institution subordinate to the end, the good of man, and such an abuse as prnctically inverts this ordor, making man a mere creature of the institution-!rives0 the true note or the blessed eabhath-keeping. II. WrrAT IS THIS BLESSED !!AIIIIATII-KEEl'ING? Observe: 1. There is no disturbance of the primary conce…
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twelve." L,·t ns assume that the number ie part of the ordering (see eh. uil. 20, 30). Aud recollect also the 11ignificnnce attached to twelve-as the complete number of the Church-in the Book of Revelation. Do not exaggerate, but do not underrate the significance of the numbers found in Scripture. The naturalist who…
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King and the kingrlom meeting the parliament of man. Yes, the King mcok anri lowly, but" the mighty God, the Lord, is about to speak, and call the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof." He would not speak until he had con- stituted his Church, For the Man is before the Law, the Voice before the Sc…
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Vcrs. 13--16.-77ul designation of the twelve. Our Lord appears to have formally dC'signated the twelve, on this occa~i"n, to be his apostles. He had called them singly berore; now be appoints them to their post in a more formal manner, This act of his suggests to us some thoughts upon- L TREIB LIKENESS TO O!l"E A::…
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minds, by transforming evil lives, by lifting men up, God helping us, from the depths of wrong and of despair to the noble and blessed heights of holiness and joy and hope.-C. Ver. 20.-T_he blessedness of hwrnility. Acting on the established '.3-Ild valid principle that we must rnterpret the fess by the more complete,…
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011r llla~t~r is referri~g to thoBe who hunger after rightrousne~s, who l\re l\tTected by a k(ICn spmtual l\ppet1te. These are in a stale of earnest religions inquiry; they are lil{8 the young man who ran eagerly and anxiously to " know what he must do to inherit et<'rnal life" (eh. xvii_i. 18). In other words, they…
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toward our enemies, t..) exclude all desire for their ill fortune• and going much further than that, to nourish in our souls a positively kind feeling t~ward' them, a readiness to ~crve them;_ nay, more, to form_ the habit of prayi~g _for them, and of looking out for an opportumty to show them kmdncss. Surely this 1s…
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act towar<l them, these rules are imperfect. They leave l!Omething to be desired and to be attnined. II. T11E INSl'IRATION WE NEED TO YULP'IL IT. This great precept of Christ is n0t to be translnted into action like any ordinary military or municipal regulation. We must gain some inspiration from our Lord himself if w…
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Ver. 88.-Human responsiveness. This word of Christ mfly be taken with thn.t ~ther on the ~ame s~bjoct, which none of the evangelists recorded, but which we could. 111 ha Ye ~pared," It 1s more bh·ssed to give than to rcceivo." \Ve may consider- !. WrrAT WE HAYE TO GIVE. We have much that we can draw from if we desir…
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J, THAT THJ!l WISDOM O'I TIIE WORLD DEPENDS VERY LARIJF:LY ON THAT OIi' ITH DELJOIOUS TEACHERS, 'fhe multitude have never yet been able to think great theo- logical questions through; they have not attempted the settlement of them by their own examination. They have left that very largely imleed to their reli'..dous le…
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their action; for they lay stress on the one s~i~I_I infirmity while they \el\ve unrogarded aud _unack?owlerlged man:i: hono~1rable _11cqu1R1t1o_ns? many Vl\l~:ible vi,tnes, 2. They are mcons1derate of the d1fficult1es which the v1ct1ms of their severity have had to c,,utcnd with, and. in doing battle with which the…
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below; there ls me.ny e. slip e.nd many a fa.lee step, but then there iB much honourable e!Tort e.nd much spirUue.l earnestness recognized and owned by the p,itient Father of spirits. III. TnE PRAOTI0AL OONOLUBION for which we must be prepared. "Every tree is known by hie own fruit." "By their fruits ye she.II know th…
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~ er. 49.-The greatest rvin. "The ruin of that house was great.• Occasionally there occurs a panic in the commercial world. As the cause or, often enough, as the conse- quence of this, some great house is "broken;" its liabilities are too great for its resources; it cannot meet the claims that are falling due, And s…
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that one , , , should perish." "God so loved the world . . . that whosoever believcth •.. ehould not perish." 'l'be fa.lien house may be down beyond recovery; not so the human eoul. In the gospel of Josue Christ the way ot restoration is revealed. By the power of the Holy Spirit the soul that hM fallen Lhe furthest ma.…
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sc>e~, in fact, hRd h1hn the Fabb11th unner their control and spoiled it <oget.her, Honce the sov1•rcignty of the sabhath must he lt•ft in the hands of him who is cl\lled the Son of ml\n. Christ is the Lord who can so order the sabhath that it ~hall be truly·sancti- fied. It is, cun8equPntly, from Christ's Mhbath-…
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Vere. 20-49.-The LegislatO'T' on the mount. We have seen how, after a whole night spent in prayer, our Lord proceeded to the important work of selecting his apostles. In this way he org(JITl,ized his kingdom. And now, havin~ healed all who needed healing, and had been brought or had come to him, he has the ground clear…
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The world in8i~ts on " qttid pro quo. Hence the worldly minded will always Bl!k the que8t1on shout the course" pel"l!on pursues," What docs be expect to gain by it?" 'l.'o Rct wit-hnnl hope of recompense is what the world cannot understrmd. And in etriot conformity with this, the world is prompted to'' give as much as …
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he was innuguratlng over the hearts of with more grace than himeelf, to plearl hiA men, its stern rebuke of the dominant re- caose with the MRBter, telling him how well ligious tenching of the day, its grave pro- the centurion hRd deserved any assistance phetio onloolrs,-nll mnrked it out as the which a Jewish physicia…
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V<'r. 7. -But B&y in & word, &nd my Angnetlne remarks here that "the Lord had Hrvent she.II be heeled. The Gentile found in the oleuter what he he.d not found •nlrli<'r'e f1lith WRB re1tlly greRt. He !JA.d in the olive." ri•••n abo,.e the need of e.n outw1trd ei!(tl, Ver. 10.-Jtaturnlng to the hou1e, found "''''" R…
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tbe.t thedonrl mnn WRB ahout t.o hnve been lnid thorn "e.s illuetmtione of Christ's Divine when the Muster met the little mourning power and love in raising the rnul, dead in procession wiuding down the steep roa,l e.s trespasses and sins, from everv kind of be e.nd hie crowd of followers wne toiling spiritual death, w…
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Herod AntipR• giv<'n in eh. iii. 19, 20. In In order thnt tl,ey who anew~red the qne1- the o,,ur•<' of John's imprisonml'nt, it is tion might. hy their own answer, be k<l to prohnhle thHt very many of his disoiplea faith, so Jnhn, now about to be slBin by b<'<'Rnte h,,ar<'l'II of ,losns. During the early Herod, snnd…
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wltioh the mneeflngers witneeseil that d11,y, Lord, rearrul le■t the people who had been st1ikin,; though they were, were no novel st11nding by e.nd listening to the ')lleation onee in the work of our Lord. They were, which the Baptist hlld pnt, end bis answer, too, precisely similar to those which had shonld enterti\i…
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dN'~t. truest s0Me or the word. Ah I pionOC'r. The usual cxplnnntlon adopted by hio.:her ,till, WE-nt on thl' Tt'RChPr, ,John WM most if not all modem thoologiaus of tbo Inst nnH'h mc>l'C' thRn II prophet.. \\·h11t th!ln P cl1111ee of the venre ia, that, groat as John ,111,I the by-!!IRndt>n! m11r,·elll.'d; what "'~…
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thc10, the common folk, by their Rctions woulcl not r'I\Y .. at II funernl,'' juat ILi\ tlioy Rnrl re11dy ncceptnnco of lho great reformer• refuecd to Join in the gnme of "rejoicing prcnchor, thus publioly declnred that they at a wedding." To such A br1nd of imperious nclrnnwleclgorl the wisdom nnd goodness of little o…
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his C'nd to be withmit honour: how le he 11 acarcely likely that the appo.rently well- 111m,l,pr, ci Rmnng the children of God, and 0 known oourte11Gn of the touching 1tory WM his lot la smong the s•ints I" (Wied. v. 4, 5). a demoniao. ",. ,ua_, h,, qnit.e sur,, that "in the fiery furnace Go<l wslk<>d ";tt, his serv…
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probl\bly Oapernaum, the naual residence of for peace. Perl1aps whRt be.d decided her to our Lord. te.ke this step of boldly &€eking out the Master were worcls apparently spoken ab,,ut Ver. 86.-And one of the Pharlleea tlellired this time (in St. Matthew's Gospel they him that he would eat with him. And he follow dir…
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