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... literal sense in the Word , by the influence of which many souls are saved . But notwithstanding we have , in most of the Divine Word , an account of things which have taken place in this natural world , and the plain commandments given ...
... literal sense in the Word , by the influence of which many souls are saved . But notwithstanding we have , in most of the Divine Word , an account of things which have taken place in this natural world , and the plain commandments given ...
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... literal events , recorded in the Word , even where they occurred precisely as stated , are all parables ; that is , they all contain a hidden meaning higher than the literal sense . Now , a literal event of which we read in the Word ...
... literal events , recorded in the Word , even where they occurred precisely as stated , are all parables ; that is , they all contain a hidden meaning higher than the literal sense . Now , a literal event of which we read in the Word ...
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... sense of the Word is mental - completely and in toto mental . And that , in looking through the literal sense , we look into the world of mind . Then , when we come to a passage of Scripture from the letter of which we cannot draw any ...
... sense of the Word is mental - completely and in toto mental . And that , in looking through the literal sense , we look into the world of mind . Then , when we come to a passage of Scripture from the letter of which we cannot draw any ...
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... literal truths of the gospel ; nor has He come the sec- ond time , to those who receive not the spiritual truths . And we cannot better introduce the reader to the confi- dence we feel in the spiritual sense of the Word , and to the ...
... literal truths of the gospel ; nor has He come the sec- ond time , to those who receive not the spiritual truths . And we cannot better introduce the reader to the confi- dence we feel in the spiritual sense of the Word , and to the ...
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... literal sense , upon the subject of fallen angels , or of the origin of evil ; and it fails to produce the least evi- dence that an angel of the heavenly abode ever fell and became a devil on the earth . Milton's PARADISE LOST , and not ...
... literal sense , upon the subject of fallen angels , or of the origin of evil ; and it fails to produce the least evi- dence that an angel of the heavenly abode ever fell and became a devil on the earth . Milton's PARADISE LOST , and not ...
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Page 237 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 123 - For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent.
Page 139 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 261 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Page 138 - And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath ; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke : The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come : And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Page 141 - And I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind...
Page 139 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.
Page 57 - Did ye never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes...
Page 29 - Have not I the Lord ? and there is no God else beside me; A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: For I am God, and there is none else.
Page 261 - And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.