 | Arnaud Bernard d' Icard Duquesne - 1881
...love to God, there is no excuse. 3. The multitude of our words. When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Our Lord here condemns the abundance of words in our private prayers, as being contrary to... | |
 | Edward John Lupson - Great Yarmouth (England) - 1881 - 259 pages
...fogtfi fcguerse fcgseases anfc orgpgnges. Matt. vi. 7 : But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. 33ut fofien ge prag, table not mudjj as tfie gpotrites fco, for tfieg tfitnfe it foill tome... | |
 | Sermons - 1883
...Christ lived, and He warned people against the sin. You remember he said : " Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." When you want something from your mother you go to her at once and ask for it, and you know... | |
 | 1886
...for they love to stand in the synagogues to be seen of men." " When ye pray, use no vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." Matt. 0: 3-7. And to the Pharisees he said " Ye devour widows houses and for a pretense... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin - Realism in art - 1888 - 35 pages
...can blame us for this since Christ himself has said : " But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." * As can be easily conceived, we have a different estimation of many things that were being... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin - Realism in art - 1889 - 35 pages
...can blame us for this since Christ himself has said : "But when ye pray, use not - vain repetitions as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." * . . .: .-;... , --з'.-л As can be easily conceived, we 'have a different estimation... | |
 | Alexander Maclaren - Sermons, English - 1891 - 344 pages
...before God. Learn, further, that earnest reiteration is not vain repetition. " Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking," said the Master. But the same Master " went away from them and prayed the third time, using... | |
 | Bible - 1891 - 652 pages
...indulge in more repetition, vain or otherwise, than is practised by the Christians in question. "i As the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." To our thinking there is something profoundly pathetic in this. The pathos, however, is... | |
 | Eugene Hatch - Christian Science - 1891 - 178 pages
...streets, that they may be seen of men." Again Jesus says, "When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." Prayer for form's sake or for the words we use, prayer made for the sake of being seen or... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion and science - 1893 - 145 pages
...Thy will be done." Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount : "When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. " Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.... | |
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But when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. 
