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BIBLETRANSLATIONINDEX.txt
Found: bwe@Matthew:1 @ ENGLISH: kjv@TITLE: Bible in Worldwide English NT kjv@DESCRIPTION: The Bible in Worldwide English (BWE)\par This New Testament was originally prepared by Annie Cressman, who died in 1993. She was a Canadian Bible teacher in Liberia in West Africa. Whilst teaching students in a Bible School where the language used was English, she found that she was spending more time explaining the meaning of the English than she was teaching the Bible itself. So she decided to write this simple version in easy English so that her students could easily understand.\par\par In 1959 the Full Gospel Publishing House in Toronto, Canada, printed a trial edition of the Gospel of Mark. A further edition was published in 1962 by the American Bible Society. The whole New Testament was first published by SOON Publications in India in 1969 in hardback form. This was assisted by Operation Mobilisation (OM) and was reprinted in 1971.\par\par The vision to reprint a new edition of the whole New Testament has now been carried out by SOON in conjunction with EPH and OM. Where a change to more modern words has been made, this has been kept in line with the the Authorised Version. kjv@RIGTHS: unknown kjv@PUBLISHER: freedom for bible ORG


BIBLETRANSLATIONINDEX.txt
Found: emtv@Matthew:1 @ ENGLISH: kjv@TITLE: English Majority Text Version kjv@DESCRIPTION: Welcome to the third edition of The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible. This latest edition has Greek explanatory notes throughout the Bible, to aid the reader in understanding the meanings in some select places of the original Koine Greek. Also, the third edition finds itself closer to the Robinson/Pierpoint printed edition of the Byzantine majority text, rather than the Hodges/Farstad text, which the EMTV was translated from. You will notice these differences in John 7:53-8:11, as well as the entire book of Revelation. The English Majority Text Version draws from the work of both Dr.’s Hodges and Farstad, and their text, “The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text,” as well as from Dr. Wilbur Pickering, ThM. PhD., and the EMTV has incorporated his hard work in the field of producing evidence of just what does constitute a majority reading, and, as a result of his work, and the work of others, John 7:53-8:11, and the book of Revelation reflect these variant readings. This is one of the great things about having a Bible that is translated from the majority of the trustworthy Byzantine manuscripts that are in existence—the much greater probability of accuracy. On the other side of the fence, most modern Bibles are translated from a few scant manuscripts (literally), and more often than not they do not even agree with each other. Not so with a Bible that is translated out of the majority! The experts in linguistics who have put these readings together, and diligently compared the manuscripts, had hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts to compare. It is my prayer that this work will bring honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to our God and Father; because all of this, all that we do, we do to know Him better, and to better understand His word, which He has given to mankind. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. (Prove 30:5,6). Peace of Christ to you all. In His service, Paul W Esposito Stauros Ministries kjv@RIGTHS: Paul W Esposito President, Stauros Ministries PO Box 3004 Cocoa, Fl. 32924 (321) 403-5782 kjv@PUBLISHER:


MOBILETRANSLATIONINDEX.txt
Found: bwe @ TITLE: Bible in Worldwide English NT DESCRIPTION: The Bible in Worldwide English (BWE)\par This New Testament was originally prepared by Annie Cressman, who died in 1993. She was a Canadian Bible teacher in Liberia in West Africa. Whilst teaching students in a Bible School where the language used was English, she found that she was spending more time explaining the meaning of the English than she was teaching the Bible itself. So she decided to write this simple version in easy English so that her students could easily understand.\par\par In 1959 the Full Gospel Publishing House in Toronto, Canada, printed a trial edition of the Gospel of Mark. A further edition was published in 1962 by the American Bible Society. The whole New Testament was first published by SOON Publications in India in 1969 in hardback form. This was assisted by Operation Mobilisation (OM) and was reprinted in 1971.\par\par The vision to reprint a new edition of the whole New Testament has now been carried out by SOON in conjunction with EPH and OM. Where a change to more modern words has been made, this has been kept in line with the the Authorised Version. RIGTHS: unknown PUBLISHER: freedom for bible ORG


MOBILETRANSLATIONINDEX.txt
Found: emtv @ TITLE: English Majority Text Version DESCRIPTION: Welcome to the third edition of The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible. This latest edition has Greek explanatory notes throughout the Bible, to aid the reader in understanding the meanings in some select places of the original Koine Greek. Also, the third edition finds itself closer to the Robinson/Pierpoint printed edition of the Byzantine majority text, rather than the Hodges/Farstad text, which the EMTV was translated from. You will notice these differences in John 7:53-8:11, as well as the entire book of Revelation. The English Majority Text Version draws from the work of both Dr.’s Hodges and Farstad, and their text, “The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text,” as well as from Dr. Wilbur Pickering, ThM. PhD., and the EMTV has incorporated his hard work in the field of producing evidence of just what does constitute a majority reading, and, as a result of his work, and the work of others, John 7:53-8:11, and the book of Revelation reflect these variant readings. This is one of the great things about having a Bible that is translated from the majority of the trustworthy Byzantine manuscripts that are in existence—the much greater probability of accuracy. On the other side of the fence, most modern Bibles are translated from a few scant manuscripts (literally), and more often than not they do not even agree with each other. Not so with a Bible that is translated out of the majority! The experts in linguistics who have put these readings together, and diligently compared the manuscripts, had hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts to compare. It is my prayer that this work will bring honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to our God and Father; because all of this, all that we do, we do to know Him better, and to better understand His word, which He has given to mankind. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. (Prove 30:5,6). Peace of Christ to you all. In His service, Paul W Esposito Stauros Ministries RIGTHS: Paul W Esposito President, Stauros Ministries PO Box 3004 Cocoa, Fl. 32924 (321) 403-5782 PUBLISHER:


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ PENAL SANCTION –– a coercive, civil punishment which honors and enforces a law by being imposed on those who violate it


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ PREMILLENNIALISM –– the eschatological view that Christ will return "before the millennium" in order to resurrect the saints (the "first resurrection"), establish a military rule from Jerusalem over the rebellious nations (the battle of Armageddon), and usher in a thousand year period of material peace and prosperity; at the end of this period the nations (still in natural bodies) will rebel and make war against Christ and the resurrected saints (the battle of Gog and Magog), who will be saved by fire from heaven, followed by the second resurrection––now of unbelievers––and the final judgment


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ SANCTIFICATION –– God's gracious and powerful work of making sinners holy in heart and conduct through the internal ministry of the Holy Spirit, applying the death and resurrection of Christ to them, so that they increasingly die to sin and live unto righteousness in the whole man


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ SOJOURNERS –– those who are alien to the people of a land but reside with them


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ UNREGENERATE –– not born again or spiritually renewed by the power of the Holy Spirit; pertaining to the "natural man" who is lost in sin, unable to do God's will or to understand the things of the Spirit


NAMESOF_.txt
Found: strkjv@Hebrews:5:9 @ Source of Eternal Salvation for all who obey him - NamesOfJesus


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: Info @

Online: Wholesome Words Christian Biography Resources


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: Wikipedia @ Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), biblical scholar and translator who served on the board of the American Bible Society


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: Wikipedia @ Jonathan Edwards, American heir of the Puritans who is often listed with them


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: 334/335 A.D. @ Synod of Tyre against Athanasius, who left in the middle, when he saw he could not get a fair hearing. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series vol.1 p.22-23


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: 1414-1417 @ Constance under Martin V -Ended Great Schism of anti-Popes. 2 Popes deposed, 1 abdicated, and 1 new Pope elected. Condemned 45 propositions of Wycliffe and 30 of Hus, who was burned at the stake.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpalexander.html @ Charles M. Alexander (1867-1920) American evangelistic gospel song leader.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpbliss.html @ Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876) American hymn writer and Gospel singer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpbonar.html @ Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) Scottish hymn writer, poet, and preacher.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpbradbury.html @ William B. Bradbury (1816-1868) American composer of Gospel songs and hymns.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpbrainerd.html @ David Brainerd (1718-1747) Missionary to American Indians.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpbunyan.html @ John Bunyan (1628-1688) English preacher and writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpcambridge7.html @ Cambridge Seven  Seven young Englishmen who went to China as missionaries.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpcarey.html @ William Carey (1761-1834) English Baptist missionary to India.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpchafer.html @ Lewis S. Chafer (1871-1952) American Bible teacher, evangelist, educator, writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpchalmers.html @ James Chalmers (1841-1901). Scottish missionary-explorer to the S. Pacific Islands.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpchapman.html @ J. Wilbur Chapman (1859-1918) American evangelist, revivalist and pastor.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpcowper.html @ William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpcrosby.html @ Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) American hymn writer and poetess.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpcushing.html @ William O. Cushing (1823-1902) American minister and hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpdehaan.html @ Martin R. DeHaan (1891-1965) American Bible teacher, pastor, and author.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpdoane.html @ William H. Doane (1832-1915) American composer of hymns and Gospel songs.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpevans.html @ Christmas Evans (1766-1838) Welsh Baptist preacher.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpexcell.html @ Edwin O. Excell (1851-1921) American composer of hymns and music director.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpgeddie.html @ John Geddie (1815-1872) Canadian missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu).


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpgilmour.html @ James Gilmour (1843-1891) Pioneer Scottish missionary to Mongolia.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpginsburg.html @ Solomon L. Ginsburg (1867-1927) Polish-born, Baptist missionary to Brazil.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpgoforth.html @ Jonathan Goforth (1859-1936) Canadian missionary to China.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpgreene.html @ Oliver B. Greene (1915-1976) American evangelist and author.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpgrenfell.html @ George Grenfell (1849-1906) English Baptist missionary to Africa.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorphavergal.html @ Frances R. Havergal (1836-1879) English poet and hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorphenry.html @ Matthew Henry (1662-1714) English minister and Bible commentator.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorphoffman.html @ Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) American minister and Gospel song and hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpironside.html @ Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) American Bible teacher, pastor, and author.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpjones.html @ Sam P. Jones (1847-1906) American evangelist.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpjudson.html @ Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Baptist missionary to Burma.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpannjudson.html @ Ann H. Judson (1789-1826) "The First Lady of American foreign missions."


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpjudsonemily.html @ Emily C. Judson (1817-1854) Author and third wife of missionary Adoniram Judson.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpjudsonsarah.html @ Sarah B. Judson (1803-1845) Second wife of missionary Adoniram Judson.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpkirkpatrick.html @ William J. Kirkpatrick (1838-1921) American sacred music composer and publisher.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorplivingstone.html @ David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish missionary and explorer to Africa.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorplowry.html @ Robert Lowry (1826-1899) American, Baptist minister and Gospel song/hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmcheyne.html @ Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843) Scottish preacher of the Gospel.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmcgran.html @ James McGranahan (1840-1907) American Gospel song and hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmackay.html @ Alexander Mackay (1849-1890) Pioneer Scottish missionary to Uganda, Africa.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmackintosh.html @ Charles H. Mackintosh (1820-1896) Irish preacher, Bible expositor, and author.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmarsden.html @ Samuel Marsden (1764-1838) English missionary to New South Wales & New Zealand.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmoffat.html @ Robert Moffat (1795-1883) Pioneer Scottish missionary to South Africa.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmoody.html @ Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmueller.html @ George Muller (1805-1898) English evangelist and philanthropist.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpnewton.html @ John Newton (1725-1807) English hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpnott.html @ Henry Nott (1774-1844) English missionary to Tahiti (Society Islands).


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorppaton.html @ John G. Paton (1824-1907) Scottish missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu).


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorppierson.html @ Arthur T. Pierson (1837-1911) American pastor, Bible expositor, editor.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpsankey.html @ Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908) American Gospel singer and composer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpscofield.html @ Cyrus I. Scofield (1843-1921) American lawyer, pastor, Bible teacher and author.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpslessor.html @ Mary Slessor (1848-1915) Scottish missionary to Africa.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpsmith.html @ Gipsy Smith (1860-1947) English evangelist.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpspurgeon.html @ Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher, author, and editor.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpspurgeonmrs.html @ Susannah T. Spurgeon (1832-1903) Author, book supplier, wife of C. H. Spurgeon.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpstebbins.html @ George C. Stebbins (1846-1945) American Gospel hymn composer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpstudd.html @ C.T. Studd (1860-1931) English missionary to China, India, and Africa.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpsunday.html @ Billy Sunday (1862-1935) American evangelist.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorptaylor.html @ Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) English missionary to China.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorptorrey.html @ Reuben A. Torrey (1856-1928) American evangelist, pastor, and author.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorptowner.html @ Daniel B. Towner (1850-1919) American Gospel music composer and teacher.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorptyndale.html @ William Tyndale (1494?-1536) English translator of the Bible and Reformer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpwatts.html @ Isaac Watts (1674-1748) English preacher, poet, and hymn writer.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpcwesley.html @ Charles Wesley (1707-1788) English hymn writer, poet, and preacher.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpwilson.html @ Walter L. Wilson (1881-1969) American Bible teacher, author, and medical doctor.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpwhittle.html @ Daniel W. Whittle (1840-1901) American evangelist.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpwolston.html @ Walter T. P. Wolston (1840-1917) English Gospel preacher, and author.


WEBCHURCHHISTORY.txt
Found: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpwycliffe.html @ John Wycliffe (d. 1384) English preacher, writer and Bible translator.


WEBCHRISTIANITYSTUDY.txt
Found: RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS @ Restoration Movement, also known as the "Stone-Campbell movement": a group of religious reform movements that arose during the Second Great Awakening and sought to renew the whole Christian church "after the New Testament pattern", in contrast to divided Christendom, of Catholicism and Protestantism.


WEBCHRISTIANITYSTUDY.txt
Found: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS @ Christian left: those who hold a strong Christian belief and share left-wing or liberal ideals.


WEBCHRISTIANITYSTUDY.txt
Found: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS @ Christian libertarianism: those who are committed to non-aggression and property rights, strongly opposed to State coercion and (military, social, and economic) interventionism as unjustifiable on Christian ethical grounds, advocate the promotion of virtue by persuasion only and either minimal government or no government (see Christian anarchism).


WEBCHRISTIANITYSTUDY.txt
Found: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS @ Christian socialism: those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist, broadly including Liberation theology and the doctrine of the social gospel.


WEBCHRISTIANITYSTUDY.txt
Found: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS @ Evangelical left: part of the Christian evangelical movement but who generally function on the left wing of that movement, either politically or theologically, or both.


WEBCHRISTIANITYSTUDY.txt
Found: PHILOSOPHICAL MOVEMENTS @ Christian pacifism: Christian churches, groups or communities teaching that Jesus was himself a pacifist who taught and practiced total nonviolence, and that his followers must do likewise.


NGRAMGOSPEL.txt
Found: 4 @ filter:NT-GOSPEL I say unto you, That whosoever


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Genesis:1

@ GENESIS - The word "genesis" signifies "generation" or "origin" and comes from the Greek translation of kjv@Genesis:2:4. It is an appropriate title for the first book of the Bible, which contains the record of the origin of the universe, the human race, family life, nations, sin redemption, etc. The first 11 chapters, which deal with primeval or pre-Patriarchal times, present the antecedents of Hebrew history from Adam to Abraham. The remaining chapters (12 - 50) are concerned with God’s dealings with the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Jacob’s son Joseph, all "fathers" of the people whom God has chosen to carry out His plan for the redemption of mankind. The book closes with these "Chosen People" in Egypt.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Judges:1

@ JUDGES - Named after the "Judges of Israel," the heroic leaders whose deeds it records, this book covers a period of time from the death of Joshua to the birth of Samuel, an era often called "the dark ages" of Hebrew history. Here is a story, on the human side, of disobedience and disaster, and on the divine side, of direction and deliverance. Of the 13 judges named, only 3 are well known: Deborah, Gideon, and Samson.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@1Chronicles:1

@ 1CHRONICLES - In the Hebrew Canon these books formed a single volume called "Things of the days" (i.e., annals). The translators of the Greek Septuagint Version gave them the title, Paraleipomena, meaning "things left over", implying their use as a supplement to Samuel and Kings. Jerome (c. A.D. 340-420) called them "a chronicle of the whole and sacred history" from Adam to Cyrus (538 B.C.), hence their English name. Actually, Chronicles is a summary of Hebrew history that duplicates much of Samuel and Kings.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@2Chronicles:1

@ 2CHRONICLES - In the Hebrew Canon these books formed a single volume called "Things of the days" (i.e., annals). The translators of the Greek Septuagint Version gave them the title, Paraleipomena, meaning "things left over", implying their use as a supplement to Samuel and Kings. Jerome (c. A.D. 340-420) called them "a chronicle of the whole and sacred history" from Adam to Cyrus (538 B.C.), hence their English name. Actually, Chronicles is a summary of Hebrew history that duplicates much of Samuel and Kings.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Psalms:1

@ PSALMS - A collection of 150 psalms, who Hebrew name is "The Book of Praise". Authors of individual psalms include David, Solomon, Moses, Asaph, and others who are anonymous. The variety and unity of Psalms have given this book a unique place in the devotional life of the individual and the Church. Almost every aspect of man’s relation to God is depicted in these poems: simple trust, the sense of sin, appeals to a higher power in time of trouble, and the conviction that the world is in the hands of a loving God.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Isaiah:1

@ ISAIAH - This book, as is true of all the prophetical books, derives its name from the prophet whose messages it records. The unity of Isaiah, a problem related to authorship and contents, has been the subject of much debate. The message of the book is twofold: judgment upon Judah for her sins (1-39), and comfort and hope for an exiled people (40-66). In these messages of encouragement are found some of the most graphic portrayals of the Messiah in the Old Testament.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Jeremiah:1

@ JEREMIAH - Jeremiah was God’s spokesman during the decline and fall of the southern kingdom, Judah. Among the Prophets not one had a more difficult task than that of standing alone for God in the midst of the apostasy of his own people, and not one who bares his soul to his reader as does Jeremiah. Although Jeremiah announced the coming destruction of Judah, he looked beyond this judgement to a day when religion, no longer national, would be individual and spiritual. This new kind of religion would result from God’s "new covenant" with His people.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Joel:1

@ JOEL - Traditionally called the "Prophet of Pentecost," since his prophecy of the outpouring of the Spirit ( kjv@Joel:2:28 ) is quoted by Peter ( kjv@Acts:2:16 ) as being fulfilled at Pentecost, Joel was the kind of man who could see the eternal in the temporal. The occasion of his message was a devastating locust plague, which he interpreted as foreboding the Day of the Lord when God would act directly to punish His people for their sins. Joel calls upon the people of Judah to repent, promising that repentance will bring God’s blessings, material and spiritual.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Obadiah:1

@ OBADIAH - This shortest of the prophetic books, containing only 21 verses, is a scathing denunciation of the Edomites, descendants of Esau, who from the beginning had been hostile to Israel. Its message is primarily one of destruction and doom for Edom. The latter part of the prophecy is concerned with the Day of the Lord when God’s judgment will be upon other nations as well as Edom and concludes with the promise that "the kingdom shall be the Lord’s".


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Micah:1

@ MICAH - The Prophet Micah was a younger contemporary of Isaiah and spoke at a time when conditions in Judah paralleled those in the northern kingdom of Israel during Amos’ day. Micah’s messages are strikingly similar to those of Amos: many of the same sins are denounced and the same rugged, direct, indignant, and convincing language is used. While announcing God’s certain judgment upon sin, he also spoke of a sure deliverance to come through the Messiah whose place of birth he predicts.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Nahum:1

@ NAHUM - This book is a vivid prediction of the approaching downfall of Nineveh, the capital city of Assyria, one of the most warlike of the ancient heathen nations. Of the Prophet Nahum, whose name means "consolation" or "comfort", little is known. His purpose was to comfort his people, long harassed by Assyria, with the promise that this cruel and oppressing people would soon meet destruction at God’s hand.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Haggai:1

@ HAGGAI - This book, the first among the writings of the post-Exilic prophets, consists of four prophecies delivered within the space of 4 months, some 15 years after the return of the first exiles to Jerusalem. Work on the second Temple has begun shortly after the exiles’ arrival, but had been delayed for almost two decades. Haggai comes forward with a series of timely and vigorous messages challenging the people to respond wholeheartedly to a noble task - rebuilding the House of God.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Malachi:1

@ MALACHI - The name of the last book of the Old Testament and of the Prophet whose oracles it contains. Malachi ( from Hebrew meaning "my messenger") is an invaluable source concerning the Judaean Jews during the Persian period. Two themes are predomination: the sin and apostasy of Israel ( Malachi:1-2 ); and the coming judgment upon the faithless, with blessings promised for those who repent ( Malachi:3-4 ). The growing Messianic expectation in the Old Testament is apparent in Malachi by the announcement of God’s "messenger of the covenant", by whose coming Israel will be purified and judged; and of the return of the Prophet Elijah who will proclaim the Day of the Lord.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:1

@ LUKE - There is almost universal agreement that Luke, the "beloved physician" ( kjv@Colossians:4:14 ) who accompanied Paul on his missionary travels, was the author of the third Gospel. Luke wrote to present Jesus as the Universal Savior, the compassionate healer and teacher. His careful historical approach is revealed in the preface, which states that the author has traced "all things from the very first". Unlike Mark, this author includes an account of the Virgin Birth, and unlike Matthew he extensively describes the Perean Ministry (Chapters Luke:9-18 ).


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Acts:1

@ ACTS - Addressed to a certain Theophilus, about whom nothing is known ( kjv@Acts:1:1 ), the Book of Acts records the early history of the Apostolic Church. Beginning with the Ascension of Jesus to heaven, it traces the growth of Christianity in Palestine and its spread to Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and eventually to Rome. The leading figure in the first chapters is Peter, who delivered the stirring sermon on the day of Pentecost ( Acts:2 ). The greater part of the book, however, is devoted to the experiences of Paul and his companions during their missionary endeavors. The Book of Acts provides a useful background for study of the Pauline Epistles. The introduction ( kjv@Acts:1:1 ) attests to a Lukan authorship.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Romans:1

@ ROMANS - This letter, the first in canonical order, but not the first of Paul’s Epistles, is the longest and the most influential of all the Apostle’s writings. Writing to Christians at Rome whom he hoped soon to visit, Paul presents to them his mature convictions concerning the Christian faith: the universality of sin; the impotence of the law as a means of salvation; the nature of God’s saving act in Christ, and its appropriation by faith. The letter closes with spiritual advice and some personal remarks.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Galatians:1

@ GALATIANS - Paul’s letter addressed to the churches in Galatia is the great letter on Christian freedom; in it Paul attacks the Christians who wished to exalt the law. Galatians’ emphasis is similar to the theme of Paul’s letter to the Romans. The doctrinal section, as is typical of the Pauline format, is followed by an intensely practical section in Chapters five and six.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Titus:1

@ TITUS - This is a personal letter written by the Apostle Paul to a young minister whom he had left on Crete. Like the Timothy correspondence, the letter to Titus is practical and discusses the everyday problems confronted by a young minister. This letter is probably to be dated between the first and the second letters to Timothy.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Hebrews:1

@ HEBREWS - Although tradition ascribed Hebrews to Paul, it is now generally believed to have been written by someone other than the Apostle, but certainly someone who was acquainted with Paul’s teaching. The Epistle portrays Jesus, who performed the perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world, as the great High Priest of the line of Melchizedek ( Genesis:14 ). The Bible’s only definition of faith occurs in this Epistle (Chap. Hebrews:11 ) and is followed by the "great line of splendor" of the men of faith.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@James:1

@ JAMES - The author of this letter introduces himself as "James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ". Four men in the New Testament bore this name but the writer of this Epistle is usually identified with James who was the leader of the church in Jerusalem. The letter is addressed to the "the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad", and is the most Jewish in style and form of any of the New Testament books. It is not a treatise on Christian theology but rather a practical letter dealing with Christian ethics. James insists that works, not words, are the mark of a disciple.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@2Peter:1

@ 2PETER - This letter was a "reminder" to the readers of the truth of the Gospel, which they had received as against the attacks of false teachers who would pervert it. The author urges his hearers to remain steadfast even amidst persecution and reminds them that the Lord will keep His promises. He speaks of the "day of the Lord" (parousia) and of the necessity of keeping themselves "without spot and blameless" ( kjv@2Peter:3:14 )


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Jude:1

@ JUDE - The author of this short letter warns his readers against the dangers of apostasy, and points to the faithlessness of the Israelites as a reminder of God’s judgment. Surrounded as his readers were by moral corruption and apostacizing influences, the author urges them to "contend for the faith" ( Jude:3 ), and in a closing benediction he commends them to the One "who is able to keep you from falling" ( Jude:24 ). Both the similarity of this letter to II Peter and Jude’s use of non-Biblical sources ( Jude:9 , Jude:14-15 ) have been the subject of much discussion.


BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Revelation:1

@ REVELATION - This last book of the Bible identifies itself as "the revelation of Jesus Christ", and its author is designated "his servant John" who was exiled to the Greek island of Patmos because of his faith. Traditionally, John is identified with the author of the Fourth Gospel. Addressed to seven historical churches in Asia Minor, the Book of Revelation was written to warn against spiritual indifference and to elicit courage under persecution. Because of the extensive use of symbolism and picturesque imagery, its interpretation has posed many problem for the student of the Bible. While recognizing the historical situation (Roman persecution) that elicited this writing, many interpreters look upon it as a prophecy depicting events that were to take place at the end of the age. The ultimate victory of Christ is the dominant theme of this book.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JANUARY10 AM @ I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.-strkjv@1Thessalonians:5:23 strkjv@Ephesians:5:25-27. strkjv@Colossians:1:28 strkjv@Philippians:4:7. strkjv@Colossians:3:15 strkjv@2Thessalonians:2:16-17. strkjv@1Corinthians:1:8.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JANUARY13 AM @ Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.-strkjv@Isaiah:26:3 strkjv@Psalms:55:22. strkjv@Isaiah:12:2 strkjv@Matthew:8:26. strkjv@Philippians:4:6-7. strkjv@Isaiah:30:15 strkjv@Isaiah:32:17. strkjv@John:14:27. strkjv@Revelation:1:4.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JANUARY31 PM @ If a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him?-strkjv@1Samuel:2:25 strkjv@1John:2:1-2. strkjv@Romans:3:25-26 strkjv@Job:33:24 strkjv@Romans:8:31-33-34.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: FEBRUARY4 PM @ They talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.-strkjv@Psalms:69:26 strkjv@Zechariah:1:15 strkjv@Galatians:6:1 strkjv@James:5:20. strkjv@1Thessalonians:5:14 strkjv@Romans:14:13. strkjv@Romans:15:1 strkjv@1Corinthians:13:4-6. strkjv@1Corinthians:10:12.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: FEBRUARY10 AM @ The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single thy whole body also is full of light.-strkjv@Luke:11:34 strkjv@1Corinthians:2:14. strkjv@Psalms:119:18 strkjv@John:8:12. strkjv@2Corinthians:3:18. strkjv@2Corinthians:4:6 strkjv@Ephesians:1:17-18.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: FEBRUARY17 AM @ The whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire.-strkjv@Leviticus:4:12 strkjv@John:19:16-18. strkjv@Hebrews:13:11-13. strkjv@Philippians:3:10 strkjv@1Peter:4:13. strkjv@2Corinthians:4:17.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: FEBRUARY28 AM @ God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.-strkjv@John:3:16 strkjv@2Corinthians:5:18-21. strkjv@1John:4:8-11.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MARCH8 PM @ I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able.-strkjv@2Timothy:1:12 strkjv@Ephesians:3:20 strkjv@2Corinthians:9:8 strkjv@Hebrews:2:18 strkjv@Hebrews:7:25 strkjv@Jude:1:24 strkjv@2Timothy:1:12 strkjv@Philippians:3:21 strkjv@Matthew:9:28-29.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MARCH26 AM @ The kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods . . . to every man according to his several ability.-strkjv@Matthew:25:14-15 strkjv@Romans:6:16 strkjv@1Corinthians:12:11 strkjv@1Corinthians:12:7. strkjv@1Peter:4:10. strkjv@1Corinthians:4:2. strkjv@Luke:12:48 strkjv@2Corinthians:2:16. strkjv@Philippians:4:13.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MAY7 PM @ They persecute him whom thou hast smitten.-strkjv@Psalms:69:2. strkjv@Luke:17:1. strkjv@Acts:2:23. strkjv@Matthew:26:67-68. strkjv@Matthew:27:41-42. strkjv@Acts:4:27-28 strkjv@Isaiah:53:4.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MAY16 PM @ I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel.-strkjv@Psalms:16:7 strkjv@Isaiah:9:6. strkjv@Proverbs:8:14. strkjv@Psalms:119:105. strkjv@Proverbs:3:5-6 strkjv@Jeremiah:10:23. strkjv@Isaiah:30:21. strkjv@Proverbs:16:3. strkjv@Job:23:10. strkjv@Proverbs:20:24 strkjv@Psalms:73:24. strkjv@Psalms:48:14.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JULY27 AM @ Christ, who is the image of God.-strkjv@2Corinthians:4:4. strkjv@Isaiah:40:5. strkjv@John:1:18 strkjv@John:1:14. strkjv@John:14:9. strkjv@Hebrews:1:3. - strkjv@1Timothy:. 3:16 strkjv@Colossians:1:14-15. strkjv@Romans:8:29 strkjv@1Corinthians:15:49.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: AUGUST7 AM @ The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.-strkjv@John:14:26 strkjv@John:4:10. strkjv@Luke:11:13. strkjv@John:16:23-24. strkjv@James:4:2 strkjv@John:16:13-14 strkjv@Isaiah:63:10.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: OCTOBER10 AM @ The whole family in heaven and earth.-strkjv@Ephesians:3:15. strkjv@Ephesians:4:6. strkjv@Galatians:3:26. strkjv@Ephesians:1:10 strkjv@Hebrews:2:11. strkjv@Matthew:12:49-50. strkjv@John:20:17 strkjv@Revelation:6:9-11. strkjv@Hebrews:11:40.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: OCTOBER27 PM @ He whom thou blessest is blessed.-strkjv@Numbers:22:6 strkjv@Matthew:5:3-12. strkjv@Luke:11:28 strkjv@Revelation:22:14.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: NOVEMBER6 AM @ When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.-strkjv@Colossians:3:4 strkjv@John:11:25. strkjv@1John:5:11-12 strkjv@1Thessalonians:4:16-18. strkjv@1John:3:2. strkjv@1Corinthians:15:43 strkjv@John:14:3.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: NOVEMBER8 AM @ Let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.-strkjv@1Thessalonians:5:8 strkjv@1Peter:1:13. strkjv@Ephesians:6:14-16-17 strkjv@Isaiah:25:8-9 strkjv@Hebrews:11:1.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: NOVEMBER15 AM @ God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.-strkjv@1Corinthians:1:9 strkjv@Hebrews:10:23. strkjv@2Corinthians:6:16. strkjv@1John:1:3. strkjv@1Peter:4:13 strkjv@Ephesians:3:17-19 strkjv@1John:4:15. strkjv@1John:3:24.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: NOVEMBER28 PM @ As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that he might deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.-strkjv@Hebrews:2:14-15 strkjv@1Corinthians:15:55-57. strkjv@2Corinthians:4:16 strkjv@2Corinthians:5:1 strkjv@2Corinthians:5:6-8 strkjv@John:14:1-3.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: DECEMBER7 AM @ He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.-strkjv@2Corinthians:5:21 strkjv@Isaiah:53:6. strkjv@1Peter:2:24. strkjv@Romans:5:19 strkjv@Titus:3:4-7. strkjv@Romans:8:1 strkjv@Jeremiah:23:6.


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: DECEMBER9 PM @ The spirit shall return unto God who gave it.-strkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:7 strkjv@Genesis:2:7. strkjv@Job:32:8. strkjv@1Corinthians:15:45. strkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:21 strkjv@2Corinthians:5:6-8. strkjv@Philippians:1:23. strkjv@1Thessalonians:4:13-14 strkjv@John:14:2-3.


RPAUDIO.txt
Found: BackToThePsalms001 @ Part 2 Why is the man who does not follow this scriptural pathway not this special type of happy? @


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RPAUDIO.txt
Found: BackToThePsalms001 @ Part 5 Why is it that this man who delights/meditates in the LORD's Law can be so happy? @


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COPYRIGHTINDEX.txt
Found: bwe @ TITLE: Bible in Worldwide English NT DESCRIPTION: The Bible in Worldwide English (BWE)\par This New Testament was originally prepared by Annie Cressman, who died in 1993. She was a Canadian Bible teacher in Liberia in West Africa. Whilst teaching students in a Bible School where the language used was English, she found that she was spending more time explaining the meaning of the English than she was teaching the Bible itself. So she decided to write this simple version in easy English so that her students could easily understand.\par\par In 1959 the Full Gospel Publishing House in Toronto, Canada, printed a trial edition of the Gospel of Mark. A further edition was published in 1962 by the American Bible Society. The whole New Testament was first published by SOON Publications in India in 1969 in hardback form. This was assisted by Operation Mobilisation (OM) and was reprinted in 1971.\par\par The vision to reprint a new edition of the whole New Testament has now been carried out by SOON in conjunction with EPH and OM. Where a change to more modern words has been made, this has been kept in line with the the Authorised Version. RIGTHS: unknown PUBLISHER: freedom for bible ORG


COPYRIGHTINDEX.txt
Found: emtv @ TITLE: English Majority Text Version DESCRIPTION: Welcome to the third edition of The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible. This latest edition has Greek explanatory notes throughout the Bible, to aid the reader in understanding the meanings in some select places of the original Koine Greek. Also, the third edition finds itself closer to the Robinson/Pierpoint printed edition of the Byzantine majority text, rather than the Hodges/Farstad text, which the EMTV was translated from. You will notice these differences in John 7:53-8:11, as well as the entire book of Revelation. The English Majority Text Version draws from the work of both Dr.’s Hodges and Farstad, and their text, “The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text,” as well as from Dr. Wilbur Pickering, ThM. PhD., and the EMTV has incorporated his hard work in the field of producing evidence of just what does constitute a majority reading, and, as a result of his work, and the work of others, John 7:53-8:11, and the book of Revelation reflect these variant readings. This is one of the great things about having a Bible that is translated from the majority of the trustworthy Byzantine manuscripts that are in existence—the much greater probability of accuracy. On the other side of the fence, most modern Bibles are translated from a few scant manuscripts (literally), and more often than not they do not even agree with each other. Not so with a Bible that is translated out of the majority! The experts in linguistics who have put these readings together, and diligently compared the manuscripts, had hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts to compare. It is my prayer that this work will bring honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to our God and Father; because all of this, all that we do, we do to know Him better, and to better understand His word, which He has given to mankind. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. (Prove 30:5,6). Peace of Christ to you all. In His service, Paul W Esposito Stauros Ministries RIGTHS: Paul W Esposito President, Stauros Ministries PO Box 3004 Cocoa, Fl. 32924 (321) 403-5782 PUBLISHER:


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:1:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For who that had sojourned among you did not approve your most virtuous and steadfast faith? Who did not admire your sober and forbearing piety in Christ? Who did not publish abroad your magnificent disposition of hospitality? Who did not congratulate you on your perfect and sound knowledge?


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:5:1 <1CLEMENT>@ But, to pass from the examples of ancient days, let us come to those champions who lived nearest to our time. Let us set before us the noble examples which belong to our generation.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:5:4 <1CLEMENT>@ There was Peter who by reason of unrighteous jealousy endured not one not one but many labors, and thus having borne his testimony went to his appointed place of glory.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:5:6 <1CLEMENT>@ having taught righteousness unto the whole world and having reached the farthest bounds of the West; and when he had borne his testimony before the rulers, so he departed from the world and went unto the holy place, having been found a notable pattern of patient endurance.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:6:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Unto these men of holy lives was gathered a vast multitude of the elect, who through many indignities and tortures, being the victims of jealousy, set a brave example among ourselves.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:7:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us fix our eyes on the blood of Christ and understand how precious it is unto His Father, because being shed for our salvation it won for the whole world the grace of repentance.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:8:4 <1CLEMENT>@ and He added also a merciful judgment: Repent ye, O house of Israel, of your iniquity; say unto the sons of My people, Though your sins reach from the earth even unto the heaven, and though they be redder than scarlet and blacker than sackcloth, and ye turn unto Me with your whole heart and say Father, I will give ear unto you as unto a holy people.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:9:3 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us set before us Enoch, who being found righteous in obedience was translated, and his death was not found.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:10:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Abraham, who was called the 'friend,' was found faithful in that he rendered obedience unto the words of God.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:12:4 <1CLEMENT>@ And when the messengers of the king came near and said, The spies of our land entered in unto thee: bring them forth, for the king so ordereth: then she answered, The men truly, whom ye seek, entered in unto me, but they departed forthwith and are sojourning on the way; and she pointed out to them the opposite road.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:13:4 <1CLEMENT>@ For the holy word saith, Upon whom shall I look, save upon him that is gentle and quiet and feareth Mine oracles?


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:14:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Therefore it is right and proper, brethren, that we should be obedient unto God, rather than follow those who in arrogance and unruliness have set themselves up as leaders in abominable jealousy.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:14:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For we shall bring upon us no common harm, but rather great peril, if we surrender ourselves recklessly to the purposes of men who launch out into strife and seditions, so as to estrange us from that which is right.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:15:5 <1CLEMENT>@ For this cause let the deceitful lips be made dumb which speak iniquity against the righteous. And again May the Lord utterly destroy all the deceitful lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things, even them that say, Let us magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:16:3 <1CLEMENT>@ For He saith Lord, who believed our report? and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? We announced Him in His presence. As a child was He, as a root in a thirsty ground. There is no form in Him, neither glory. And we beheld Him, and He had no form nor comeliness, but His form was mean, lacking more than the form of men. He was a man of stripes and of toil, and knowing how to bear infirmity: for His face is turned away. He was dishonored and held of no account.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:16:8 <1CLEMENT>@ His generation who shall declare? For His life is taken away from the earth.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:16:17 <1CLEMENT>@ Ye see, dearly beloved, what is the pattern that hath been given unto us; for, if the Lord was thus lowly of mind, what should we do, who through Him have been brought under the yoke of His grace?


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:18:1 <1CLEMENT>@ But what must we say of David that obtained a good report? of whom God said, I have found a man after My heart, David the son of Jesse: with eternal mercy have I anointed him.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:18:13 <1CLEMENT>@ For, if Thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would have given it: in whole burnt offerings Thou wilt have no pleasure.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:19:1 <1CLEMENT>@ The humility therefore and the submissiveness of so many and so great men, who have thus obtained a good report, hath through obedience made better not only us but also the generations which were before us, even them that received His oracles in fear and truth.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:19:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Seeing then that we have been partakers of many great and glorious doings, let us hasten to return unto the goal of peace which hath been handed down to us from the beginning, and let us look steadfastly unto the Father and Maker of the whole world, and cleave unto His splendid and excellent gifts of peace and benefits.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:20:11 <1CLEMENT>@ All these things the great Creator and Master of the universe ordered to be in peace and concord, doing good unto all things, but far beyond the rest unto us who have taken refuge in His compassionate mercies through our Lord Jesus Christ,


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:20:12 <1CLEMENT>@ to whom be the glory and the majesty for ever and ever. Amen.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:21:5 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us rather give offense to foolish and senseless men who exalt themselves and boast in the arrogance of their words, than to God.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:21:6 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us fear the Lord Jesus Christ, whose blood was given for us. Let us reverence our rulers; let us honor our elders; let us instruct our young men in the lesson of the fear of God. Let us guide our women toward that which is good:


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:21:9 <1CLEMENT>@ For He is the searcher out of the intents and desires; whose breath is in us, and when He listeth, He shall take it away.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:23:1 <1CLEMENT>@ The Father, who is pitiful in all things, and ready to do good, hath compassion on them that fear Him, and kindly and lovingly bestoweth His favors on them that draw nigh unto Him with a single mind.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:23:5 <1CLEMENT>@ Of a truth quickly and suddenly shall His will be accomplished, the scripture also bearing witness to it, saying He shall come quickly and shall not tarry; and the Lord shall come suddenly into His temple, even the Holy One, whom ye expect.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:27:5 <1CLEMENT>@ Who shall say unto Him, What hast thou done? or who shall resist the might of His strength? When He listeth, and as He listeth, He will do all things; and nothing shall pass away of those things that He hath decreed.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:27:7 <1CLEMENT>@ seeing that The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth His handiwork. Day uttereth word unto day, and night proclaimeth knowledge unto night; and there are neither words nor speeches, whose voices are not heard.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:29:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore approach Him in holiness of soul, lifting up pure and undefiled hands unto Him, with love towards our gentle and compassionate Father who made us an elect portion unto Himself.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:30:3 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore cleave unto those to whom grace is given from God. Let us clothe ourselves in concord, being lowlyminded and temperate, holding ourselves aloof from all back biting and evil speaking, being justified by works and not by words.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:30:7 <1CLEMENT>@ Let the testimony to our well doing be given by others, as it was given unto our fathers who were righteous.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:32:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For of Jacob are all the priests and levites who minister unto the altar of God; of him is the Lord Jesus as concerning the flesh; of him are kings and rulers and governors in the line of Judah; yea and the rest of his tribes are held in no small honor, seeing that God promised saying, Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven.


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Found: 1Clement:32:4 <1CLEMENT>@ And so we, having been called through His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified through ourselves or through our own wisdom or understanding or piety or works which we wrought in holiness of heart, but through faith, whereby the Almighty God justified all men that have been from the beginning; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 1Clement:34:4 <1CLEMENT>@ He exhorteth us therefore to believe on Him with our whole heart, and to be not idle nor careless unto every good work.


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Found: 1Clement:34:5 <1CLEMENT>@ Let our boast and our confidence be in Him: let us submit ourselves to His will; let us mark the whole host of His angels, how they stand by and minister unto His will.


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Found: 1Clement:37:5 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us take our body as an example. The head without the feet is nothing; so likewise the feet without the head are nothing: even the smallest limbs of our body are necessary and useful for the whole body: but all the members conspire and unite in subjection, that the whole body maybe saved.


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Found: 1Clement:38:1 <1CLEMENT>@ So in our case let the whole body be saved in Christ Jesus, and let each man be subject unto his neighbor, according as also he was appointed with his special grace.


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Found: 1Clement:38:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Let not the strong neglect the weak; and let the weak respect the strong. Let the rich minister aid to the poor; and let the poor give thanks to God, because He hath given him one through whom his wants may be supplied. Let the wise display his wisdom, not in words, but in good works. He that is lowly in mind, let him not bear testimony to himself, but leave testimony to be borne to him by his neighbor. He that is pure in the flesh, let him be so, and not boast, knowing that it is Another who bestoweth his continence upon him.


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Found: 1Clement:38:3 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us consider, brethren, of what matter we were made; who and what manner of beings we were, when we came into the world; from what a sepulchre and what darkness He that molded and created us brought us into His world, having prepared His benefits aforehand ere ever we were born.


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Found: 1Clement:38:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Seeing therefore that we have all these things from Him, we ought in all things to give thanks to Him, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 1Clement:40:3 <1CLEMENT>@ And where and by whom He would have them performed, He Himself fixed by His supreme will: that all things being done with piety according to His good pleasure might be acceptable to His will.


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Found: 1Clement:41:3 <1CLEMENT>@ They therefore who do any thing contrary to the seemly ordinance of His will receive death as the penalty.


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Found: 1Clement:43:1 <1CLEMENT>@ And what marvel, if they which were entrusted in Christ with such a work by God appointed the aforesaid persons? seeing that even the blessed Moses who was a faithful servant in all His house recorded for a sign in the sacred books all things that were enjoined upon him. And him also the rest of the prophets followed, bearing witness with him unto the laws that were ordained by him.


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Found: 1Clement:43:4 <1CLEMENT>@ And he said unto them, Brethren, the tribe whose rod shall bud, this hath God chosen to be priests and ministers unto Him.


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Found: 1Clement:43:6 <1CLEMENT>@ What think ye, dearly beloved? Did not Moses know beforehand that this would come to pass? Assuredly he knew it. But that disorder might not arise in Israel, he did thus, to the end that the Name of the true and only God might be glorified: to whom he the glory for ever and ever. Amen...


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Found: 1Clement:44:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For this cause therefore, having received complete foreknowledge, they appointed the aforesaid persons, and afterwards they provided a continuance, that if these should fall asleep, other approved men should succeed to their ministration. Those therefore who were appointed by them, or afterward by other men of repute with the consent of the whole Church, and have ministered unblamably to the flock of Christ in lowliness of mind, peacefully and with all modesty, and for long time have borne a good report with all these men we consider to be unjustly thrust out from their ministration.


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Found: 1Clement:44:3 <1CLEMENT>@ For it will be no light sin for us, if we thrust out those who have offered the gifts of the bishop's office unblamably and holily.


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Found: 1Clement:44:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Blessed are those presbyters who have gone before, seeing that their departure was fruitful and ripe: for they have no fear lest any one should remove them from their appointed place.


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Found: 1Clement:45:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Righteous men were persecuted, but it was by the lawless; they were imprisoned, but it was by the unholy. They were stoned by transgressors: they were slain by those who had conceived a detestable and unrighteous jealousy.


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Found: 1Clement:45:7 <1CLEMENT>@ Or were Ananias and Azarias and Misael shut up in the furnace of fire by them that professed the excellent and glorious worship of the Most High? Far be this from our thoughts. Who then were they that did these things? Abominable men and full of all wickedness were stirred up to such a pitch of wrath, as to bring cruel suffering upon them that served God in a holy and blameless purpose, not knowing that the Most High is the champion and protector of them that in a pure conscience serve His excellent Name: unto whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 1Clement:47:5 <1CLEMENT>@ But now mark ye, who they are that have perverted you and diminished the glory of your renowned love for the brotherhood.


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Found: 1Clement:50:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Who is sufficient to be found therein, save those to whom God shall vouchsafe it? Let us therefore entreat and ask of His mercy, that we may be found blameless in love, standing apart from the factiousness of men. All the generations from Adam unto this day have passed away: but they that by God's grace were perfected in love dwell in the abode of the pious; and they shall be made manifest in the visitation of the Kingdom of God.


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Found: 1Clement:50:5 <1CLEMENT>@ For it is written; Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall impute no sin, neither is guile in his mouth.


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Found: 1Clement:50:6 <1CLEMENT>@ This declaration of blessedness was pronounced upon them that have been elected by God through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 1Clement:51:1 <1CLEMENT>@ For all our transgressions which we have committed through any of the wiles of the adversary, let us entreat that we may obtain forgiveness. Yea and they also, who set themselves up as leaders of faction and division, ought to look to the common ground of hope.


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Found: 1Clement:51:3 <1CLEMENT>@ For it is good for a man to make confession of his trespasses rather than to harden his heart, as the heart of those was hardened who made sedition against Moses the servant of God; whose condemnation was clearly manifest,


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Found: 1Clement:53:2 <1CLEMENT>@ When Moses went up into the mountain and had spent forty days and forty nights in fasting and humiliation, God said unto him; Moses, Moses, come down , quickly hence, for My people whom thou leadest forth from the land of Egypt have wrought iniquity: they have transgressed quickly out of the way which thou didst command unto them: they have made for themselves molten images.


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Found: 1Clement:55:6 <1CLEMENT>@ To no less peril did Esther also, who was perfect in faith, expose herself, that she might deliver the twelve tribes of Israel, when they were on the point to perish. For through her fasting and her humiliation she entreated the all seeing Master, the God of the ages; and He, seeing the humility of her soul, delivered the people for whose sake she encountered the peril.


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Found: 1Clement:56:4 <1CLEMENT>@ For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.


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Found: 1Clement:56:6 <1CLEMENT>@ And again He saith; Blessed is the man whom the Lord hath reproved, and refuse not thou the admonition of the Almighty. For He causeth pain, and he restoreth again:


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Found: 1Clement:58:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Receive our counsel, and ye shall have no occasion of regret. For as God liveth, and the Lord Jesus Christ liveth, and the Holy Spirit, who are the faith and the hope of the elect, so surely shall he, who with lowliness of mind and instant in gentleness hath without regretfulness performed the ordinances and commandments that are given by God, be enrolled and have a name among the number of them that are saved through Jesus Christ, through whom is the glory unto Him for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 1Clement:59:2 <1CLEMENT>@ but we shall be guiltless of this sin. And we will ask, with instancy of prayer and supplication, that the Creator of the universe may guard intact unto the end the number that hath been numbered of His elect throughout the whole world, through His beloved Son Jesus Christ, through whom He called us from darkness to light, from ignorance to the full knowledge of the glory of His Name.


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Found: 1Clement:59:3 <1CLEMENT>@ Grant unto us, Lord, that we may set our hope on Thy Name which is the primal source of all creation, and open the eyes of our hearts, that we may know Thee, who alone abidest Highest in the lofty, Holy in the holy; who layest low in the insolence of the proud, who settest the lowly on high, and bringest the lofty low; who makest rich and makest poor; who killest and makest alive; who alone art the Benefactor of spirits and the God of all flesh; who lookest into the abysses, who scanest the works of man; the Succor of them that are in peril, the Savior of them that are in despair; The Creator and Overseer of every spirit; who multipliest the nations upon earth, and hast chosen out from all men those that love Thee through Jesus Christ, Thy beloved Son, through whom Thou didst instruct us, didst sanctify us, didst honor us.


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Found: 1Clement:59:4 <1CLEMENT>@ We beseech Thee, Lord and Master, to be our help and succor. Save those among us who are in tribulation; have mercy on the lowly; lift up the fallen; show Thyself unto the needy; heal the ungodly; convert the wanderers of Thy people; feed the hungry; release our prisoners; raise up the weak; comfort the fainthearted. Let all the Gentiles know that Thou art the God alone, and Jesus Christ is Thy Son, and we are Thy people and the sheep of Thy pasture.


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Found: 1Clement:61:3 <1CLEMENT>@ O Thou, who alone art able to do these things and things far more exceeding good than these for us, we praise Thee through the High priest and Guardian of our souls, Jesus Christ, through whom be the glory and the majesty unto Thee both now and for all generations and for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 1Clement:62:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For concerning faith and repentance and genuine love and temperance and sobriety and patience we have handled every argument, putting you in remembrance, that ye ought to please Almighty God in righteousness and truth and long suffering with holiness, laying aside malice and pursuing concord in love and peace, being instant in gentleness; even as our fathers, of whom we spake before, pleased Him, being lowly minded toward their Father and God and Creator and towards all men.


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Found: 1Clement:62:3 <1CLEMENT>@ And we have put you in mind of these things the more gladly, since we knew well that we were writing to men who are faithful and highly accounted and have diligently searched into the oracles of the teaching of God.


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Found: 1Clement:63:3 <1CLEMENT>@ And we have also sent faithful and prudent men that have walked among us from youth unto old age unblamably, who shall also be witnesses between you and us.


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Found: 1Clement:64:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Finally may the All seeing God and Master of spirits and Lord of all flesh, who chose the Lord Jesus Christ, and us through Him for a peculiar people, grant unto every soul that is called after His excellent and holy Name faith, fear, peace, patience, long-suffering, temperance, chastity and soberness, that they may be well pleasing unto His Name through our High priest and Guardian Jesus Christ, through whom unto Him be glory and majesty, might and honor, both now and for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 1Clement:65:2 <1CLEMENT>@ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you and with all men in all places who have been called by God and through Him, through whom be glory and honor, power and greatness and eternal dominion, unto Him, from the ages past and forever and ever. Amen.


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Found: 2Clement:1:2 <2CLEMENT>@ And we ought not to think mean things of our Salvation: for when we think mean things of Him, we expect also to receive mean things. And they that listen as concerning mean things do wrong; and we ourselves do wrong, not knowing whence and by whom and unto what place we were called, and how many things Jesus Christ endured to suffer for our sakes.


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Found: 2Clement:1:6 <2CLEMENT>@ We who were maimed in our understanding, and worshipped stocks and stones and gold and silver and bronze, the works of men; and our whole life was nothing else but death. While then we were thus wrapped in darkness and oppressed with this thick mist in our vision, we recovered our sight, putting off by His will the cloud wherein we were wrapped.


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Found: 2Clement:2:3 <2CLEMENT>@ Again, in that He said, For the children of the desolate are more than of her that hath the husband, He so spake, because our people seemed desolate and forsaken of God, whereas now, having believed, we have become more than those who seemed to have God.


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Found: 2Clement:3:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Seeing then that He bestowed so great mercy on us; first of all, that we, who are living, do not sacrifice to these dead gods, neither worship them, but through Him have known the Father of truth. What else is this knowledge to Himward, but not to deny Him through whom we have known Him?


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Found: 2Clement:3:3 <2CLEMENT>@ This then is our reward, if verily we shall confess Him through whom we were saved.


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Found: 2Clement:3:4 <2CLEMENT>@ But wherein do we confess Him? When we do that which He saith and are not disobedient unto His commandments, and not only honor Him with our lips, but with our whole heart and with our whole mind.


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Found: 2Clement:6:2 <2CLEMENT>@ For what advantage is it, if a man gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?


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Found: 2Clement:6:9 <2CLEMENT>@ But if even such righteous men as these cannot by their righteous deeds deliver their children, with what confidence shall we, if we keep not our baptism pure and undefiled, enter into the kingdom of God? Or who shall be our advocate, unless we be found having holy and righteous works?


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Found: 2Clement:8:2 <2CLEMENT>@ For in like manner as the potter, if he be making a vessel, and it get twisted or crushed in his hands, reshapeth it again; but if he have once put it into the fiery oven, he shall no longer mend it: so also let us, while we are in this world, repent with our whole heart of the evil things which we have done in the flesh, that we may be saved by the Lord, while we have yet time for repentance.


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Found: 2Clement:8:5 <2CLEMENT>@ For the Lord saith in the Gospel, If ye kept not that which is little, who shall give unto you that which is great? For I say unto you that he which is faithful in the least, is also faithful in much.


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Found: 2Clement:9:5 <2CLEMENT>@ If Christ the Lord who saved us, being first spirit, then became flesh, and so called us, in like manner also shall we in this flesh receive our reward.


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Found: 2Clement:13:2 <2CLEMENT>@ For the Lord saith, Every way My Name is blasphemed among all the Gentiles; and again, Woe unto him by reason of whom My Name is blasphemed. Wherein is it blasphemed? In that ye do not the things which I desire.


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Found: 2Clement:15:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Now I do not think that I have given any mean council respecting continence, and whosoever performeth it shall not repent thereof, but shall save both himself and me his councilor. For it is no mean reward to convert a wondering and perishing soul, that it may be saved.


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Found: 2Clement:15:2 <2CLEMENT>@ For this is the recompense which we are able to pay to God who created us, if he that speaketh and heareth both speak and hear with faith and love.


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Found: 2Clement:15:3 <2CLEMENT>@ Let is therefore abide in the things which we believed, in righteousness and holiness, that we may with boldness as of God who saith, Whiles thou art still speaking I will say, Behold, I am here.


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Found: 2Clement:17:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore repent with our whole heart, lest any of us perish by the way. For if we have received commands, that we should make this our business, to tear men away from idols and to instruct them, how much more is it wrong that a soul which knoweth God already should perish!


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Found: 2Clement:17:7 <2CLEMENT>@ But the righteous, done good and endured torments and hated pleasures of the soul, when they shall behold them that have done amiss and denied Jesus by their words or by their deeds, how that they are punished with grievous torments in unquenchable fire, shall give glory to God, saying, There will be hope for him that hath served God with his whole heart.


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Found: 2Clement:19:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Therefore, brothers and sisters, after the God of truth hath been heard, I read unto you an exhortation to the end that ye may give heed to the things which are written, for that ye may save both yourselves and him that readeth in the midst of you. For I ask of you as a reward that ye repent with your whole heart, and give salvation and life to yourselves. For doing this we shall set a goal for all the young who desire to toil in the study of piety and of the goodness of God.


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Found: 2Clement:20:5 <2CLEMENT>@ To the only God invisible, the Father of truth, who sent forth unto us the Savior and Prince of immortality, through whom also He made manifest unto us the truth and the heavenly life, to Him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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Found: Barnabas:1:4 @ Being therefore persuaded of this, and being conscious with myself that having said much among you I know that the Lord journeyed with me on the way of righteousness, and am wholly constrained also myself to this, to love you more than my own soul (for great faith and love dwelleth in you through the hope of the life which is His)--considering this therefore, that,


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Found: Barnabas:2:4 @ For He hath made manifest to us by all the prophets that He wanteth neither sacrifices nor whole burnt offerings nor oblations, saying at one time;


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Found: Barnabas:2:5 @ What to Me is the multitude of your sacrifices, saith the Lord I am full of whole burnt-offerings, and the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and of goats desire not, not though ye should come to be seen of Me. or who required these things at your hands? Ye shall continue no more to tread My court. If ye bring fine flour, it is in vain; incense is an abomination to Me; your new moons and your Sabbaths I cannot away with.


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Found: Barnabas:2:7 @ And He saith again unto them; Did command your fathers when they went forth from the land of Egypt to bring Me whole burnt offerings and sacrifices?


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Found: Barnabas:3:6 @ To this end therefore, my brethren, He that is long-suffering, foreseeing that the people whom He had prepared in His well-beloved would believe in simplicity, manifested to us beforehand concerning all things, that we might not as novices shipwreck ourselves upon their law.


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Found: Barnabas:4:4 @ And the prophet also speaketh on this wise; Ten reigns shall reign upon the earth, and after them shall arise another king, who shall bring low three of the kings under one.


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Found: Barnabas:4:6 @ Ye ought therefore to understand. Moreover I ask you this one thing besides, as being one of yourselves and loving you all in particular more than my own soul, to give heed to yourselves now, and not to liken yourselves to certain persons who pile up sin upon sin, saying that our covenant remains to them also.


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Found: Barnabas:4:8 @ But they lost it by turning unto idols. For thus saith the Lord; Moses, Moses, come down quickly; for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt hath done unlawfully. And Moses understood, and threw the two tables from his hands; and their covenant was broken in pieces, that the covenant of the beloved Jesus might be sealed unto our hearts in the hope which springeth from faith in Him.


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Found: Barnabas:4:9 @ But though I would fain write many things, not as a teacher, but as becometh one who loveth you not to fall short of that which we possess, I was anxious to write to you, being your devoted slave. Wherefore let us take heed in these last days. For the whole time of our faith shall profit us nothing, unless we now, in the season of lawlessness and in the offenses that shall be, as becometh sons of God, offer resistance, that the Black One may not effect an entrance.


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Found: Barnabas:5:4 @ Now the scripture saith; Not unjustly is the net spread for the birds. He meaneth this that a man shall justly perish, who having the knowledge of the way of righteousness forceth himself into the way of darkness.


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Found: Barnabas:5:5 @ There is yet this also, my brethren; if the Lord endured to suffer for our souls, though He was Lord of the whole world, unto whom God said from the foundation of the world, Let us make man after our image and likeness, how then did He endure to suffer at the hand of men?


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Found: Barnabas:5:9 @ And when He chose His own apostles who were to proclaim His Gospel, who that He might show that He came not to call the righteous but sinners were sinners above every sin, then He manifested Himself to be the Son of God.


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Found: Barnabas:5:11 @ Therefore the Son of God came in the flesh to this end, that He might sum up the complete tale of their sins against those who persecuted and slew His prophets.


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Found: Barnabas:6:1 @ When then He gave the commandment, what saith He? Who is he that disputeth with Me? Let him oppose Me. Or who is he that goeth to law with Me? Let him draw nigh unto the servant of the Lord,


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Found: Barnabas:6:3 @ Then again what saith He; And whosoever shall set his hope on Him, shall live forever. Is our hope then set upon a stone? Far be it. But it is because the Lord hath set His flesh in strength. For He saith; And He set Me as a hard rock.


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Found: Barnabas:6:5 @ I write to you the more simply, that ye may understand, I who am the offscouring of your love.


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Found: Barnabas:6:9 @ But what saith knowledge? Understand ye. Set your hope on Him who is about to be manifested to you in the flesh, even Jesus. For man is earth suffering; for from the face of the earth came the creation of Adam.


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Found: Barnabas:6:10 @ What then saith He? Into the good land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Blessed is our Lord, brethren, who established among us wisdom and understanding of His secret things. For the prophet speaketh a parable concerning the Lord. Who shall comprehend, save he that is wise and prudent and that loveth his Lord?


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Found: Barnabas:6:14 @ Behold then we have been created anew, as He saith again in another prophet; Behold, saith the Lord, I will take out from these, that is to say, from those whom the Spirit of the Lord foresaw, their stony hearts, and will put into them hearts of flesh; for He Himself was to be manifested in the flesh and to dwell in us.


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Found: Barnabas:6:16 @ For the Lord saith again; For wherein shall I appear unto the Lord my God and be glorified? I will make confession unto Thee in the assembly of my brethren, and I will sing unto Thee in the midst of the assembly of the saints. We therefore are they whom He brought into the good land.


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Found: Barnabas:6:18 @ Now we have already said above; And let them increase and multiply and rule over the fishes. But who is he that is able now to rule over beasts and fishes and fowls of the heaven; for we ought to perceive that to rule implieth power, so that one should give orders and have dominion.


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Found: Barnabas:7:1 @ Understand therefore, children of gladness, that the good Lord manifested all things to us beforehand, that we might know to whom we ought in all things to render thanksgiving and praise.


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Found: Barnabas:7:3 @ But moreover when crucified He had vinegar and gall given Him to drink. Hear how on this matter the priests of the temple have revealed. Seeing that there is a commandment in scripture, Whatsoever shall not observe the fast shall surely die, the Lord commanded, because He was in His own person about to offer the vessel of His Spirit a sacrifice for our sins, that the type also which was given in Isaac who was offered upon the alter should be fulfilled.


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Found: Barnabas:7:5 @ Wherefore? Since ye are to give Me, who am to offer My flesh for the sins of My new people, gall with vinegar to drink, eat ye alone, while the people fasteth and waileth in sackcloth and ashes; that He might shew that He must suffer at their hands.


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Found: Barnabas:7:6 @ Attend ye to the commandments which He gave. Take two goats, fair and alike, and offer them, and let the priest take the one for a whole burnt offering for sins.


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Found: Barnabas:7:11 @ But what meaneth it, that they place the wool in the midst of the thorns? It is a type of Jesus set forth for the Church, since whosoever should desire to take away the scarlet wool it behoved him to suffer many things owing to the terrible nature of the thorn, and through affliction to win the mastery over it. Thus, He saith, they that desire to see Me, and to attain unto My kingdom, must lay hold on Me through tribulation and affliction.


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Found: Barnabas:8:1 @ But what think ye meaneth the type, where the commandment is given to Israel that those men, whose sins are full grown, offer an heifer and slaughter and burn it, and then that the children take up the ashes, and cast them into vessels, and twist the scarlet wool on a tree (see here again is the type of the cross and the scarlet wool), and the hyssop, and that this done the children should sprinkle the people one by one, that they may be purified from their sins?


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Found: Barnabas:8:2 @ Understand ye how in all plainness it is spoken unto you; the calf is Jesus, the men that offer it, being sinners, are they that offered Him for the slaughter. After this it is no more men (who offer); the glory is no more for sinners.


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Found: Barnabas:8:3 @ The children who sprinkle are they that preached unto us the forgiveness of sins and the purification of our heart, they to whom, being twelve in number for a testimony unto the tribes (for there are twelve tribes of Israel), He gave authority over the Gospel, that they should preach it.


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Found: Barnabas:8:5 @ Then there is the placing the wool on the tree. This means that the kingdom of Jesus is on the cross, and that they who set their hope on Him shall live for ever.


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Found: Barnabas:8:6 @ And why is there the wool and the hyssop at the same time? Because in His kingdom there shall be evil and foul days, in which we shall be saved; for he who suffers pain in the flesh is healed through the foulness of the hyssop.


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Found: Barnabas:9:6 @ Learn therefore, children of love, concerning all things abundantly, that Abraham, who first appointed circumcision, looked forward in the spirit unto Jesus, when he circumcised having received the ordinances of three letters.


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Found: Barnabas:9:8 @ He who placed within us the innate gift of His covenant knoweth; no man hath ever learnt from me a more genuine word; but I know that ye are worthy.


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Found: Barnabas:10:3 @ Accordingly he mentioned the swine with this intent. Thou shalt not cleave, saith he, to such men who are like unto swine; that is, when they are in luxury they forget the Lord, but when they are in want they recognize the Lord, just as the swine when it eateth knoweth not his lord, but when it is hungry it crieth out, and when it has received food again it is silent.


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Found: Barnabas:10:4 @ Neither shalt thou eat eagle nor falcon nor kite nor crow. Thou shalt not, He saith, cleave unto, or be likened to, such men who now not how to provide food for themselves by toil and sweat, but in their lawlessness seize what belongeth to others, and as if they were walking in guilelessness watch and search about for some one to rob in their rapacity, just as these birds alone do not provide food for themselves, but sit idle and seek how they may eat the meat that belongeth to others, being pestilent in their evil-doings.


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Found: Barnabas:10:5 @ And thou shalt not eat, saith He, lamprey nor polypus nor cuttle fish . Thou shalt not, He meaneth, become like unto such men, who are desperately wicked, and are already condemned to death, just as these fishes alone are accursed and swim in the depths, not swimming on the surface like the rest, but dwell on the ground beneath the deep sea.


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Found: Barnabas:10:8 @ Moreover He hath hated the weasel also and with good reason. Thou shalt not, saith He, become such as those men of whom we hear as working iniquity with their mouth for uncleanness, neither shalt thou cleave unto impure women who work iniquity with their mouth. For this animal conceiveth with its mouth.


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Found: Barnabas:10:10 @ And David also receiveth knowledge of the same three decrees, and saith; Blessed is the man who hath not gone in the council of the ungodly--even as the fishes go in darkness into the depths; and hath not stood in the path of sinners--just as they who pretend to fear the Lord sin like swine; and hath not sat on the seat of the destroyers--as the birds that are seated for prey. Ye have now the complete lesson concerning eating.


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Found: Barnabas:10:11 @ Again Moses saith; Ye shall everything that divideth the hoof and cheweth the cud. What meaneth he? He that receiveth the food knoweth Him that giveth him the food, and being refreshed appeareth to rejoice in him. Well said he, having regard to the commandment. What then meaneth he? Cleave unto those that fear the Lord, with those who meditate in their heart on the distinction of the word which they have received, with those who tell of the ordinances of the Lord and keep them, with those who know that meditation is a work of gladness and who chew the cud of the word of the Lord. But why that which divideth the hoof? Because the righteous man both walketh in this world, and at the same time looketh for the holy world to come. Ye see how wise a lawgiver Moses was.


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Found: Barnabas:11:9 @ And again another prophet saith; And the land of Jacob was praised above the whole earth. He meaneth this; He glorifieth the vessel of His Spirit.


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Found: Barnabas:11:10 @ Next what saith He? And there was a river streaming from the right hand, and beautiful trees rose up from it; and whosoever shall eat of them shall live forever.


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Found: Barnabas:11:11 @ This He saith, because we go down into the water laden with sins and filth, and rise up from it bearing fruit in the heart, resting our fear and hope on Jesus in the spirit. And whosoever shall eat of these shall live forever; He meaneth this; whosoever, saith He, shall hear these things spoken and shall believe, shall live forever.


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Found: Barnabas:12:1 @ In like manner again He defineth concerning the cross in another prophet, who saith; And when shall these things be accomplished? saith the Lord. Whenever a tree shall be bended and stand upright, and whensoever blood shall drop from a tree. Again thou art taught concerning the cross, and Him that was to be crucified.


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Found: Barnabas:12:4 @ And again in another prophet He saith; The whole day long have I stretched out My hands to a disobedient people that did gainsay My righteous way.


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Found: Barnabas:12:5 @ Again Moses maketh a type of Jesus, how that He must suffer, and that He Himself whom they shall think to have destroyed shall make alive in an emblem when Israel was falling. For the Lord caused all manner of serpents to bite them, and they died (forasmuch as the transgression was wrought in Eve through the serpent), that He might convince them that by reason of their transgression they should be delivered over to the affliction of death.


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Found: Barnabas:12:11 @ And again thus sayith Isaiah; The Lord said unto my Christ the Lord, of whose right hand I laid hold, that the nations should give ear before Him, and I will break down the strength of kings. See how David calleth Him Lord, and calleth Him not Son.


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Found: Barnabas:13:3 @ Ye ought to understand who Isaac is, and who Rebecca is, and in whose case He hath shown that the one people is greater than the other.


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Found: Barnabas:13:6 @ Mark in whose cases He ordained that this people should be first and heir of the covenant.


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Found: Barnabas:14:3 @ And the Lord said unto Moses; Moses, Moses, come down quickly; for thy people, whom thou leddest forth from the land of Egypt, hath done wickedly. And Moses perceived that they had made for themselves again molten images, and he cast them out of his hands and the tables of the covenant of the Lord were broken in pieces.


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Found: Barnabas:14:5 @ But He was made manifest, in order that at the same time they might be perfected in their sins, and we might receive the covenant through Him who inherited it, even the Lord Jesus, who was prepared beforehand hereunto, that appearing in person He might redeem out of darkness our hearts which had already been paid over unto death and delivered up to the iniquity of error, and thus establish the covenant in us through the word.


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Found: Barnabas:16:9 @ How? Understand ye. By receiving the remission of our sins and hoping on the Name we became new, created afresh from the beginning. Wherefore God dwelleth truly in our habitation within us. How? The word of his faith, the calling of his promise, the wisdom of the ordinances, the commandments of the teaching, He Himself prophesying in us, He Himself dwelling in us, opening for us who had been in bondage unto death the door of the temple, which is the mouth, and giving us repentance leadeth us to the incorruptible temple.


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Found: Barnabas:19:2 @ Thou shalt love Him that made thee, thou shalt fear Him that created thee, thou shalt glorify Him that redeemed thee from death; thou shalt be simple in heart and rich in spirit; thou shalt not cleave to those who walk the way of death; thou shalt hate everything that is not pleasing to God; thou shalt hate all hypocrisy; thou shalt never forsake the commandments of the Lord.


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Found: Barnabas:19:7 @ Thou shalt be subject unto thy masters as to a type of God in shame and fear. Thou shalt not command in bitterness thy bondservant or thine handmaid who set their hope on the same God, lest haply, they should cease to fear the God who is over both of you; for He came not to call with respect of persons, but to call those whom the Spirit hath prepared.


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Found: Barnabas:19:11 @ Thou shall not hesitate to give, neither shalt thou murmur when giving, but thou shalt know who is the good paymaster of thy reward. Thou shalt keep those things which thou hast received, neither adding to them nor taking away from them. Thou shalt utterly hate the Evil One. Thou shalt judge righteously.


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Found: Barnabas:20:2 @ persecutors of good men, hating the truth, loving lies, not perceiving the reward of righteousness, not cleaving to the good nor to the righteous judgment, paying no heed to the widow and the orphan, wakeful not for the fear of God but for that which is evil; men from whom gentleness and forbearance stand aloof and far off; loving vain things, pursuing a recompense, not pitying the poor man, not toiling for him that is oppressed with toil, ready to slander, not recognizing Him that made them murderers of children, corrupters of the creatures of God, turning away from him that is in want, oppressing him that is afflicted, advocates of the wealthy, unjust judges of the poor, sinful in all things.


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Found: Barnabas:21:2 @ I entreat those of you who are in a higher station, if ye will receive any counsel of good advice from me, keep amongst you those to whom ye may do good. Fail not.


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Found: Barnabas:21:5 @ And may God, who is Lord of the whole world, give you wisdom, judgment, learning, knowledge of His ordinances, patience.


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Found: Didache:1:6 @ Yea, as touching this also it is said; Let thine alms sweat into thine hands, until thou have learnt to whom to give.


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Found: Didache:4:7 @ Thou shalt not hesitate to give, neither shalt thou murmur when giving; for thou shalt know who is the good paymaster of thy reward.


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Found: Didache:4:10 @ Thou shalt not command thy bondservant or thine handmaid in thy bitterness who trust in the same God as thyself, lest haply they should cease to fear the God who is over both of you; for He cometh, not to call men with respect of persons, but He cometh to those whom the Spirit hath prepared.


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Found: Didache:5:2 @ persecutors of good men, hating truth, loving a lie, not perceiving the reward of righteousness, not cleaving to the good nor to righteous judgment, wakeful not for that which is good but for that which is evil-from whom gentleness and forbearance stand aloof; loving vain things, pursuing a recompense, not pitying the poor man, not toiling for him that is oppressed with toil, not recognizing Him that made them, murderers of children, corrupters of the creatures of God, turning away from him that is in want, oppressing him that is afflicted, advocates of the wealthy, unjust judges of the poor, altogether sinful. May ye be delivered, my children, from all these things.


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Found: Didache:6:2 @ For if thou art able to bear the whole yoke of the Lord, thou shalt be perfect; but if thou art not able, do that which thou art able.


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Found: Didache:7:4 @ But before the baptism let him that baptizeth and him that is baptized fast, and any others also who are able; and thou shalt order him that is baptized to fast a day or two before.


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Found: Didache:11:12 @ And whosoever shall say in the Spirit, Give me silver or anything else, ye shall not listen to him; but if he tell you to give on behalf of others that are in want, let no man judge him.


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Found: Didache:15:1 @ Appoint for yourselves therefore bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men who are meek and not lovers of money, and true and approved; for unto you they also perform the service of the prophets and teachers.


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Found: Didache:16:2 @ And ye shall gather yourselves together frequently, seeking what is fitting for your souls; for the whole time of your faith shall not profit you, if ye be not perfected at the last season.


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Found: Diognetus:1:1 @ Since I see, most excellent Diognetus, that thou art exceedingly anxious to understand the religion of the Christians, and that thy enquiries respecting them are distinctly and carefully made, as to what God they trust and how they worship Him, that they all disregard the world and despise death, and take no account of those who are regarded as gods by the Greeks, neither observe the superstition of the Jews, and as to the nature of the affection which they entertain one to another, and of this new development or interest, which has entered into men's lives now and not before: I gladly welcome this zeal in thee, and I ask of God, Who supplieth both the speaking and the hearing to us, that it may be granted to myself to speak in such a way that thou mayest be made better by the hearing, and to thee that thou mayest so listen that I the speaker may not be disappointed.


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Found: Diognetus:2:1 @ Come then, clear thyself of all the prepossessions which occupy thy mind, and throw off the habit which leadeth thee astray, and become a new man, as it were, from the beginning, as one who would listen to a new story, even as thou thyself didst confess. See not only with thine eyes, but with thine intellect also, of what substance or of what form they chance to be whom ye call and regard as gods.


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Found: Diognetus:2:7 @ For do not ye yourselves, who now regard and worship them, much more despise them? Do ye not much rather mock and insult them, worshipping those that are of stone and earthenware unguarded, but shutting up those that are of silver and gold by night, and setting guards over them by day, to prevent their being stolen?


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Found: Diognetus:3:5 @ But those who think to perform sacrifices to Him with blood and fat and whole burnt offerings, and to honor Him with such honors, seem to me in no way different from those who show the same respect towards deaf images; for the one class think fit to make offerings to things unable to participate in the honor, the other class to One Who is in need of nothing.


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Found: Diognetus:4:5 @ And to watch the stars and the moon and to keep the observance of months and of days, and to distinguish the arrangements of God and the changes of the seasons according to their own impulses, making some into festivals and others into times of mourning, who would regard this as an exhibition of godliness and not much more of folly?


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Found: Diognetus:7:2 @ But truly the Almighty Creator of the Universe, the Invisible God Himself from heaven planted among men the truth and the holy teaching which surpasseth the wit of man, and fixed it firmly in their hearts, not as any man might imagine, by sending (to mankind) a subaltern, or angel, or ruler, or one of those that direct the affairs of earth, or one of those who have been entrusted with the dispensations in heaven, but the very Artificer and Creator of the Universe Himself, by Whom He made the heavens, by Whom He enclosed the sea in its proper bounds, Whose mysteries all the elements faithfully observe, from Whom the sun hath received even the measure of the courses of the day to keep them, Whom the moon obeys as He bids her shine by night, Whom the stars obey as they follow the course of the moon, by Whom all things are ordered and bounded and placed in subjection, the heavens and the things that are in the heavens, the earth and the things that are in the earth, the sea and the things that are in the sea, fire, air, abyss, the things that are in the heights, the things that are in the depths, the things that are between the two. Him He sent unto them.


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Found: Diognetus:7:4 @ Not so. But in gentleness and meekness has He sent Him, as a king might send his son who is a king. He sent Him, as sending God; He sent Him, as a man unto men; He sent Him, as Savior, as using persuasion, not force: for force is no attribute of God.


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Found: Diognetus:7:6 @ For He will send Him in judgment, and who shall endure His presence?


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Found: Diognetus:8:2 @ Or dost thou accept the empty and nonsensical statements of those pretentious philosophers: of whom some said that God was fire (they call that God, where-unto they themselves shall go), and others water, and others some other of the elements which were created by God?


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Found: Diognetus:9:4 @ In whom was it possible for us lawless and ungodly men to have been justified, save only in the Son of God?


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Found: Diognetus:10:2 @ For God loved for whose sake He made the world, to whom He subjected all things that are in the earth, to whom He gave reason and mind, whom alone He permitted to look up to heaven, whom He created after His own image, to whom He sent His only begotten Son, to whom He promised the kingdom which is in heaven, and will give it to those that have loved Him.


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Found: Diognetus:10:6 @ But whosoever taketh upon himself the burden of his neighbor, whosoever desireth to benefit one that is worse off in that in which he himself is superior, whosoever by supplying to those that are in want possessions which he received from God becomes a God to those who receive them from him, he is an imitator of God.


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Found: Diognetus:10:8 @ Then shalt thou admire those who endure for righteousness' sake the fire that is for a season, and shalt count them blessed when thou perceivest that fire... * * *


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Found: Diognetus:11:2 @ For who that has been rightly taught and has entered into friendship with the Word does not seek to learn distinctly the lessons revealed openly by the Word to the disciples; to whom the Word appeared and declared them, speaking plainly, not perceived by the unbelieving, but relating them to disciples who being reckoned faithful by Him were taught the mysteries of the Father?


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Found: Diognetus:11:5 @ He, I say, Who is eternal, Who today was accounted a Son, through Whom the Church is enriched and grace is unfolded and multiplied among the saints, grace which confers understanding, which reveals mysteries, which announces seasons, which rejoices over the faithful, which is bestowed upon those who seek her, even those by whom the pledges of faith are not broken, nor the boundaries of the fathers overstepped.


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Found: Diognetus:11:7 @ If thou grieve not this grace, thou shalt understand the discourses which the Word holds by the mouth of those whom He desires when He wishes.


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Found: Diognetus:12:1 @ Confronted with these truths and listening to them with attention, ye shall know how much God bestoweth on those that love (Him) rightly, who become a Paradise of delight, a tree bearing all manner of fruits and flourishing, growing up in themselves and adorned with various fruits.


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Found: Diognetus:12:6 @ For the man who supposes that he knows anything without the true knowledge which is testified by the life, is ignorant, he is deceived by the serpent, because he loved not life--whereas he who with fear recognizes and desires life plants in hope expecting fruit.


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Found: Hermas:1:1 @ The master, who reared me, had sold me to one Rhoda in Rome. After many years, I met her again, and began to love her as a sister.


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Found: Hermas:1:4 @ Now, while I prayed, the heaven was opened, and I see the lady, whom I had desired, greeting me from heaven, saying, "Good morrow, Hermas."


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Found: Hermas:1:9 @ Their souls shall rue it, seeing that they have no hope, but have abandoned themselves and their life. But do thou pray unto God and He shall heal thine own sins, and those of thy whole house, and of all the saints."


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Found: Hermas:2:4 @ Then she said, "Far be this thing from the servant of God! Nevertheless the thought did enter into thy heart concerning her. Now to the servants of God such a purpose bringeth sin. For it is an evil and mad purpose to overtake a devout spirit that hath been already approved, that it should desire an evil deed, and especially if it be Hermas the temperate, who abstaineth from every evil desire, and is full of all simplicity and of great guilelessness.


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Found: Hermas:15:3 @ But after I had risen up from prayer, I behold before me the aged lady, whom also I had seen last year, walking and reading a little book. And she saith to me, "Canst thou report these things to the elect of God?" I say unto her, "Lady, I cannot recollect so much; but give me the little book, that I may copy it." "Take it," saith she, "and be sure and return it to me."


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Found: Hermas:15:4 @ I took it, and retiring to a certain spot in the country I copied it letter for letter: for I could not make out the syllables. When then I had finished the letters of the book, suddenly the book was snatched out of my hand; but by whom I did not see.


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Found: Hermas:26:3 @ But make these words known to all thy children, and to thy wife who shall be as thy sister; for she too refraineth not from using her tongue, wherewith she doeth evil. But, when she hears these words, she will refrain, and will find mercy.


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Found: Hermas:26:4 @ After that thou hast made known unto them all these words, which the Master commanded me that they should be revealed unto thee, then all their sins which they sinned aforetime are forgiven to them; yea, and to all the saints that have sinned unto this day, if they repent with their whole heart, and remove double-mindedness from their heart.


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Found: Hermas:26:8 @ For the Lord swear concerning His Son, that those who denied their Lord should be rejected from their life, even they that are now about to deny Him in the coming days; but to those who denied Him aforetime, to them mercy was given of His great loving kindness.


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Found: Hermas:37:2 @ But herein is thy salvation, in that thou didst not depart from the living God, and in thy simplicity and thy great continence. These have saved thee, if thou abidest therein; and they save all who do such things, and walk in guilelessness and simplicity. These men prevail over all wickedness, and continue unto life eternal.


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Found: Hermas:37:4 @ But thou shalt say to Maximus, "Behold tribulation cometh (upon thee), if thou think fit to deny a second time. The Lord is nigh unto them that turn unto him, as it is written in Eldad and Modat, who prophesied to the people in the wilderness."


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Found: Hermas:48:1 @ Now, brethren, a revelation was made unto me in my sleep by a youth of exceeding fair form, who said to me, "Whom thinkest thou the aged woman, from whom thou receivedst the book, to be?" I say, "The Sibyl" "Thou art wrong," saith he, "she is not." "Who then is she?" I say. "The Church," saith he. I said unto him, "Wherefore then is she aged?" "Because," saith he, "she was created before all things; therefore is she aged; and for her sake the world was framed."


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Found: Hermas:19y:6 @ Then she came with six young men, the same whom I had seen before, and she stood by me, and listened attentively to me, as I prayed and confessed my sins to the Lord. And she touched me, and said: "Hermas, make an end of constantly entreating for thy sins; entreat also for righteousness, that thou mayest take some part forthwith to thy family."


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Found: Hermas:19y:9 @ When then I wanted to sit down on the right side, she would not allow me, but beckoned me with her hand that I should sit on the left side. As then I was musing thereon, and was sad because she would not permit me to sit on the right side, she saith to me, "Art thou sad, Hermas? The place on the right side is for others, even for those who have already been well-pleasing to God, and have suffered for the Name's sake. But thou lackest much that thou shouldest sit with them; but as thou abidest in thy simplicity, even so, and thou shalt sit with them, thou and as many as shall have done their deeds, and have suffered what they suffered."


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Found: Hermas:210:1 @ "What did they suffer?" say I. "Listen," saith she. "Stripes, imprisonments, great tribulations, crosses, wild beasts, for the Name's sake. Therefore to them belongs the right side of the Holiness--to them, and to all who shall suffer for the Name. But for the rest is the left side. Howbeit, to both, to them that sit on the right, and to them that sit on the left, are the same gifts, and the same promises, only they sit on the right and have a certain glory.


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Found: Hermas:412:1 @ I answered and said unto her, "Lady, this thing is great and marvelous. But the six young men that build, who are they, lady?" "These are the holy angels of God, that were created first of all, unto whom the Lord delivered all His creation to increase and to build it, and to be masters of all creation. By their hands therefore the building of the tower will be accomplished."


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Found: Hermas:412:2 @ "And who are the others who are bringing the stones in?" "They also are holy angels of God; but these six are superior to them. The building of the tower then shall be accomplished, and all alike shall rejoice in the (completed) circle of the tower, and shall glorify God that the building of the tower was accomplished."


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Found: Hermas:412:3 @ I enquired of her, saying, "Lady, I could wish to know concerning the end of the stones, and their power, of what kind it is." She answered and said unto me, "It is not that thou of all men art especially worthy that it should be revealed to thee; for there are others before thee, and better than thou art, unto whom these visions ought to have been revealed. But that the name of God may be glorified, it hath been revealed to thee, all shall be revealed, for the sake of the doubtful-minded, who question in their hearts whether these things are so or not. Tell them that all these things are true, and that there is nothing beside the truth, but that all are steadfast, and valid, and established on a firm foundation.


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Found: Hermas:513:1 @ "Hear now concerning the stones that go to the building The stones that are squared and white, and that fit together in their joints, these are the apostles and bishops and teachers and deacons, who walked after the holiness of God, and exercised their office of bishop and teacher and deacon in purity and sanctity for the elect of God, some of them already fallen on sleep, and others still living. And because they always agreed with one another, they both had peace among themselves and listened one to another. Therefore their joinings fit together in the building of the tower."


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Found: Hermas:513:2 @ "But they that are dragged from the deep, and placed in the building, and that fit together in their joinings with the other stones that are already builded in, who are they?" "These are they that suffered for the name of the Lord."


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Found: Hermas:513:3 @ "But the other stones that are brought from the dry land, I would fain know who these are, lady." She said, "Those that go to the building, and yet are not hewn, these the Lord hath approved because they walked in the uprightness of the Lord, and rightly performed His commandments."


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Found: Hermas:513:4 @ "But they that are brought and placed in the building, who are they?" "They are young in the faith, and faithful; but they are warned by the angels to do good, because wickedness was found in them."


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Found: Hermas:513:5 @ "But those whom they rejected and threw away, who are they?" "These have sinned, and desire to repent, therefore they were not cast to a great distance from the tower, because they will be useful for the building, if they repent. They then that shall repent, if they repent, will be strong in the faith, if they repent now while the tower is building. But if the building shall be finished, they have no more any place, but shall be castaways. This privilege only they have, that they lie near the tower.


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Found: Hermas:5[13^:2 @ But the rest whom thou hast seen lying in great numbers, not going to the building, of these they that are mildewed are they that knew the truth, but did not abide in it, nor cleave to the saints. Therefore they are useless."


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Found: Hermas:5[13^:3 @ "But they that have the cracks, who are they?" "These are they that have discord in their hearts against one another, and are not at peace among themselves; who have an appearance of peace, but when they depart from one another, their wickednesses abide in their hearts. These are the cracks which the stones have.


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Found: Hermas:5[13^:5 @ "But the white and round stones, which did not fit into the building, who are they, lady?" She answered and said to me, "How long art thou foolish and stupid, and enquirest everything, and understandest nothing? These are they that have faith, but have also riches of this world. When tribulation cometh, they deny their Lord by reason of their riches and their business affairs."


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Found: Hermas:715:3 @ But the others, which are near the waters and yet cannot roll into the water, wouldest thou know who are they? These are they that heard the word, and would be baptized unto the name of the Lord. Then, when they call to their remembrance the purity of the truth, they change their minds, and go back again after their evil desires."


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Found: Hermas:816:5 @ "And the others, lady, who be they?" "They are daughters one of the other. The name of the one is Simplicity, of the next, Knowledge, of the next, Guilelessness, of the next, Reverence, of the next, Love. When then thou shalt do all the works of their mother, thou canst live."


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Found: Hermas:917:3 @ For some men through their much eating bring weakness on the flesh, and injure their flesh: whereas the flesh of those who have nought to eat is injured by their not having sufficient nourishment, and their body is ruined.


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Found: Hermas:1018:1 @ When then she ceased speaking with me, the six young men, who were building, came, and took her away to the tower, and other four lifted the couch, and took it also away to the tower. I saw not the face of these, for they were turned away.


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Found: Hermas:1220:2 @ "Imagine an old man, who has now lost all hope of himself by reason of his weakness and his poverty, and expecteth nothing else save the last day of his life. Suddenly an inheritance is left him. He heareth the news, riseth up and full of joy clothes himself with strength, and no longer lieth down, but standeth up, and his spirit, which was now broken by reason of his former circumstances, is renewed again, and he no longer sitteth, but taketh courage; so also was it with you, when you heard the revelation which the Lord revealed unto you.


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Found: Hermas:1220:3 @ For He had compassion on you, and renewed your spirits, and ye laid aside your maladies, and strength came to you, and ye were made powerful in the faith, and the Lord rejoiced to see you put on your strength. And therefore He showed you the building of the tower; yea, and other things also shall He show you, if with your whole heart ye be at peace among yourselves.


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Found: Hermas:1321:4 @ They then that have fully repented shall be young again, and founded firmly, seeing that they have repented with their whole heart. There thou hast the revelation entire and complete. Thou shalt ask nothing more as touching revelation-- but if anything be lacking still, it shall be revealed unto thee."


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Found: Hermas:223:3 @ She answered and said unto me, "Did nothing meet thee? "I say unto her, Lady, such a huge beast, that could have destroyed whole peoples: but, by the power of the Lord and by His great mercy, I escaped it."


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Found: Hermas:223:4 @ "Thou didst escape it well," saith she, "because thou didst cast thy care upon God, and didst open thy heart to the Lord, believing that thou canst be saved by nothing else but by His great and glorious Name. Therefore the Lord sent His angel, which is over the beasts, whose name is Segri, and shut his mouth that it might not hurt thee. Thou hast escaped a great tribulation by reason of thy faith, and because, though thou sawest so huge a beast, thou didst not doubt in thy mind.


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Found: Hermas:223:5 @ Go therefore, and declare to the elect of the Lord His mighty works, and tell them that this beast is a type of the great tribulation which is to come. If therefore ye prepare yourselves beforehand, and repent (and turn) unto the Lord with your whole heart, ye shall be able to escape it, if your heart be made pure and without blemish, and if for the remaining days of your life ye serve the Lord blamelessly. Cast your cares upon the Lord and He will set them straight.


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Found: Hermas:525:3 @ I thought he came to tempt me, and I say unto him, "Why, who art thou? For I know," say I, "unto whom I was delivered." He saith to me, "Dost thou not recognize me?" "No," I say. "I," saith he, "am the shepherd, unto whom thou wast delivered."


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Found: Hermas:525:4 @ While he was still speaking, his form was changed, and I recognized him as being the same, to whom I was delivered; and straightway I was confounded, and fear seized me, and I was altogether overwhelmed with distress that I had answered him so wickedly and senselessly.


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Found: Hermas:126:1 @ "First of all, believe that God is One, even He who created all things and set them in order, and brought all things from non-existence into being, Who comprehendeth all things, being alone incomprehensible.


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Found: Hermas:127:4 @ But clothe thyself in reverence, wherein is no evil stumbling-block, but all things are smooth and gladsome. Work that which is good, and of thy labors, which God giveth thee, give to all that are in want freely, not questioning to whom thou shalt give, and to whom thou shalt not give. Give to all; for to all God desireth that there should be given of His own bounties.


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Found: Hermas:127:6 @ He then that giveth is guiltless; for as he received from the Lord the ministration to perform it, he hath performed it in sincerity, by making no distinction to whom to give or not to give. This ministration then, when sincerely performed, becomes glorious in the sight of God. He therefore that ministereth thus sincerely shall live unto God.


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Found: Hermas:128:5 @ "Now then," saith he, "thou hearest. Guard them, that the former falsehoods also which thou spakest in thy business affairs may themselves become credible, now that these are found true; for they too can become trustworthy. If thou keep these things, and from henceforward speak nothing but truth, thou shalt be able to secure life for thyself And whosoever shall hear this command, and abstain from falsehood, that most pernicious habit, shall live unto God."


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Found: Hermas:129:4 @ I say to him, "Sir, permit me to ask thee a few more questions" "Say on," saith he. "Sir," say I, "if a man who has a wife that is faithful in the Lord detect her in adultery, doth the husband sin in living with her?"


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Found: Hermas:129:8 @ "Certainly," saith he, "if the husband receiveth her not, he sinneth and bringeth great sin upon himself; nay, one who hath sinned and repented must be received, yet not often; for there is but one repentance for the servants of God. For the sake of her repentance therefore the husband ought not to marry. This is the manner of acting enjoined on husband and wife.


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Found: Hermas:129:9 @ Not only," saith he, "is it adultery, if a man pollute his flesh, but whosoever doeth things like unto the heathen committeth adultery. If therefore in such deeds as these likewise a man continue and repent not, keep away from him, and live not with him. Otherwise, thou also art a partaker of his sin.


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Found: Hermas:230:2 @ He answered and said unto me, "I," saith he, "preside over repentance, and I give understanding to all who repent. Nay, thinkest thou not," saith he, "that this very act of repentance is understanding? To repent is great understanding," saith he. "For the man that hath sinned understandeth that he hath done evil before the Lord, and the deed which he hath done entereth into his heart, and he repenteth, and doeth no more evil, but doeth good lavishly, and humbleth his own soul and putteth it to torture because it sinned. Thou seest then that repentance is great understanding."


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Found: Hermas:230:4 @ "Thou shalt live," saith he, "if thou keep my commandments and walk in them and whosoever shall hear these commandments and keep them, shall live unto God."


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Found: Hermas:331:3 @ But, since thou enquirest all things accurately, I will declare unto thee this also, so as to give no excuse to those who shall hereafter believe or those who have already believed, on the Lord. For they that have already believed, or shall hereafter believe, have not repentance for sins, but have only remission of their former sins.


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Found: Hermas:133:4 @ Thus that both the spirits then should be dwelling together is inconvenient and evil for that man in whom they dwell.


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Found: Hermas:133:5 @ For if you take a little wormwood, and pour it into a jar of honey, is not the whole of the honey spoiled, and all that honey ruined by a very small quantity of wormwood? For it destroyeth the sweetness of the honey, and it no longer hath the same attraction for the owner, because it is rendered bitter and hath lost its use. But if the wormwood be not put into the honey, the honey is found sweet and becomes useful to its owner.


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Found: Hermas:133:7 @ "I would fain know, Sir," say I, "the working of angry temper, that I may guard myself from it." "Yea, verily," saith he, "if thou guard not thyself from it--thou and thy family--thou hast lost all thy hope. But guard thyself from it; for I am with thee. Yea, and all men shall hold aloof from it, as many as have repented with their whole heart. For I will be with them and will preserve them; for they all were justified by the most holy angel.


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Found: Hermas:234:3 @ But long-suffering is great and strong, and has a mighty and vigorous power, and is prosperous in great enlargement, gladsome, exultant, free from care, glorifying the Lord at every season, having no bitterness in itself, remaining always gentle and tranquil. This long-suffering therefore dwelleth with those whose faith is perfect.


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Found: Hermas:234:7 @ Then, when it hath removed from that man, in whom it dwells, that man becometh emptied of the righteous spirit, and henceforward, being filled with the evil spirits, he is unstable in all his actions, being dragged about hither and thither by the evil spirits, and is altogether blinded and bereft of his good intent. Thus then it happeneth to all persons of angry temper.


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Found: Hermas:135:3 @ For the crooked way has no tracks, but only pathlessness and many stumbling stones, and is rough and thorny. So it is therefore harmful to those who walk in it.


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Found: Hermas:135:4 @ But those who walk in the straight way walk on the level and without stumbling: for it is neither rough nor thorny. Thou seest then that it is more expedient to walk in this way."


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Found: Hermas:135:5 @ "I am pleased, Sir," say I, "to walk in this way." "Thou shalt walk," he saith, "yea, and whosoever shall turn unto the Lord with his whole heart shall walk in it.


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Found: Hermas:137:2 @ But fear not the devil; for, if thou fear the Lord, thou shalt be master over the devil, for there is no power in him. For in whom is no power, neither is there fear of him; but in whom power is glorious, of him is fear likewise. For every one that hath power hath fear, whereas he that hath no power is despised of all.


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Found: Hermas:138:6 @ Thinkest thou not that these things are wrong, yea, very wrong," saith he, "for the servants of God? In all these things he that serveth God must exercise temperance. Be thou temperate, therefore, and refrain from all these things, that thou mayest live unto God, and be enrolled among those who exercise self-restraint in them. These then are the things from which thou shouldest restrain thyself


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Found: Hermas:138:10 @ Hear now what follow upon these; to minister to widows, to visit the orphans and the needy, to ransom the servants of God from their afflictions, to be hospitable (for in hospitality benevolence from time to time has a place), to resist no man, to be tranquil, to show yourself more submissive than all men, to reverence the aged, to practice righteousness, to observe brotherly feeling, to endure injury, to be long-suffering, to bear no grudge, to exhort those who are sick at soul, not to cast away those that have stumbled from the faith, but to convert them and to put courage Into them, to reprove sinners, not to oppress debtors and indigent persons, and whatsoever actions are like these.


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Found: Hermas:138:12 @ Keep this commandment therefore. If thou do good and abstain not from it, thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all shall live unto God who act so. And again if thou do not evil, and abstain from it, thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all shall live unto God, who shall keep these commandments, and walk in them."


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Found: Hermas:139:2 @ Reason not thus, but turn to the Lord with thy whole heart, and ask of Him nothing wavering, and thou shalt know His exceeding compassion, that He will surely not abandon thee, but will fulfill the petition of thy soul.


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Found: Hermas:139:3 @ For God is not as men who bear a grudge, but Himself is without malice and hath compassion on His creatures.


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Found: Hermas:139:11 @ Do thou therefore serve that faith which hath power, and hold aloof from the doubtful-mindedness which hath no power; and thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all those shall live unto God who are so minded."


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Found: Hermas:140:4 @ "Listen," saith he. "Those who have never investigated concerning the truth, nor enquired concerning the deity, but have merely believed, and have been mixed up in business affairs and riches and heathen friendships, and many other affairs of this world--as many, I say, as devote themselves to these things, comprehend not the parables of the deity; for they are darkened by these actions, and are corrupted and become barren.


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Found: Hermas:140:5 @ As good vineyards, when they are treated with neglect, are made barren by the thorns and weeds of various kinds, so men who after they have believed fall into these many occupations which were mentioned before, lose their understanding and comprehend nothing at all concerning righteousness; for if they hear concerning the deity and truth, their mind is absorbed in their occupations, and they perceive nothing at all.


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Found: Hermas:342:4 @ Therefore cleanse thyself from this wicked sadness, and thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all they shall live unto God, who shall cast away sadness from themselves and clothe themselves in all cheerfulness."


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Found: Hermas:143:1 @ He shewed me men seated on a couch, and another man seated on a chair. And he saith to me, "Seest thou those that are seated on the couch?" "I see them, Sir," say I. "These," saith he, "are faithful, but he that sitteth on the chair is a false prophet who destroyeth the mind of the servants of God--I mean, of the doubtful-minded, not of the faithful.


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Found: Hermas:143:7 @ "How then, Sir," say I, "shall a man know who of them is a prophet, and who a false prophet?" "Hear," saith he, "concerning both the prophets; and, as I shall tell thee, so shalt thou test the prophet and the false prophet. By his life test the man that hath the divine Spirit.


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Found: Hermas:143:9 @ When then the man who hath the divine Spirit cometh into an assembly of righteous men, who have faith in a divine Spirit, and intercession is made to God by the gathering of those men, then the angel of the prophetic spirit, who is attached to him, filleth the man, and the man, being filled with the Holy Spirit, speaketh to the multitude, according as the Lord willeth.


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Found: Hermas:143:12 @ In the first place, that man who seemeth to have a spirit exalteth himself, and desireth to have a chief place, and straight-way he is impudent and shameless and talkative and conversant in many luxuries and in many other deceits and receiveth money for his prophesying, and if he receiveth not, he prophesieth not. Now can a divine Spirit receive money and prophesy? It is not possible for a prophet of God to do this, but the spirit of such prophets is earthly.


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Found: Hermas:143:13 @ In the next place, it never approacheth an assembly of righteous men; but avoideth them, and cleaveth to the doubtful-minded and empty, and prophesieth to them in corners, and deceiveth them, speaking all things in emptiness to gratify their desires; for they too are empty whom it answereth. For the empty vessel placed together with the empty is not broken, but they agree one with the other.


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Found: Hermas:143:14 @ But when he comes into an assembly full of righteous men who have a Spirit of deity, and intercession is made from them, that man is emptied, and the earthly spirit fleeth from him in fear, and that man is struck dumb and is altogether broken in pieces, being unable to utter a word.


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Found: Hermas:143:16 @ I have given thee the life of both kinds of prophets. Therefore test, by his life and his works, the man who says that he is moved by the Spirit.


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Found: Hermas:346:1 @ "I would fain know, Sir," say I, "in what ways I ought to serve the good desire." "Listen," saith he; "practice righteousness and virtue, truth and the fear of the Lord, faith and gentleness, and as many good deeds as are like these. Practicing these thou shalt be well-pleasing as a servant of God, and shalt live unto Him; yea, and every one who shall serve the good desire shall live unto God."


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Found: Hermas:346:3 @ This ministration, which I give thee, fulfill thou with all diligence to the end, and thou shalt effect much. For thou shalt find favor among those who are about to repent, and they shall obey thy words. For I will be with thee, and will compel them to obey thee."


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Found: Hermas:346:4 @ I say to him; "Sir, these commandments are great and beautiful and glorious, and are able to gladden the heart of the man who is able to observe them. But I know not whether these commandments can be kept by a man, for they are very hard."


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Found: Hermas:447:5 @ Therefore do ye, who are empty and fickle in the faith, set your Lord in your heart, and ye shall perceive that nothing is easier than these commandments, nor sweeter, nor more gentle.


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Found: Hermas:447:7 @ For I will be with you, I, the angel of repentance, who have the mastery over him. The devil hath fear alone, but his fear hath no force. Fear him not therefore; and he will flee from you."


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Found: Hermas:548:2 @ "He cannot," saith he, "overmaster the servants of God, who set their hope on Him with their whole heart. The devil can wrestle with them, but he cannot overthrow them. If then ye resist him, he will be vanquished and will flee from you disgraced. But as many," saith he, "as are utterly empty, fear the devil as if he had power.


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Found: Hermas:649:1 @ "But I, the angel of repentance, say unto you; Fear not the devil; for I was sent," saith he, "to be with you who repent with your whole heart, and to strengthen you in the faith.


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Found: Hermas:649:2 @ Believe, therefore, on God, ye who by reason of your sins have despaired of your life, and are adding to your sins, and weighing down your life; for if ye turn unto the Lord with your whole heart, and work righteousness the remaining days of your life, and serve Him rightly according to His will, He will give healing to your former sins, and ye shall have power to master the works of the devil. But of the threatening of the devil fear not at all; for he is unstrung, like the sinews of a dead man.


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Found: Hermas:150:1 @ He saith to me; "Ye know that ye, who are the servants of God, are dwelling in a foreign land; for your city is far from this city. If then ye know your city, in which ye shall dwell, why do ye here prepare fields and expensive displays and buildings and dwelling-chambers which are superfluous?


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Found: Hermas:150:4 @ Thou, therefor who hast fields and dwellings and many other possessions, when thou art cast out by him, what wilt thou do with thy field and thy house am all the other things that thou preparedst for thyself? For the lord of this country saith to thee justly, "Either conform to my laws, or depart from my country."


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Found: Hermas:150:5 @ What then shalt thou do, who art under law in thine own city? For the sake of thy fields and the rest of thy possessions wilt thou altogether repudiate thy law, and walk according to the law of this city? Take heed, lest it be inexpedient to repudiate the law; for if thou shouldest desire to return again to thy city, thou shall surely not be received because thou didst repudiate the law of the city, and shalt be shut out from it.


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Found: Hermas:151:10 @ Blessed are the rich, who understand also that they are enriched from the Lord. For they that have this mind shall be able to do some good work."


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Found: Hermas:153:2 @ "These trees," saith he, "that are sprouting are the righteous, who shall dwell in the world to come; for the world to come is summer to the righteous, but winter to the sinners. When then the mercy of the Lord shall shine forth, then they that serve God shall be made manifest; yea, and all men shall be made manifest.


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Found: Hermas:153:8 @ If therefore thou doest these things, thou shalt be able to bear fruit unto the world to come; yea, and whosoever shall do these things, shall bear fruit."


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Found: Hermas:255:2 @ A certain man had an estate, and many slaves, and a portion of his estate he planted as a vineyard; and choosing out a certain slave who was trusty and well-pleasing (and) held in honor, he called him to him and saith unto him; "Take this vineyard which I have planted, and fence it till I come, but do nothing else to the vineyard. Now keep this my commandment, and thou shalt be free in my house." Then the master of the servant went away to travel abroad.


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Found: Hermas:255:6 @ So he called his beloved son, who was his heir, and the friends who were his advisers, and told them what he had commanded his servant, and how much he had found done. And they rejoiced with the servant at the testimony which his master had borne to him.


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Found: Hermas:356:4 @ I say to him, "Sir, whatsoever thou commandest me, I will keep it; for I know that thou art with me." "I will be with thee," saith he, "because thou hast so great zeal for doing good; yea, and I will be with all," saith he, "whosoever have such zeal as this.


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Found: Hermas:356:9 @ These things thou shalt so observe, thou and thy children and thy whole household; and, observing them, thou shalt be blessed; yea, and all those, who shall hear and observe them, shall be blessed, and whatsoever things they shall ask of the Lord, they shall receive."


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Found: Hermas:457:4 @ But the Lord is abundant in compassion, and giveth to them that ask of Him without ceasing. But thou who hast been strengthened by the holy angel, and hast received from him such (powers of intercession and art not idle, wherefore dost thou not ask understanding of the Lord, and obtain it from Him)."


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Found: Hermas:558:2 @ The estate is this world, and the lord of the estate is He that created all things, and set them in order, and endowed them with power; and the servant is the Son of God, and the vines are this people whom He Himself planted;


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Found: Hermas:558:3 @ and the fences are the holy angels of the Lord who keep together His people; and the weeds, which are plucked up from the vineyard, are the transgressions of the servants of God; and the dainties which He sent to him from the feast are the commandments which He gave to His people through His Son; and the friends and advisers are the holy angels which were first created; and the absence of the master is the time which remaineth over until His coming."


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Found: Hermas:659:5 @ The Holy Pre-existent Spirit. Which created the whole creation, God made to dwell in flesh that He desired. This flesh, therefore, in which the Holy Spirit dwelt, was subject unto the Spirit, walking honorably in holiness and purity, without in any way defiling the Spirit.


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Found: Hermas:760:3 @ "But if, Sir," say I, "there has been any ignorance in times past, before these words were heard, how shall a man who has defiled his flesh be saved?" "For the former deeds of ignorance," saith he, "God alone hath power to give healing; for all authority is His.


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Found: Hermas:161:1 @ As I sat in my house, and glorified the Lord for all things that I had seen, and was considering concerning the commandments, how that they were beautiful and powerful and gladsome and glorious and able to save a man's soul, I said within myself; "Blessed shall I be, if I walk in these commandments; yea, and whosoever shall walk in them shall be blessed."


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Found: Hermas:161:3 @ These commandments are suitable for those who meditate repentance; for if they walk not in them, their repentance is in vain.


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Found: Hermas:262:3 @ I say to him, "Sir, I comprehend not what means "unto death," and what "unto corruption". "Listen," saith he; "the sheep which thou sawest gladsome and skipping about, these are they who have been turned asunder from God utterly, and have delivered themselves over to the lusts of this world. In these, therefore, there is not repentance unto life. For the Name of God is being blasphemed through them. The life of such persons is death.


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Found: Hermas:363:2 @ I say to the shepherd who was speaking with me; "Sir, who is this shepherd, who is so hard-hearted and severe, and has no compassion at all for these sheep?" "This," saith he, "is the angel of punishment, and he is one of the just angels, and presides over punishment.


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Found: Hermas:363:3 @ So he receiveth those who wander away from God, and walk after the lusts and deceits of this life, and punisheth them, as they deserve, with fearful and various punishments."


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Found: Hermas:3[63^:2 @ "Then, Sir," say I, "they undergo very slight torments; for those who are living thus in self-indulgence and forget God ought to have been tormented seven-fold."


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Found: Hermas:3[63^:4 @ The time of the self-indulgence and deceit is one hour. But an hour of the torment hath the power of thirty days. If then one live in self indulgence and be deceived for one day, and be tormented for one day, the day of the torment is equivalent to a whole year. For as many days then as a man lives in self-indulgence, for so many years is he tormented. Thou seest then," saith he, "that the time of the self-indulgence and deceit is very short, but the time of the punishment and torment is long."


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Found: Hermas:565:3 @ He that liveth in self-indulgence and is deceived for one day, and doeth what he wisheth, is clothed in much folly and comprehendeth not the thing which he doeth; for on the morrow he forgetteth what he did the day before. For self-indulgence and deceit have no memories, by reason of the folly, wherewith each is clothed; but when punishment and torment cling to a man for a single day, he is punished and tormented for a whole year long; for punishment and torment have long memories.


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Found: Hermas:565:4 @ So being tormented and punished for the whole year, the man remembers at length the self-indulgence and deceit, and perceiveth that it is on their account that he is suffering these ills. Every man, therefore, that liveth in self-indulgence and is deceived, is tormented in this way because, though possessing lire, they have delivered themselves over unto death."


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Found: Hermas:565:6 @ All these habits of self-indulgence are harmful to the servants of God; on account of these deceits therefore they so suffer who are punished and tormented.


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Found: Hermas:166:3 @ I say to him; "Sir, if they perpetrated such deeds that the glorious angel is embittered, what have I done?" "They cannot be afflicted otherwise," saith he, "unless thou, the head of the whole house, be afflicted; for if thou be afflicted, they also of necessity will be afflicted; but if thou be prosperous, they can suffer no affliction."


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Found: Hermas:166:4 @ "But behold, Sir," say I, "they have repented with their whole heart." "I am quite aware myself," saith he, "that they have repented with their whole heart; well, thinkest thou that the sins of those who repent are forgiven forthwith? Certainly not; but the person who repents must torture his own soul, and must be thoroughly humble in his every action, and be afflicted with all the divers kinds of affliction; and if he endure the afflictions which come upon him, assuredly He Who created all things and endowed them with power will be moved with compassion and will bestow some remedy.


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Found: Hermas:166:7 @ And if thou keep these commandments with thy household, all affliction shall hold aloof from thee; yea, and affliction," saith he, "shall hold aloof from all whosoever shall walk in these my commandments."


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Found: Hermas:167:1 @ He showed me a great willow, overshadowing plains and mountains, and under the shadow of the willow all have come who are called by the name of the Lord.


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Found: Hermas:167:5 @ The angel who gave the rods to the people demanded them back from them again, and according as they had received them, so also they were summoned to him, and each of them returned the several rods. But the angel of the Lord took them, and examined them.


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Found: Hermas:167:6 @ From some he received the rods withered and eaten as it were by grubs: the angel ordered those who gave up rods like these to stand apart.


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Found: Hermas:167:16 @ And others gave up their rods green and with shoots; and their shoots had, as it were, a kind of fruit. And those men were exceeding gladsome, whose rods were found in this state. And over them the angel exulted, and the shepherd was very gladsome over them.


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Found: Hermas:268:2 @ And the others also he sent into the tower, even those who had given up the rods green and with shoots, but the shoots were without fruit; and he set a seal upon them.


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Found: Hermas:268:9 @ And after he had watered the rods, he saith to me; "Let us go now. and after days let us return and inspect all the rods; for He Who created this tree willeth that all those who have received rods from this tree should live. And I myself hope that these little rods, after they have got moisture and been watered, will live the greater part of them."


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Found: Hermas:369:2 @ "Listen," saith he; "this great tree which overshadows plains and mountains and all the earth is the law of God which was given to the whole world; and this law is the Son of Cod preached unto the ends of the earth. But the people that are under the shadow are they that have heard the preaching, and believed on Him;


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Found: Hermas:369:3 @ but the great and glorious angel is Michael, who hath the power over this people and is their captain. For this is he that putteth the law into the hearts of the believers; therefore he himself inspecteth them to whom he gave it, to see whether they have observed it.


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Found: Hermas:369:7 @ But the others, who likewise gave up their rods green and with shoots, though not with fruit, are they that were persecuted for the law, but did not suffer nor yet deny their law.


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Found: Hermas:369:8 @ But they that gave them up green just as they received them, are sober and righteous men, who walked altogether in a pure heart and have kept the commandments of the Lord. But all else thou shalt know, when I have examined these rods that have been planted and watered."


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Found: Hermas:470:2 @ And when he saw me girded and ready to minister to him "Call," saith he, "the men whose rods have been planted, according to the rank as each presented their rods." And I went away to the plain, and called them all; and they stood all of them according to their ranks.


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Found: Hermas:470:3 @ He saith to them; "Let each man pluck out his own rod, and bring it to me." Those gave them up first, who had the withered and chipped rods, and they were found accordingly withered and chipped. He ordered them to stand apart.


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Found: Hermas:470:4 @ Then those gave them up, who had the withered but not chipped; and some of them gave up the rods green, and others withered and chipped as by grubs. Those then that gave them up green he ordered to stand apart; but those that gave them up withered and chipped he ordered to stand with the first.


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Found: Hermas:470:5 @ Then those gave them up who had the half-withered and with cracks; and many of them gave them up green and without cracks; and some gave them up green and with shoots, and fruits on the shoots, such as those had who went into the tower crowned; and some gave them up withered and eaten, and some withered and uneaten, and some such as they were, half-withered and with cracks. He ordered them to stand each one apart, some in their proper ranks, and others apart.


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Found: Hermas:571:1 @ Then those gave them up who had their rods green, but with cracks. These all gave them up green, and stood in their own company. And the shepherd rejoiced over these, because they all were changed and had put away their cracks.


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Found: Hermas:571:2 @ And those gave them up likewise who had the one half green and the other half withered. The rods of some were found entirely green, of some half-withered, of some withered and eaten, and of some green and with shoots. These were all sent away each to his company.


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Found: Hermas:571:3 @ Then those gave them up who had two parts green and the third withered; many of them gave them up green, and many half-withered, and others withered and eaten. These all stood in their own company.


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Found: Hermas:571:4 @ Then those gave them up who had two parts withered and the third part green. Many of them gave them up half-withered, but some withered and eaten, others half-withered and with cracks, and a few green. These all stood in their own company.


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Found: Hermas:571:5 @ Then those gave them up who had their rods green, but a very small part withered and with cracks. Of these some gave them up green, and others green and with shoots. These also went away to their own company.


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Found: Hermas:571:6 @ Then those gave them up who had a very small part green and the other parts withered. The rods of these were found for the most part green and with shoots and fruit on the shoots, and others altogether green. At these rods the shepherd rejoiced very greatly, because they were found so. And these went away each to his own company.


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Found: Hermas:672:2 @ "Wherefore then, Sir," say I, "did they not all repent?" "To those, whose heart He saw about to become pure and to serve Him with all the heart, to them He gave repentance; but those whose craftiness and wickedness He saw, who intend to repent in hypocrisy, to them He gave not repentance, lest haply they should again profane His name."


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Found: Hermas:672:4 @ "Listen," saith he; "those whose rods were found withered and grub-eaten, these are the renegades and traitors to the Church, that blasphemed the Lord in their sins, and still further were ashamed of the Name of the Lord, which was invoked upon them. These then perished altogether unto God. But thou seest how not one of them repented, although they heard the words which thou spakest to them, which I commanded thee. From men of this kind life departed.


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Found: Hermas:773:1 @ "But as many as gave up (the rods) half-withered, and with cracks in them, hear also concerning these. Those whose rods were half-withered throughout are the double-minded; for they neither live nor are dead.


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Found: Hermas:975:1 @ "But they that have given up their rods two thirds withered and one third green, these are men who have been believers, but grew rich and became renowned among the Gentiles. They clothed themselves with great pride and became high-minded, and abandoned the truth and did not cleave to the righteous, but lived together after the manner of the Gentiles, and this path appeared the more pleasant unto them; yet they departed not from God, but continued in the faith, though they wrought not the works of the faith.


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Found: Hermas:975:4 @ But others of them were doubtful-minded, not hoping to be saved by reason of the deeds that they had done; and others were double-minded and made divisions among themselves. For these then that were double-minded by reason of their doings there is still repentance; but their repentance ought to be speedy, that their dwelling may be within the tower; but for those who repent not, but continue in their pleasures, death is nigh.


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Found: Hermas:1177:3 @ He answered and said unto me; "As many," saith he, "as shall repent from their whole heart and shall cleanse themselves from all the evil deeds aforementioned, and shall add nothing further to their sins, shall receive healing from the Lord for their former sins, unless they be double-minded concerning these commandments, and they shall live unto God. [But as many," saith he, "as shall add to their sins and walk in the lusts of this world, shall condemn themselves to death.]


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Found: Hermas:178:8 @ the seventh mountain had smiling vegetation, and the whole mountain was in a thriving condition, and cattle and birds of every kind did feed upon that mountain; and the more the cattle and the birds did feed, so much the more did the herbage of that mountain flourish. The eighth mountain was full of springs, and every kind of creature of the Lord did drink of the springs on that mountain.


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Found: Hermas:279:1 @ And in the middle of the plain he showed me a great white rock, rising up from the plain. The rock was loftier than the mountains, being four-square, so that it could contain the whole world.


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Found: Hermas:279:5 @ After I had seen these things, I marvelled in myself at the greatness and the glory of what I was seeing And again I was perplexed concerning the virgins, that delicate as they were they stood up like men, as if they intended to carry the whole heaven.


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Found: Hermas:380:1 @ I saw six men come, tall and glorious and alike in appearance and they summoned a multitude of men. And the others also which came were tall men and handsome and powerful. And the six men ordered them to build a tower above the gate. And there arose a great noise from those men who had come to build the tower, as they ran hither and thither round the gate.


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Found: Hermas:481:2 @ Now the building of the tower was upon the great rock and above the gate. Those ten stones then were joined together, and they covered the whole rock. And these formed a foundation for the building of the tower. And the rock and the gate supported the whole tower.


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Found: Hermas:481:8 @ And they say to the men who were bringing the stones in; "Abstain for your parts altogether from handing in stones for the building; but place them by the tower, that the virgins may carry them through the gate, and hand them in for the building. For if," say they, they be not carried in through the gate by the hands of these virgins, they cannot change their colors. Labor not therefore," say they, "in vain."


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Found: Hermas:683:2 @ And the six men who superintended the building walked with him on the right hand and on the left, and all they that worked at the building were with him, and many other glorious attendants around him. And the virgins that watched the tower ran up and kissed him, and they began to walk by his side round the tower.


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Found: Hermas:784:1 @ So then, having accomplished these things, the glorious man who was lord of the whole tower called the shepherd to him, and delivered unto him all the stones which lay by the side of the tower, which were cast out from the building, and saith unto him;


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Found: Hermas:784:3 @ Having given these orders to the shepherd, he departed from the tower with all those with whom he had come. And the virgins stood round the tower watching it.


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Found: Hermas:1188:8 @ Then came the shepherd, and saith to the virgins; "Have ye done him any injury?" "Ask him," say they. I say to him, "Sir, I was rejoiced to stay with them." "On what didst thou sup?" saith he "I supped, Sir," say I, "on the words of the Lord the whole night through." "Did they treat thee well?" saith he. "Yes, Sir," say I.


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Found: Hermas:1289:8 @ "The glorious man," saith he, "is the Son of God, and those six are the glorious angels who guard Him on the right hand and on the left. Of these glorious angels not one," saith he, "shall enter in unto God without Him; whosoever shall not receive His name, shall not enter into the kingdom of God."


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Found: Hermas:1390:2 @ "And these virgins, who are they?" "They," saith he, "are holy spirits; and no man can otherwise be found in the kingdom of God, unless these shall clothe him with their garment; for if thou receive only the name, but receive not the garment from them, thou profitest nothing. For these virgins are powers of the Son of God. If therefore thou bear the Name, and bear not His power, thou shalt bear His Name to none effect.


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Found: Hermas:1390:8 @ After a certain time then they were persuaded by the women whom thou sawest clad in black raiment, and having their shoulders bare and their hair loose, and beautiful in form. When they saw them they desired them, and they clothed themselves with their power, but they stripped off from themselves the power of the virgins.


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Found: Hermas:13[90^:5 @ "Listen," saith he. "The name of the Son of God is great and incomprehensible, and sustaineth the whole world. If then all creation is sustained by the Son of God, what thinkest thou of those that are called by Him, and bear the name of the Son of God, and walk according to His commandments?


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Found: Hermas:13[90^:6 @ Seest thou then what manner of men He sustaineth? Even those that bear His name with their whole heart. He Himself then is become their foundation, and He sustaineth them gladly, because they are not ashamed to bear His name."


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Found: Hermas:1592:4 @ "But the stones, Sir," say I, "that came from the deep, and were fitted into the building, who are they?" "The first," saith he, "even the ten, that were placed in the foundations, are the first generation; the twenty-five are the second generation of righteous men; the thirty-five are God's prophets and His ministers; the forty are apostles and teachers of the preaching of the Son of God."


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Found: Hermas:15[92^:5 @ "Wherefore, Sir," say I, "did the forty stones also come up with them from the deep, though they had already received the seal?" "Because," saith he, "these, the apostles and the teachers who preached the name of the Son of God, after they had fallen asleep in the power and faith of the Son of God, preached also to them that had fallen asleep before them, and themselves gave unto them the seal of the preaching.


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Found: Hermas:1794:1 @ "Now then, Sir, explain to me concerning the mountains. Wherefore are their forms diverse the one from the other, and various?" "Listen," saith he. "These twelve mountains are twelve tribes that inhabit the whole world. To these (tribes) then the Son of God was preached by the Apostles."


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Found: Hermas:1794:2 @ But explain to me, Sir, why they are various--these mountains--and each has a different appearance." "Listen," saith he. "These twelve tribes which inhabit the whole world are twelve nations; and they are various in understanding and in mind. As various, then, as thou sawest these mountains to be, such also are the varieties in the mind of these nations, and such their understanding. And I will show unto thee the conduct of each."


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Found: Hermas:20[97^:4 @ Such are neither alive nor dead. Yet these also, if they repent quickly, shall be able to live; but if they repent not, they are delivered over already to the women who deprive them of their life.


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Found: Hermas:2299:4 @ Yea, and to the rest that belong to this class repentance is offered; for they did not become wicked, but rather foolish and without understanding. If these then shall repent, they shall live unto God; but if they repent not, they shall have their abode with the women who work evil against them.


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Found: Hermas:23100:4 @ If God and our Lord, Who ruleth over all things and hath the authority over all His creation, beareth no grudge against them that confess their sins, but is propitiated, doth man, who is mortal and full of sins, bear a grudge against man, as though he were able to destroy or save him?


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Found: Hermas:24101:1 @ " And from the seventh mountain, on which was herbage green and smiling, and the whole mountain thriving, and cattle of every kind and the fowls of heaven were feeding on the herbage on that mountain, and the green herbage, on which they fed, only grew the more luxuriant, they that believed are such as these;


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Found: Hermas:24101:4 @ But I say unto you that are such--I, the angel of repentance--remain to the end such as ye are, and your seed shall never be blotted out. For the Lord hath put you to the proof, and enrolled you among our number, and your whole seed shall dwell with the Son of God; for of His Spirit did ye receive.


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Found: Hermas:25102:2 @ apostles and teachers, who preached unto the whole world, and who taught the word of the Lord in soberness and purity, and kept back no part at all for evil desire, but walked always in righteousness and truth, even as also they received the Holy Spirit. Such therefore shall have their entrance with the angels.


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Found: Hermas:26103:6 @ And this I say not in reference to these days, that a man after denying should receive repentance; for it is impossible for him to be saved who shall now deny his Lord; but for those who denied Him long ago repentance seemeth to be possible. If a man therefore will repent, let him do so speedily before the tower is completed; but if not, he shall be destroyed by the women and put to death.


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Found: Hermas:26103:8 @ These then are broken off short from their faith through the conduct which they have in themselves; but some of them repented and were saved; and the rest that are of this kind can be saved, if they repent; but if they repent not, they shall meet their death from those women of whose power they are possessed.


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Found: Hermas:27104:2 @ bishops, hospitable persons, who gladly received into their houses at all times the servants of God without hypocrisy. These bishops at all times without ceasing sheltered the needy and the widows in their ministration and conducted themselves in purity at all times.


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Found: Hermas:27[104^:2 @ they that suffered for the Name of the Son of God, who also suffered readily with their whole heart, and yielded up their lives."


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Found: Hermas:27[104^:5 @ See to it, therefore, ye who entertain this idea, lest this design remain in your hearts, and ye die unto God. But ye that suffer for the Name's sake ought to glorify God, because God deemed you worthy that ye should bear this name, and that all your sins should be healed.


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Found: Hermas:27[104^:8 @ If the Gentiles punish their slaves, if any one deny his lord, what think ye the Lord will do unto you, He who has authority over all things? Away with these designs from your hearts, that ye may live forever unto God."


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Found: Hermas:27[104_:1 @ "And from the twelfth mountain, which was white, they that believed are such as these; they that are as very babes, into whose heart no guile entereth, neither lernt they what wickedness is, but they remained as babes forever.


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Found: Hermas:27[104`:3 @ But if he added (stones) from other mountains, he would have been obliged to visit the tower again, and to purify it. Now all these have been found white, who have believed and who shall believe; for they are of the same kind. Blessed is this kind, for it is innocent!


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Found: Hermas:27[104a:3 @ Blessed I pronounced you all to be--I the angel of repentance--whoever of you are guileless as infants, because your part is good and honorable in the sight of God.


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Found: Hermas:27[104a:4 @ Moreover I bid all of you, whoever have received this seal, keep guilelessness, and bear no grudge, and continue not in your wickedness nor in the memory of the offenses of bitterness; but become of one spirit, and heal these evil clefts and take them away from among you, that the owner of the flocks may rejoice concerning them.


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Found: Hermas:27[104a:5 @ For he will rejoice, if he find all things whole. But if he find any part of the flock scattered, woe unto the shepherds.


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Found: Hermas:32109:2 @ The Lord dwelleth in men that love peace; for to Him peace is dear; but from the contentious and them that are given up to wickedness He keepeth afar off. Restore therefore to Him your spirit whole as ye received it.


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Found: Hermas:32109:3 @ For suppose thou hast given to a fuller a new garment whole, and desirest to receive it back again whole, but the fuller give it back to thee torn, wilt thou receive it thus? Wilt thou not at once blaze out and attack him with reproaches, saying; "The garment which I gave thee was whole; wherefore hast thou rent it and made it useless? See, by reason of the rent, which thou hast made in it, it cannot be of use." Wilt thou not then say all this to a fuller even about a rent which he has made in thy garment?


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Found: Hermas:32109:4 @ If therefore thou art thus vexed in the matter of thy garment, and complainest because thou receivest it not back whole, what thinkest thou the Lord will do to thee, He, Who gave thee the spirit whole, and thou hast made it absolutely useless, so that it cannot be of any use at all to its Lord? For its use began to be useless, when it was corrupted by thee. Will not therefore the Lord of this spirit for this thy deed punish thee with death?"


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Found: Hermas:32109:5 @ "Certainly," I said, "all those, whomsoever He shall find continuing to bear malice, He will punish." "Trample not," said he, "upon His mercy, but rather glorify Him, because He is so long-suffering with your sins, and is not like unto you. Practice then repentance which is expedient for you.


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Found: Hermas:33110:3 @ "Listen now," said he, "concerning them. These are they that have heard my commandments now, and have practiced repentance with their whole heart. So when the Lord saw that their repentance was good and pure, and that they could continue therein, he ordered their former sins to be blotted out. These shapes then were their former sins, and they have been chiseled away that they might not appear."


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Found: Hermas:1111:1 @ After I had written out this book completely, the angel who had delivered me to the shepherd came to the house where I was, and sat upon a couch, and the shepherd stood at his right hand. Then he called me, and spake thus unto me;


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Found: Hermas:1111:3 @ For if thou keep his commandments, all evil desire and the sweetness of this world shall be subject unto thee; moreover success shall attend thee in every good undertaking. Embrace his gravity and self-restraint, and tell it out unto all men that he is held in great honor and dignity with the Lord, and is a ruler of great authority, and powerful in his office. To him alone in the whole world hath authority over repentance been assigned. Seemeth he to thee to be powerful? Yet ye despise the gravity and moderation which he useth towards you."


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Found: Hermas:2112:2 @ "I myself know," said he, "that thou hast done nothing out of order, nor art about to do so. And so I speak these things unto thee, that thou mayest persevere. For he hath given a good account of thee unto me. Thou therefore shalt speak these words to others, that they too who have practiced or shall practice repentance may be of the same mind as thou art; and he may give a good report of them to me, and I unto the Lord."


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Found: Hermas:2112:3 @ "I too, Sir," I say, "declare to every man the mighty works of the Lord; for I hope that all who have sinned in the past, if they hear these things, will gladly repent and recover life."


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Found: Hermas:2112:4 @ "Continue therefore," said he, "in this ministry, and complete it unto the end. For whosoever fulfill his commandments shall have life; yea such a man (shall have) great honor with the Lord. But whosoever keep not his commandments, fly from their life, and oppose him, and follow not his commandments, but deliver themselves over to death; and each one becometh guilty of his own blood. But I bid thee obey these commandments, and thou shalt have a remedy for thy sins.


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Found: Hermas:3113:3 @ I said unto him, "I hope, Sir, that I shall please them, so that they may gladly dwell in my house for ever; and just as he to whom thou didst deliver me maketh no complaint against me, so they likewise shall make no complaint."


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Found: Hermas:4114:1 @ He said then to me, "Quit you like a man in this ministry; declare to every man the mighty works of the Lord, and thou shalt have favor in this ministry. Whosoever therefore shall walk in these commandments, shall live and be happy in his life; but whosoever shall neglect them, shall not live, and shall be unhappy in his life.


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Found: Hermas:4114:2 @ Charge all men who are able to do right, that they cease not to practice good works; for it is useful for them. I say moreover that every man ought to be rescued from misfortune; for he that hath need, and suffereth misfortune in his daily life, is in great torment and want.


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Found: Hermas:4114:3 @ Whosoever therefore rescueth from penury a life of this kind, winneth great joy for himself. For he who is harassed by misfortune of this sort is afflicted and tortured with equal torment as one who is in chains. For many men on account of calamities of this kind, because they can bear them no longer, lay violent hands on themselves. He then who knows the calamity of a man of this kind and rescueth him not, committeth great sin, and becometh guilty of the man's blood.


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Found: Hermas:4114:4 @ Do therefore good works, whoever of you have received (benefits) from the Lord, lest, while ye delay to do them, the building of the tower be completed. For it is on your account that the work of the building has been interrupted. Unless then ye hasten to do right, the tower will be completed, and ye shut out."


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:prologue:1 @ Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, unto her which hath been blessed in greatness through the plentitude of God the Father; which hath been foreordained before the ages to be forever and unto abiding and unchangeable glory, united and elect in a true passion, by the will of the Father and of Jesus Christ our God; even unto the church which is at Ephesus of Asia, worthy of all felicitation; abundant greeting in Christ Jesus and in blameless joy.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:1:3 @ seeing then in God's name I have received your whole multitude in the person of Onesimus, whose love passeth utterance and who is moreover your bishop in the flesh and I pray that ye may love him according to Jesus Christ and that ye all may be like him; for blessed is He that granted unto you according to your deserving to have such a bishop.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:2:1 @ But as touching my fellow servant Burrhus, who by the will of God is your deacon blessed in all things, I pray that he may remain with me to the honor of yourselves and of your bishop. Yea, and Crocus also, who is worthy of God and of you whom I received as an ensample of the love which ye bear me, hath relieved me in all ways--even so may the Father of Jesus Christ refresh him--together with Onesimus and Burrhus and Euplus and Fronto; in whom I saw you all with the eyes of love.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:2:2 @ May I have joy of you always, if so be I an worthy of it. It is therefore meet for you in every way to glorify Jesus Christ who glorified you; that being perfectly joined together in one submission, submitting yourselves to your bishop and presbytery, ye may be sanctified in all things.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:5:1 @ For if I in a short time had such converse with your bishop, which was not after the manner of men but in the Spirit, how much more do I congratulate you who are closely joined with him as the Church is with Jesus Christ and as Jesus Christ is with the Father, that all things may be harmonious in unity.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:5:2 @ Let no man be deceived. If any one be not within the precinct of the altar, he lacketh the bread of God. For, if the prayer of one and another hath so great force, how much more that of the bishop and of the whole Church.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:6:1 @ And in proportion as a man seeth that his bishop is silent, let him fear him the more. For every one whom the Master of the household sendeth to be steward over His own house, we ought so to receive as Him that sent him. Plainly therefore we ought to regard the bishop as the Lord Himself.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:7:1 @ For some are wont of malicious guile to hawk about the Name, while they do certain other things unworthy of God. These men ye ought to shun, as wild-beasts; for they are mad dogs, biting by stealth; against whom ye ought to be on your guard, for they are hard to heal.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:8:1 @ Let no one therefore deceive you, as indeed ye are not deceived, seeing that ye belong wholly to God. For when no lust is established in you, which hath power to torment you, then truly ye live after God. I devote myself for you, and I dedicate myself as an offering for the church of you Ephesians which is famous unto all the ages.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:9:1 @ But I have learned that certain persons passed through you from yonder, bringing evil doctrine; whom ye suffered not to sow seed in you, for ye stopped your ears, so that ye might not receive the seed sown by them; forasmuch as ye are stones of a temple, which were prepared beforehand for a building of God the Father, being hoisted up to the heights through the engine of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross, and using for a rope the Holy Spirit; while your faith is your windlass, and love is the way that leadeth up to God.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:10:3 @ Let us show ourselves their brothers by our forbearance; but let us be zealous to be imitators of the Lord, vying with each other who shall suffer the greater wrong, who shall be defrauded, who shall be set at nought; that no herb of the devil be found in you: but in all purity and temperance abide ye in Christ Jesus, with your flesh and with your spirit.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:11:2 @ Let nothing glitter in your eyes apart from Him, in whom I carry about my bonds, my spiritual pearls in which I would fain rise again through your prayer, whereof may it be my lot to be always a partaker, that I may be found in the company of those Christians of Ephesus who moreover were ever of one mind with the Apostles in the power of Jesus Christ.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:12:1 @ I know who I am and to whom I write. I am a convict, ye have received mercy: I am in peril, ye are established.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:12:2 @ Ye are the high-road of those that are on their way to die unto God. Ye are associates in the mysteries with Paul, who was sanctified, who obtained a good report, who is worthy of all felicitation; in whose foot-steps I would fain be found treading, when I shall attain unto God; who in every letter maketh mention of you in Christ Jesus.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:15:1 @ It is better to keep silence and to be, than to talk and not to be. It is a fine thing to teach, if the speaker practice. Now there is one teacher, who spake and it came to pass: yea and even the things which He hath done in silence are worthy of the Father.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:20:2 @ especially if the Lord should reveal aught to me. Assemble yourselves together in common, every one of you severally, man by man, in grace, in one faith and one Jesus Christ, who after the flesh was of David's race, who is Son of Man and Son of God, to the end that ye may obey the bishop and the presbytery without distraction of mind; breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality and the antidote that we should not die but live for ever in Jesus Christ.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:21:1 @ I am devoted to you and to those whom for the honor of God ye sent to Smyrna; whence also I write unto you with thanksgiving to the Lord, having love for Polycarp as I have for you also. Remember me, even as I would that Jesus Christ may also remember you.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:21:2 @ Pray for the church which is in Syria, whence I am led a prisoner to Rome-- I who am the very last of the faithful there; according as I was counted worthy to be found unto the honor of God. Fare ye well in God the Father and in Jesus Christ our common hope.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:prologue:1 @ Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, unto her which hath been blessed through the grace of God the Father in Christ Jesus our Savior, in whom I salute the church which is in Magnesia on the Maeander, and I wish her abundant greeting in God the Father and in Jesus Christ.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:1:2 @ For being counted worthy to bear a most godly name, in these bonds, which I carry about, I sing the praise of the churches; and I pray that there may be in them union of the flesh and of the spirit which are Jesus Christ's, our never-failing life--and union of faith and of love which is preferred before all things, and--what is more than all--an union with Jesus and with the Father, in whom if we endure patiently all the despite of the prince of this world and escape therefrom, we shall attain unto God.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:2:1 @ Forasmuch then as I was permitted to see you in the person of Damas your godly bishop and your worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius and my fellow-servant the deacon Zotion, of whom I would fain have joy, for that he is subject to the bishop as unto the grace of God and to the presbytery as unto the law of Jesus Christ:--


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:3:2 @ For the honor therefore of Him that desired you, it is meet that ye should be obedient without dissimulation. For a man doth not so much deceive this bishop who is seen, as cheat that other who is invisible; and in such a case he must reckon not with flesh but with God who knoweth the hidden things.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:5:1 @ Seeing then that all things have an end, and these two life and death--are set before us together, and each man shall go to his own place; for just as there are two coinages, the one of God and the other of the world, and each of them hath its proper stamp impressed upon it, the unbelievers the stamp of this world, but the faithful in love the stamp of God the Father through Jesus Christ, through whom unless of our own free choice we accept to die unto His passion, His life is not in us:--


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:6:1 @ Seeing then that in the aforementioned persons I beheld your whole people in faith and embraced them, I advise you, be ye zealous to do all things in godly concord, the bishop presiding after the likeness of God and the presbyters after the likeness of the council of the Apostles, with the deacons also who are most dear to me, having been entrusted with the diaconate of Jesus Christ, who was with the Father before the worlds and appeared at the end of time.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:7:1 @ Therefore as the Lord did nothing without the Father, being united with Him, either by Himself or by the Apostles, so neither do ye anything without the bishop and the presbyters. And attempt not to think anything right for yourselves apart from others: but let there be one prayer in common, one supplication, one mind, one hope, in love and in joy unblamable, which is Jesus Christ, than whom there is nothing better.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:7:2 @ Hasten to come together all of you, as to one temple, even God; as to one altar, even to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from One Father and is with One and departed unto One.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:8:2 @ for the divine prophets lived after Christ Jesus. For this cause also they were persecuted, being inspired by His grace to the end that they which are disobedient might be fully persuaded that there is one God who manifested Himself through Jesus Christ His Son, who is His Word that proceeded from silence, who in all things was well-pleasing unto Him that sent Him.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:9:1 @ If then those who had walked in ancient practices attained unto newness of hope, no longer observing Sabbaths but fashioning their lives after the Lord's day, on which our life also arose through Him and through His death which some men deny--a mystery whereby we attained unto belief, and for this cause we endure patiently, that we may be found disciples of Jesus Christ our only teacher--


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:9:2 @ if this be so, how shall we be able to live apart from Him? seeing that even the prophets, being His disciples, were expecting Him as their teacher through the Spirit. And for this cause He whom they rightly awaited, when He one, raised them from the dead.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:10:1 @ Therefore let us not be insensible to His goodness. For if He should imitate us according to our deeds, we are lost. For this cause, seeing that we are become His disciples, let us learn to live as beseemeth Christianity. For whoso is called by another name besides this, is not of God.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:12:1 @ Let me have joy of you in all things, if I be worthy. For even though I am in bonds, yet am I not comparable to one of you who are at liberty. I know that ye are not puffed up; for ye have Jesus Christ in yourselves. And, when I praise you, I know that ye only feel the more shame; as it is written the righteous man is a self-accuser.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:13:1 @ Do your diligence therefore that ye be confirmed in the ordinances of the Lord and of the Apostles, that ye may prosper in all things whatsoever ye do in flesh and spirit, by faith and by love, in the Son and Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, with your revered bishop, and with the fitly wreathed spiritual circlet of your presbytery, and with the deacons who walk after God.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:prologue:1 @ Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, to the church of God the Father and of Jesus Christ, which is in Philadelphia of Asia which hath found mercy and is firmly established in the concord of God and rejoiceth in the passion of our Lord and in His resurrection without wavering, being fully assured in all mercy; which church I salute in the blood of Jesus Christ, that is eternal and abiding joy more especially if they be at one with the bishop and the presbyters who are with him, and with the deacons that have been appointed according to the mind of Jesus Christ, whom after His own will He confirmed and established by His Holy Spirit.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:1:2 @ whose silence is more powerful than others speech. For he is attuned in harmony with the commandments, as a lyre with its strings. Wherefore my soul blesseth his godly mind, for I have found that it is virtuous and perfect--even the imperturbable and calm temper which he hath, while living in all godly forbearance.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:5:1 @ My brethren, my heart overfloweth altogether in love towards you; and rejoicing above measure I watch over your safety; yet not I, but Jesus Christ, wearing whose bonds I am the more afraid, because I am not yet perfected. But your prayer will make me perfect unto God, that I may attain unto the inheritance wherein I have found mercy, taking refuge in the Gospel as the flesh of Jesus and in the Apostles as the presbytery of the Church.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:5:2 @ Yea, and we love the prophets also, because they too pointed to the Gospel in their preaching and set their hope on Him and awaited Him; in whom also having faith they were saved in the unity of Jesus Christ, being worthy of all love and admiration as holy men, approved of Jesus Christ and numbered together in the Gospel of our common hope.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:6:1 @ But if any one propound Judaism unto you, hear him not: for it is better to hear Christianity from a man who is circumcised than Judaism from one uncircumcised. But if either the one or the other speak not concerning Jesus Christ, I look on them as tombstones and graves of the dead, whereon are inscribed only the names of men.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:6:3 @ I give thanks to my God, that I have a good conscience in my dealings with you, and no man can boast either in secret or openly, that I was burdensome to any one in small things or in great. Yea and for all among whom I spoke, it is my prayer that they may not turn it into a testimony against themselves.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:7:2 @ Howbeit there were those who suspected me of saying this, because I knew beforehand of the division of certain persons. But He in whom I am bound is my witness that I learned it not from flesh of man; it was the preaching of the Spirit who spake on this wise; Do nothing without the bishop; keep your flesh as a temple of God; cherish union; shun divisions; be imitators of Jesus Christ, as He Himself also was of His Father.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:8:1 @ I therefore did my own part, as a man composed unto union. But where there is division and anger, there God abideth not. Now the Lord forgiveth all men when they repent, if repenting they return to the unity of God and to the council of the bishop. I have faith in the grace of Jesus Christ, who shall strike off every fetter from you; and I entreat you,


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:9:1 @ The priests likewise were good, but better is the High-priest to whom is committed the holy of holies; for to Him alone are committed the hidden things of God; He Himself being the door of the Father, through which Abraham and Isaac and Jacob enter in, and the Prophets and the Apostles and the whole Church; all these things combine in the unity of God.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:11:1 @ But as touching Philo the deacon from Cilicia, a man of good report, who now also ministereth to me in the word of God, together with Rhaius Agathopus, an elect one who followeth me from Syria, having bidden farewell to this present life; the same who also bear witness to you--and I myself thank God on your behalf, because ye received them, as I trust the Lord will receive you. But may those who treated them with dishonor be redeemed through the grace of Jesus Christ.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:11:2 @ The love of the brethren which are in Troas saluteth you; from whence also I write to you by the hand of Burrhus, who was sent with me by the Ephesians and Smyrnaeans as a mark of honor. The Lord shall honor them, even Jesus Christ, on whom their hope is set in flesh and soul and spirit, by faith, love, and by concord. Fare ye well in Christ Jesus our common hope.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:prologue:1 @ Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, unto Polycarp who is bishop of the church of the Smyrnaens or rather who hath for his bishop God the Father and Jesus Christ, abundant greeting.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:3:2 @ Be thou more diligent than thou art. Mark the seasons. Await Him that is above every season, the Eternal, the Invisible, who became visible for our sake, the Impalpable, the Impassible, who suffered for our sake, who endured in all ways for our sake.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:6:1 @ Give ye heed to the bishop, that God also may give heed to you. I am devoted to those who are subject to the bishop, the presbyters, the deacons. May it be granted me to have my portion with them in the presence of God. Toil together one with another, struggle together, run together, suffer together, lie down together, rise up together, as God's stewards and assessors and ministers.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:6:2 @ Please the Captain in whose army ye serve, from whom also ye will receive your pay. Let none of you be found a deserter. Let your baptism abide with you as your shield; your faith as your helmet; your love as your spear; your patience as your body armor. Let your works be your deposits, that ye may receive your assets due to you. Be ye therefore long-suffering one with another in gentleness, as God is with you. May I have joy of you always.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:7:2 @ It becometh thee, most blessed Polycarp, to call together a godly council and to elect some one among you who is very dear to you and zealous also, who shall be fit to bear the name of God's courier--to appoint him, I say, that he may go to Syria and glorify your zealous love unto the glory of God.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:8:1 @ Since I have not been able to write to all the churches, by reason of my sailing suddenly from Troas to Neapolis, as the Divine will enjoineth, thou shalt write to the churches in front, as one possessing the mind of God, to the intent that they also may do this same thing--let those who are able send messengers, and the rest letters by the persons who are sent by thee, that ye may be glorified by an ever memorable deed--for this is worthy of thee.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:8:2 @ I salute all by name, and especially the wife of Epitropus with her whole household and her children's. I salute Attalus my beloved. I salute him that shall be appointed to go to Syria. Grace shall be with him always, and with Polycarp who sendeth him.


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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:8:3 @ I bid you farewell always in our God Jesus Christ, in whom abide ye in the unity and supervision of God. I salute Alce, a name very dear to me. Fare ye well in the Lord.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:prologue:1 @ Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, unto her that hath found mercy in the bountifulness of the Father Most High and of Jesus Christ His only Son; to the church that is beloved and enlightened through the will of Him who willed all things that are, by faith and love towards Jesus Christ our God; even unto her that hath the presidency in the country of the region of the Romans, being worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of felicitation, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy in purity, and having the presidency of love, walking in the law of Christ and bearing the Father's name; which church also I salute in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of the Father; unto them that in flesh and spirit are united unto His every commandment, being filled with the grace of God without wavering, and filtered clear from every foreign stain; abundant greeting in Jesus Christ our God in blamelessness.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:5:1 @ From Syria even unto Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only wax worse when they are kindly treated. Howbeit through their wrong doings I become more completely a disciple; yet am I not hereby justified.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:5:3 @ Bear with me. I know what is expedient for me. Now am I beginning to be a disciple. May naught of things visible and things invisible envy me; that I may attain unto Jesus Christ. Come fire and cross and grapplings with wild beasts, cuttings and manglings, wrenching of bones, hacking of limbs, crushings of my whole body, come cruel tortures of the devil to assail me. Only be it mine to attain unto Jesus Christ.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:6:1 @ The farthest bounds of the universe shall profit me nothing, neither the kingdoms of this world. It is good for me to die for Jesus Christ rather than to reign over the farthest bounds of the earth. Him I seek, who died on our behalf; Him I desire, who rose again for our sake.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:6:2 @ The pangs of a new birth are upon me. Bear with me, brethren. Do not hinder me from living; do not desire my death. Bestow not on the world one who desireth to be God's, neither allure him with material things. Suffer me to receive the pure light. When I am come thither, then shall I be a man.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:7:1 @ The prince of this world would fain tear me in pieces and corrupt my mind to Godward. Let not any of you therefore who are near abet him. Rather stand ye on my side, that is on God's side. Speak not of Jesus Christ and withal desire the world. Let not envy have a home in you.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:7:3 @ I have no delight in the food of corruption or in the delights of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Christ who was of the seed of David; and for a draught I desire His blood, which is love incorruptible.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:8:2 @ And Jesus Christ shall make manifest unto you these things, that I speak the truth--Jesus Christ, the unerring mouth in whom the Father hath spoken truly.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:10:1 @ Now I write these things to you from Smyrna by the hand of the Ephesians who are worthy of all felicitation. And Crocus also, a name very dear to me, is with me, with many others besides.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:10:2 @ As touching those who went before me from Syria to Rome unto the glory of God, I believe that ye have received instructions; whom also apprise that I am near; for they all are worthy of God and of you, and it becometh you to refresh them in all things.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:prologue:1 @ Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, to the church of God the Father and of Jesus Christ the Beloved, which hath been mercifully endowed with every grace, being filled with faith and love and lacking in no grace, most reverend and bearing holy treasures; to the church which is in Smyrna of Asia, in a blameless spirit and in the word of God abundant greeting.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:1:1 @ I give glory to Jesus Christ the God who bestowed such wisdom upon you; for I have perceived that ye are established in faith immovable, being as it were nailed on the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, in flesh and in spirit, and firmly grounded in love in the blood of Christ, fully persuaded as touching our Lord that He is truly of the race of David according to the flesh, but Son of God by the Divine will and power, truly born of a virgin and baptized by John that all righteousness might be fulfilled by Him,


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:4:1 @ But these things I warn you, dearly beloved, knowing that ye yourselves are so minded. Howbeit I watch over you betimes to protect you from wild beasts in human form--men whom not only should ye not receive, but, if it were possible, not so much as meet them; only pray ye for them, if haply they may repent. This indeed is difficult, but Jesus Christ, our true life, hath power over it.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:4:2 @ For if these things were done by our Lord in semblance, then am I also a prisoner in semblance. And why then have I delivered myself over to death, unto fire, unto sword, unto wild beasts? But near to the sword, near to God; in company with wild beasts, in company with God. Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, so that we may suffer together with Him. I endure all things, seeing that He Himself enableth me, who is perfect Man.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:6:1 @ Let no man be deceived. Even the heavenly beings and the glory of the angels and the rulers visible and invisible, if they believe not in the blood of Christ who is God, judgment awaiteth them also. He that receiveth let him receive. Let not office puff up any man; for faith and love are all in all, and nothing is preferred before them.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:6:2 @ But mark ye those who hold strange doctrine touching the grace of Jesus Christ which came to us, how that they are contrary to the mind of God. They have no care for love, none for the widow, none for the orphan, none for the afflicted, none for the prisoner, none for the hungry or thirsty. They abstain from eucharist (thanksgiving) and prayer, because they allow not that the eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which flesh suffered for our sins, and which the Father of His goodness raised up.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:8:1 @ But shun divisions, as the beginning of evils. Do ye all follow your bishop, as Jesus Christ followed the Father, and the presbytery as the Apostles; and to the deacons pay respect, as to God's commandment. Let no man do aught of things pertaining to the Church apart from the bishop. Let that be held a valid eucharist which is under the bishop or one to whom he shall have committed it.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:9:2 @ May all things therefore abound unto you in grace, for ye are worthy. Ye refreshed me in all things, and Jesus Christ shall refresh you. In my absence and in my presence ye cherished me. May God recompense you; for whose sake if ye endure all things, ye shall attain unto Him.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:10:1 @ Philo and Rhaius Agathopus, who followed me in the cause of God, ye did well to receive as ministers of Christ God; who also give thanks to the Lord for you, because ye refreshed them in every way. Nothing shall be lost to you.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:10:2 @ My spirit is devoted for you, as also are my bonds, which ye despised not, neither were ashamed of them. Nor shall He, who is perfect faithfulness, be ashamed of you, even Jesus Christ.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:12:1 @ The love of the brethren which are in Troas saluteth you; from whence also I write to you by the hand of Burrhus, whom ye sent with me jointly with the Ephesians your brethren. He hath refreshed me in all ways. And I would that all imitated him, for he is an ensample of the ministry of God. The Divine grace shall requite him in all things.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:13:1 @ I salute the households of my brethren with their wives and children, and the virgins who are called widows. I bid you farewell in the power of the Father. Philo, who is with me, saluteth you.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:1:1 @ We write unto you, brethren, an account of what befell those that suffered martyrdom and especially the blessed Polycarp, who stayed the persecution, having as it were set his seal upon it by his martyrdom. For nearly all the foregoing events came to pass that the Lord might show us once more an example of martyrdom which is conformable to the Gospel


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:2:2 @ For who could fail to admire their nobleness and patient endurance and loyalty to the Master? seeing that when they were so torn by lashes that the mechanism of their flesh was visible even as far as the inward veins and arteries, they endured patiently, so that the very bystanders had pity and wept; while they themselves reached such a pitch of bravery that none of them uttered a cry or a groan, thus showing to us all that at that hour the martyrs of Christ being tortured were absent from the flesh, or rather that the Lord was standing by and conversing with them.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:4:1 @ But one man, Quintus by name, a Phrygian newly arrived from Phrygia, when he saw the wild beasts, turned coward. He it was who had forced himself and some others to come forward of their own free will. This man the proconsul by much entreaty persuaded to swear the oath and to offer incense. For this cause therefore, brethren, we praise not those who deliver themselves up, since the Gospel doth not so teach us.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:6:1 @ And as those that were in search of him persisted, he departed to another farm; and forthwith they that were in search of him came up; and not finding him, they seized two slave lads, one of whom confessed under torture;


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:6:2 @ for it was impossible for him to lie concealed, seeing that the very persons who betrayed him were people of his own household. And the captain of the police, who chanced to have the very name, being called Herod, was eager to bring him into the stadium, that he himself might fulfill his appointed lot, being made a partaker with Christ, while they--his betrayers--underwent the punishment of Judas himself.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:8:1 @ But when at length he brought his prayer to an end, after remembering all who at any time had come in his way, small and great, high and low, and all the universal Church throughout the world, the hour of departure being come, they seated him on an ass and brought him into the city, it being a high Sabbath.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:8:2 @ And he was met by Herod the captain of police and his father Nicetes, who also removed him to their carriage and tried to prevail upon him, seating themselves by his side and saying, 'Why what harm is there in saying, Caesar is Lord, and offering incense', with more to this effect, 'and saving thyself?' But he at first gave them no answer. When however they persisted, he said, 'I am not going to do what ye counsel me.'


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:9:1 @ But as Polycarp entered into the stadium, a voice came to him from heaven; 'Be strong, Polycarp, and play the man.' And no one saw the speaker, but those of our people who were present heard the voice. And at length, when he was brought up, there was a great tumult, for they heard that Polycarp had been apprehended.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:9:2 @ When then he was brought before him, the proconsul enquired whether he were the man. And on his confessing that he was, he tried to persuade him to a denial saying, 'Have respect to thine age,' and other things in accordance therewith, as it is their wont to say; 'Swear by the genius of Caesar; repent and say, Away with the atheists.' Then Polycarp with solemn countenance looked upon the whole multitude of lawless heathen that were in the stadium, and waved his hand to them; and groaning and looking up to heaven he said, 'Away with the atheists.'


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:9:3 @ But when the magistrate pressed him hard and said, 'Swear the oath, and I will release thee; revile the Christ,' Polycarp said, 'Fourscore and six years have I been His servant, and He hath done me no wrong. How then can I blaspheme my King who saved me?'


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:10:1 @ But on his persisting again and saying, 'Swear by the genius of Caesar,' he answered, 'If thou supposest vainly that I will swear by the genius of Caesar, as thou sayest, and feignest that thou art ignorant who I am, hear thou plainly, I am a Christian. But if thou wouldest learn the doctrine of Christianity, assign a day and give me a hearing.'


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:12:2 @ When this was proclaimed by the herald, the whole multitude both of Gentiles and of Jews who dwelt in Smyrna cried out with ungovernable wrath and with a loud shout, 'This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the puller down of our gods, who teacheth numbers not to sacrifice nor worship.' Saying these things, they shouted aloud and asked the Asiarch Philip to let a lion loose upon Polycarp. But he said that it was not lawful for him, since he had brought the sports to a close.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:12:3 @ Then they thought fit to shout out with one accord that Polycarp should be burned alive. For it must needs be that the matter of the vision should be fulfilled, which was shown him concerning his pillow, when he saw it on fire while praying, and turning round he said prophetically to the faithful who were with him, 'I must needs be burned alive.'


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:13:2 @ But when the pile was made ready, divesting himself of all his upper garments and loosing his girdle, he endeavored also to take off his shoes, though not in the habit of doing this before, because all the faithful at all times vied eagerly who should soonest touch his flesh. For he had been treated with all honor for his holy life even before his gray hairs came.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:14:1 @ So they did not nail him, but tied him. Then he, placing his hands behind him and being bound to the stake, like a noble ram out of a great flock for an offering, a burnt sacrifice made ready and acceptable to God, looking up to heaven said; 'O Lord God Almighty, the Father of Thy beloved and blessed Son Jesus Christ, through whom we have received the knowledge of Thee, the God of angels and powers and of all creation and of the whole race of the righteous, who live in Thy presence;


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:14:3 @ For this cause, yea and for all things, I praise Thee, I bless Thee, I glorify Thee, through the eternal and heavenly High-priest, Jesus Christ, Thy beloved Son, through whom with Him and the Holy Spirit be glory both now and ever and for the ages to come. Amen.'


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:15:1 @ When he had offered up the Amen and finished his prayer, the firemen lighted the fire. And, a mighty flame flashing forth, we to whom it was given to see, saw a marvel, yea and we were preserved that we might relate to the rest what happened.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:16:2 @ In the number of these was this man, the glorious martyr Polycarp, who was found an apostolic and prophetic teacher in our own time, a bishop of the holy Church which is in Smyrna. For every word which he uttered from his mouth was accomplished and will be accomplished.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:17:2 @ So he put forward Nicetes, the father of Herod and brother of Alce, to plead with the magistrate not to give up his body, 'lest,' so it was said, 'they should abandon the crucified one and begin to worship this man'--this being done at the instigation and urgent entreaty of the Jews, who also watched when we were about to take it from the fire, not knowing that it will be impossible for us either to forsake at any time the Christ who suffered for the salvation of the whole world of those that are saved--suffered though faultless for sinners--nor to worship any other.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:19:1 @ So it befell the blessed Polycarp, who having with those from Philadelphia suffered martyrdom in Smyrna--twelve in all--is especially remembered more than the others by all men, so that he is talked of even by the heathen in every place: for he showed himself not only a notable teacher, but also a distinguished martyr, whose martyrdom all desire to imitate, seeing that it was after the pattern of the Gospel of Christ.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:20:1 @ Ye indeed required that the things which happened should be shown unto you at greater length: but we for the present have certified you as it were in a summary through our brother Marcianus. When then ye have informed yourselves of these things, send the letter about likewise to the brethren which are farther off, that they also may glorify the Lord, who maketh election from His own servants.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:20:2 @ Now unto Him that is able to bring us all by His grace and bounty unto His eternal kingdom, through His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ, be glory, honor, power, and greatness for ever. Salute all the saints. They that are with us salute you, and Euarestus, who wrote the letter, with his whole house.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:21:1 @ Now the blessed Polycarp was martyred on the second day of the first part of the month Xanthicus, on the seventh before the calends of March, on a great Sabbath, at the eighth hour. He was apprehended by Herodes, when Philip of Tralles was high priest, in the proconsulship of Statius Quadratus, but in the reign of the Eternal King Jesus Christ. To whom be the glory, honor, greatness, and eternal throne, from generation to generation. Amen.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:22:1 @ We bid you God speed, brethren, while ye walk by the word of Jesus Christ which is according to the Gospel; with whom be glory to God for the salvation of His holy elect; even as the blessed Polycarp suffered martyrdom, in whose footsteps may it be our lot to be found in the kingdom of Jesus Christ.


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:22:4 @ And I Pionius again wrote it down from the aforementioned copy, having searched it out (for the blessed Polycarp showed me in a revelation, as I will declare in the sequel), gathering it together when it was now well nigh worn out by age, that the Lord Jesus Christ may gather me also with His elect into His heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. {2** THE THREE PROCEEDING PARAGRAPHS AS READ IN THE MOSCOW MS. **}2 @ {9 @


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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:22:2 @ This account Gaius copied from the papers of Irenaeus. The same lived with Irenaeus who had been a disciple of the holy Polycarp. For this Irenaeus, being in Rome at the time of the martyrdom of the bishop Polycarp, instructed many; and many most excellent and orthodox treatises by him are in circulation. In these he makes mention of Polycarp, saying that he was taught by him. And he ably refuted every heresy, and handed down the catholic rule of the Church just as he had received it from the saint. He mentions this fact also, that when Marcion, after whom the Marcionites are called, met the holy Polycarp on one occasion, and said 'Recognize us, Polycarp,' he said in reply to Marcion, 'Yes indeed, I recognize the firstborn of Satan.' The following statement also is made in the writings of Irenaeus, that on the very day and hour when Polycarp was martyred in Smyrna Irenaeus being in the city of the Romans heard a voice as of a trumpet saying, ' Polycarp is martyred.'


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:22:4 @ And I Pionius again wrote it down from the copy of Isocrates, having searched for it in obedience to a revelation of the holy Polycarp, gathering it together, when it was well nigh worn out by age, that the Lord Jesus Christ may gather me also with His elect into His heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:1:2 @ and that the steadfast root of your faith which was famed from primitive times abideth until now and beareth fruit unto our Lord Jesus Christ, who endured to face even death for our sins, whom God raised, having loosed the pangs of Hades; on whom,


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:2:1 @ Wherefore gird up your loins and serve God in fear and truth, forsaking the vain and empty talking and the error of the many, for that ye have believed on Him that raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and gave unto him glory and a throne on His right hand; unto whom all things were made subject that are in heaven and that are on the earth; to whom every creature that hath breath doeth service; who cometh as judge of quick and dead; whose blood God will require of them that are disobedient unto Him.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:3:2 @ For neither am I, nor is any other like unto me, able to follow the wisdom of the blessed and glorious Paul, who when he came among you taught face to face with the men of that day the word which concerneth truth carefully and surely; who also, when he was absent, wrote a letter unto you, into the which if ye look diligently, ye shall be able to be builded up unto the faith given to you,


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:5:2 @ In like manner deacons should be blameless in the presence of His righteousness, as deacons of God and Christ and not of men; not calumniators, not double-tongued, not lovers of money, temperate in all things, compassionate, diligent, walking according to the truth of the Lord who became a minister (deacon) of all. For if we be well pleasing unto Him in this present world, we shall receive the future world also, according as He promised us to raise us from the dead, and that if we conduct ourselves worthily of Him we shall also reign with Him, if indeed we have faith.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:5:3 @ In like manner also the younger men must be blameless in all things, caring for purity before everything and curbing themselves from every evil. For it is a good thing to refrain from lusts in the world, for every lust warreth against the Spirit, and neither whoremongers nor effeminate persons nor defilers of themselves with men shall inherit the kingdom of God, neither they that do untoward things. Wherefore it is right to abstain from all these things, submitting yourselves to the presbyters and deacons as to God and Christ. The virgins must walk in a blameless and pure conscience.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:6:3 @ Let us therefore so serve Him with fear and all reverence, as He himself gave commandment and the Apostles who preached the Gospel to us and the prophets who proclaimed beforehand the coming of our Lord; being zealous as touching that which is good, abstaining from offenses and from the false brethren and from them that bear the name of the Lord in hypocrisy, who lead foolish men astray.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:7:1 @ For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is antichrist: and whosoever shall not confess the testimony of the Cross, is of the devil; and whosoever shall pervert the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts and say that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, that man is the firstborn of Satan.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:8:1 @ Let us therefore without ceasing hold fast by our hope and by the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ who took up our sins in His own body upon the tree, who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, but for our sakes He endured all things, that we might live in Him.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:9:1 @ I exhort you all therefore to be obedient unto the word of righteousness and to practice all endurance, which also ye saw with your own eyes in the blessed Ignatius and Zosimus and Rufus, yea and in others also who came from among yourselves, as well as in Paul himself and the rest of the Apostles;


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:9:2 @ being persuaded that all these ran not in vain but in faith and righteousness, and that they are in their due place in the presence of the Lord, with whom also they suffered. For they loved not the present world, but Him that died for our sakes and was raised by God for us.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:10:3 @ But woe to him through whom the name of the Lord be blasphemed. Therefore teach all men soberness, in which ye yourselves also walk.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:11:1 @ I was exceedingly grieved for Valens, who aforetime was a presbyter among you, because he is so ignorant of the office which was given unto him. I warn you therefore that ye refrain from covetousness, and that ye be pure and truthful. Refrain from all evil.


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Found: Polycarp:11:2 @ But he who cannot govern himself in these things, how doth he enjoin this upon another? If a man refrain not from covetousness, he shall be defiled by idolatry, and shall be judged as one of the Gentiles who know not the judgment of the Lord, Nay, know we not, that the saints shall judge the world, as Paul teacheth?


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:11:3 @ But I have not found any such thing in you, neither have heard thereof, among whom the blessed Paul labored, who were his letters in the beginning. For he boasteth of you in all those churches which alone at that time knew God; for we knew Him not as yet.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:11:4 @ Therefore I am exceedingly grieved for him and for his wife, unto whom may the Lord grant true repentance. Be ye therefore yourselves also sober herein, and hold not such as enemies but restore them as frail and erring members, that ye may save the whole body of you. For so doing, ye do edify one another.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:12:2 @ Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal High-priest Himself the [Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth, and in all gentleness and in all avoidance of wrath and in forbearance and long suffering and in patient endurance and in purity; and may He grant unto you a lot and portion among His saints, and to us with you, and to all that are under heaven, who shall believe on our Lord and God Jesus Christ and on His Father that raised him from the dead.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:13:1 @ Ye wrote to me, both ye yourselves and Ignatius, asking that if any one should go to Syria he might carry thither the letters from you. And this I will do, if I get a fit opportunity, either I myself, or he whom I shall send to be ambassador on your behalf also.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Polycarp:14:1 @ I write these things to you by Crescens, whom I commended to you recently and now commend unto you: for he hath walked blamelessly with us; and I believe also with you in like manner. But ye shall have his sister commended, when she shall come to you. Fare ye well in the Lord Jesus Christ in grace, ye and all yours. Amen.


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL who @ (19)


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL whole @ (19)


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL whom @ (21)


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL whomsoever @ (3)


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL whose @ (6)


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL whoso @ (6)


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL whosoever @ (36)


PBIBLXBIBLETRANSLATIONS.txt
Found: bwe@Matthew:1 @ TITLE: Bible in Worldwide English NT DESCRIPTION: The Bible in Worldwide English (BWE)\par This New Testament was originally prepared by Annie Cressman, who died in 1993. She was a Canadian Bible teacher in Liberia in West Africa. Whilst teaching students in a Bible School where the language used was English, she found that she was spending more time explaining the meaning of the English than she was teaching the Bible itself. So she decided to write this simple version in easy English so that her students could easily understand.\par\par In 1959 the Full Gospel Publishing House in Toronto, Canada, printed a trial edition of the Gospel of Mark. A further edition was published in 1962 by the American Bible Society. The whole New Testament was first published by SOON Publications in India in 1969 in hardback form. This was assisted by Operation Mobilisation (OM) and was reprinted in 1971.\par\par The vision to reprint a new edition of the whole New Testament has now been carried out by SOON in conjunction with EPH and OM. Where a change to more modern words has been made, this has been kept in line with the the Authorised Version. RIGTHS: unknown PUBLISHER: freedom for bible ORG


PBIBLXBIBLETRANSLATIONS.txt
Found: emtv@Matthew:1 @ TITLE: English Majority Text Version DESCRIPTION: Welcome to the third edition of The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible. This latest edition has Greek explanatory notes throughout the Bible, to aid the reader in understanding the meanings in some select places of the original Koine Greek. Also, the third edition finds itself closer to the Robinson/Pierpoint printed edition of the Byzantine majority text, rather than the Hodges/Farstad text, which the EMTV was translated from. You will notice these differences in John 7:53-8:11, as well as the entire book of Revelation. The English Majority Text Version draws from the work of both Dr.’s Hodges and Farstad, and their text, “The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text,” as well as from Dr. Wilbur Pickering, ThM. PhD., and the EMTV has incorporated his hard work in the field of producing evidence of just what does constitute a majority reading, and, as a result of his work, and the work of others, John 7:53-8:11, and the book of Revelation reflect these variant readings. This is one of the great things about having a Bible that is translated from the majority of the trustworthy Byzantine manuscripts that are in existence—the much greater probability of accuracy. On the other side of the fence, most modern Bibles are translated from a few scant manuscripts (literally), and more often than not they do not even agree with each other. Not so with a Bible that is translated out of the majority! The experts in linguistics who have put these readings together, and diligently compared the manuscripts, had hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts to compare. It is my prayer that this work will bring honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to our God and Father; because all of this, all that we do, we do to know Him better, and to better understand His word, which He has given to mankind. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. (Prove 30:5,6). Peace of Christ to you all. In His service, Paul W Esposito Stauros Ministries RIGTHS: Paul W Esposito President, Stauros Ministries PO Box 3004 Cocoa, Fl. 32924 (321) 403-5782 PUBLISHER:


BIBLELAW.txt
Found: strkjv@Exodus:22:20 @ Destroy those who sacrifice to other gods - OldTestamentLaw - ScripturalOrder


BIBLELAW.txt
Found: strkjv@Leviticus:17:7 @ Idolatry is devil worship and whoredom - OldTestamentLaw - ScripturalOrder


BIBLELAW.txt
Found: strkjv@Leviticus:21:7 @ Don't marry a whore or divorcee - OldTestamentLaw - ScripturalOrder


BIBLELAW.txt
Found: strkjv@Leviticus:21:9-10 @ Daughter of priest who is a whore shall be burnt - OldTestamentLaw - ScripturalOrder


BIBLELAW.txt
Found: strkjv@Deuteronomy:27:26 @ Cursed be he who does not do all the law - OldTestamentLaw - ScripturalOrder


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: who @ kjv@CONCORD:who


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whole @ kjv@CONCORD:whole


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: wholesome @ kjv@CONCORD:wholesome


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: wholly @ kjv@CONCORD:wholly


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whom @ kjv@CONCORD:whom


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whomsoever @ kjv@CONCORD:whomsoever


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whore @ kjv@CONCORD:whore


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whoredom @ kjv@CONCORD:whoredom


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whoredoms @ kjv@CONCORD:whoredoms


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whoremonger @ kjv@CONCORD:whoremonger


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whoremongers @ kjv@CONCORD:whoremongers


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whores @ kjv@CONCORD:whores


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whoring @ kjv@CONCORD:whoring


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whorish @ kjv@CONCORD:whorish


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whose @ kjv@CONCORD:whose


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whoso @ kjv@CONCORD:whoso


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: whosoever @ kjv@CONCORD:whosoever


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: widowhood @ kjv@CONCORD:widowhood


PRAYERGUIDE.txt
Found: strkjv@1Timothy:2:2 @ Pray for those who govern your nation and the world, that we may live in peace and godliness. - PrayerWhatTo


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Genesis:5:27 @Man who lived to be 969 years old - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Genesis:28:11 @Man who used a stone for a pillow - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Numbers:22:28-29 @Man who was spoken to by an ass - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Deuteronomy:3:11 @Giant who had a bed 13ft. 6 in. long by 6ft. wide - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Deuteronomy:21:11-13 @The women who had to shave their heads before marriage - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Joshua:10:13 @Sun and moon stood still for a whole day - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@2Samuel:14:26 @Man whose hair weighed about 6.5lbs. at his annual haircut - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@2Samuel:21:20 @Man who had twelve fingers and twelve toes - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@1Kings:11:1-3 @Man who had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@1Kings:18:41-46 @Man who outran a chariot - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@2Kings:6:29 @Woman who boiled and ate her son - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@2Kings:9:30-36 @Woman whose body was eaten by dogs - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@2Chronicles:11:21 @Father who had eighty-eight children - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Isaiah:20:2-3 @Man who walked naked for three years - UnusualStory


UNUSUALBIBLESTORIES.txt
Found: strkjv@Isaiah:38:1-5 @Man whose life was increased by fifteen years because he prayed - UnusualStory


IDENTITYINCHRIST.txt
Found: http://www.victorymountain.org/guides/whoami.htm @ Adapted from several similar sources to VictoryMountain.org


IDENTITYINCHRIST.txt
Found: strkjv@Philippians:4:13 @I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Genesis:12:3 @ Jesus By OTProphecy - The Messiah will be a descendant of Abraham, through whom everyone on earth will be blessed kjv@Acts:3:25-26


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Genesis:18:18 @ Jesus By OTProphecy - The Messiah will be a descendant of Abraham, through whom everyone on earth will be blessed kjv@Acts:3:25-26


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Psalms:118:22-23 @ Jesus By OTProphecy - The Messiah is a “stone the builders rejected” who will become the “head cornerstone” kjv@Matthew:21:42-43; kjv@Acts:4:11; kjv@Ephesians:2:20; kjv@1Peter:2:6-8


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Isaiah:28:16 @ Jesus By OTProphecy - The Messiah is a “stone the builders rejected” who will become the “head cornerstone” kjv@Matthew:21:42-43; kjv@Acts:4:11; kjv@Ephesians:2:20; kjv@1Peter:2:6-8


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:6:29 @ Jesus By Command - believe on him whom he hath sent


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:10:11-13 @ Jesus By Command - enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence...come into an house, salute it...let your peace come upon it...let your peace return to you


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:20:26 @ Jesus By Command - whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:3:7 @ O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:7:9 @ Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:12:27 @ And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:12:48 @ Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:16:15 @ But whom say ye that I am? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:16:26 @ For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:17:25 @ What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:22:42 @ Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:24:45 @ Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Mark:8:29 @ And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Mark:8:36 @ For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:3:7 @ O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:6:34 @ And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:9:20 @ He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:9:25 @ For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:11:19 @ And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:12:14 @ who made me a judge or a divider over you? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:12:20 @ then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:12:42 @ Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:13:16 @ And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:16:11 @ who will commit to your trust the true riches? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:16:12 @ who shall give you that which is your own? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:5:6 @ Wilt thou be made whole? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:7:23 @ If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:10:36 @ Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:12:38 @ That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? - Jesus By Question


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:20:15 @ Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? - Jesus By Question


NGRAMGOSPELALPHA.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL I say unto you, That whosoever @ 4


BIBLETRANSLATIONINDEX.csv
Found: bwe@Matthew:1,ENGLISH:, Bible in Worldwide English NT, The Bible in Worldwide English (BWE)\par This New Testament was originally prepared by Annie Cressman, who died in 1993. She was a Canadian Bible teacher in Liberia in West Africa. Whilst teaching students in a Bible School where the language used was English, she found that she was spending more time explaining the meaning of the English than she was teaching the Bible itself. So she decided to write this simple version in easy English so that her students could easily understand.\par\par In 1959 the Full Gospel Publishing House in Toronto, Canada, printed a trial edition of the Gospel of Mark. A further edition was published in 1962 by the American Bible Society. The whole New Testament was first published by SOON Publications in India in 1969 in hardback form. This was assisted by Operation Mobilisation (OM) and was reprinted in 1971.\par\par The vision to reprint a new edition of the whole New Testament has now been carried out by SOON in conjunction with EPH and OM. Where a change to more modern words has been made, this has been kept in line with the the Authorised Version., unknown, freedom for bible ORG


BIBLETRANSLATIONINDEX.csv
Found: emtv@Matthew:1,ENGLISH:, English Majority Text Version, Welcome to the third edition of The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible. This latest edition has Greek explanatory notes throughout the Bible, to aid the reader in understanding the meanings in some select places of the original Koine Greek. Also, the third edition finds itself closer to the Robinson/Pierpoint printed edition of the Byzantine majority text, rather than the Hodges/Farstad text, which the EMTV was translated from. You will notice these differences in John 7:53-8:11, as well as the entire book of Revelation. The English Majority Text Version draws from the work of both Dr.’s Hodges and Farstad, and their text, “The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text,” as well as from Dr. Wilbur Pickering, ThM. PhD., and the EMTV has incorporated his hard work in the field of producing evidence of just what does constitute a majority reading, and, as a result of his work, and the work of others, John 7:53-8:11, and the book of Revelation reflect these variant readings. This is one of the great things about having a Bible that is translated from the majority of the trustworthy Byzantine manuscripts that are in existence—the much greater probability of accuracy. On the other side of the fence, most modern Bibles are translated from a few scant manuscripts (literally), and more often than not they do not even agree with each other. Not so with a Bible that is translated out of the majority! The experts in linguistics who have put these readings together, and diligently compared the manuscripts, had hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts to compare. It is my prayer that this work will bring honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to our God and Father; because all of this, all that we do, we do to know Him better, and to better understand His word, which He has given to mankind. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. (Prove 30:5-6). Peace of Christ to you all. In His service, Paul W Esposito Stauros Ministries, Paul W Esposito President, Stauros Ministries PO Box 3004 Cocoa, Fl. 32924 (321) 403-5782


NATURALREMEDY.csv
Found: Bitter Almond Essential Oil,Properties: It is traditionally used as a vermifuge/ febrifuge/ bactericide/ germicide/ fungicide/ sedative/ anesthetic/ aperient/ diuretic/ anti-intoxicant/ antispasmodic/ and as a cure for hydrophobia.,Health benefits: The uses of bitter almond essential oil are widely ranged/ and include killing worms/ reducing fever/ killing bacteria/ germs and fungi/ sedation and reducing inflammation. It can also cause numbness and act as an anesthetic or desensitizing agent. It is purgative/ increases urination and helps remove excess water/ salt/ toxins/ and fat from the body/ while countering the effects of intoxicants/ curing spasms/ and helping to cure hydrophobia/ which is the fear of water/ most commonly presenting itself in someone who has contracted rabies.,,ESSENTIAL OIL


ESSENTIALOILS.csv
Found: Bitter Almond Essential Oil,Properties: It is traditionally used as a vermifuge/ febrifuge/ bactericide/ germicide/ fungicide/ sedative/ anesthetic/ aperient/ diuretic/ anti-intoxicant/ antispasmodic/ and as a cure for hydrophobia.,Health benefits: The uses of bitter almond essential oil are widely ranged/ and include killing worms/ reducing fever/ killing bacteria/ germs and fungi/ sedation and reducing inflammation. It can also cause numbness and act as an anesthetic or desensitizing agent. It is purgative/ increases urination and helps remove excess water/ salt/ toxins/ and fat from the body/ while countering the effects of intoxicants/ curing spasms/ and helping to cure hydrophobia/ which is the fear of water/ most commonly presenting itself in someone who has contracted rabies.,