The Canons of the Council of Orange?INTRODUCTIONThe Council of Orange was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. This controv...
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above Which has God for its author; which is infused into the soul by the Spirit of God; and leads into the kno...
Luke 24:25 Then he said unto them That is, Jesus said unto them, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: O fools; not in a natural sense, as if they w...
Extracts from the Acts. Session I.Extracts from the Acts. Session I. (Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom. VII., col. 53.)[Certain bishops who had been l...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease. Knowing no troubles of their own, the easy ones grow ...
2 Samuel 1:6 And the young man that told him So it seems he was, and therefore could not be Doeg, more likely his son of the two; but there is no reas...
Luke 2:18 And all they that heard it What the shepherds related of what they had heard from the angel, and from Joseph and Mary, and what they had see...
Book XIII.Book XIII. Faustus asserts that even if the Old Testament could be shown to contain predictions, it would be of interest only to the Jews, p...
Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them The locusts, by Christ, who has a sovereign power over all men, and lays them under the restraints of his pro...
1. WHEN these affairs had been thus settled by Caesar, a certain young man, by birth a Jew, but brought up by a Roman freed-man in the city Sidon, ...
Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar By which is meant, not the cross of Christ, on which he was crucified; nor the Lord's table, where his flesh and blood ...
Tractate XXIX.Tractate XXIX. John 7:14-18.1. What follows of the Gospel and was read to-day, we must next in order look at, and speak from it as the L...
It is our view that Babylon simply means . . . Babylon! The only problem with taking Babylon in its literal sense is one of timing and faith. Because ...
Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath In Corinth there was a synagogue of the Jews, in which they met together for worship on the s...
Chapter?47 God's judgments on Babylon. (1-6) Carelessness and confidence shall not prevent the evil. (7-15) Verses 1-6 Babylon is represente...
?EXPOSITION Verse 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken. I could not have spoken thus if it had not been for my faith: I should never have spoken un...
Letter LI. Second Letter to Lucifer.Letter LI. Second Letter to Lucifer.To the most glorious lord and deservedly much-desired fellow-Bishop Lucifer, A...
Another possible explanation is to understand the references to God?s book (Ex. Ex. 32:32-33), the book of the living (Ps. Ps. 69:28), the book (Dan....
Appendix Appendix(1) We do not deny that all these things which have been brought forward by you in opposition are contained in the writings of the an...
Those by the wayside (oi para thn odon). As in Mark 4:15 ; Matthew 13:19 so here the people who hear the word = the seed are discussed by metonymy...