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"value": "This quality was so cultivated by the blessed Paul, that he is ever looking out for inducements to be humble. They who are conscious to themselves of great merits must struggle much with themselves if they would be humble. And he too was one likely to be under violent temptation... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "Howbeit, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. These words are sometimes misunderstood. They are not intended as an excuse, any more than St. John's designation of himself as"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "[26] There were many who, like himself, had opposed the truth and persecuted the Christ. Why did any of them obtain mercy? Why did he receive such marked favour and honour? Not because of any merit on their part or his: but because they had sinned ignorantly (_i.e._, without kno... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "the R.V. gives us"
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"value": "A similar change has been made in _v._ 7 of the next chapter, where"
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"value": "I was _appointed_ a preacher takes the place of"
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"value": "I am ordained ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "The generous compassion shown to St. Paul is not unique or exceptional; it is typical. And it is a type, not to the few, but to many; not to clergy only, but to all."
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"value": "For this cause I obta... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "This charge I commit unto thee, my own child Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare; holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith: of whom is Hym... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, _according to the prophecies which went before on thee_. As the margin of the R.V. points out, this last phrase might also be read"
},
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "for the Greek may mean either. The question is, whether... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee _by prophecy_, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery! and"
},
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the l... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "is frequently understood in far too limited a sense. It is commonly restricted to the one function of predicting the future. But, if we may venture to coin words in order to bring out points of differences, there are three main ideas involved in the title"
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"from": "... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation.... Let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern. But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence. For _ye ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "and when"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles we find prophets among the ministers of the Church, just as in the Epistles to the Corinthians, Ephesians, and Philippians. The date of this interesting treatise has yet to be ascertained; but it seems to belong to the period between the Epistles ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck: of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme."
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "is a very intelligible periphrasis for"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "Excommunication involved"
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"from": "human",
"value": "[30] It is admitted that"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "means something extraordinary, over and above excommunication. This, therefore, is an advantage which the second mode of interpreting the expression has at the outset. Excommunication was a punishment which the congregation itself could inflict; but this handing over to Satan wa... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Satan hindered his work, or warns the Corinthians that"
},
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "and tells them that his own sore trouble in the flesh was, like Job's,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "him. Not less clear is the teaching of St. Peter and St. John in ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "and that"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "But at the same time he admits that"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "element in the Christian faith, the belief in a power,"
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "And he is permitted even to lead us into sin, in order to save us from spiritual pride, and to convince us that apart from Christ and in our own strength we can do nothing. These are not Satan's motives, but they are God's motives in allowing him to be"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men: for kings and all that are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity"
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Temple-keeper of the great Artemis (Acts xix. 35), every street through which the Christians walked, and every heathen house which they entered, was full of pagan abominations; to say nothing of the magnificent temples, beautiful groves, and seductive idolatrous rites, which wer... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "that he desires to have made: and in all probability he did not carefully distinguish in his mind the shades of meaning which are proper to the three terms which he uses. Whatever various kinds of supplication there may be which are offered by man at the throne of grace, he urge... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it."
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "represents a vital truth. Every human being is one of our brethren, and, whether we like the responsibility or not, we are still our"
},
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "In our keeping, to a very real extent, lie the supreme issues of his spiritual life, and we have to loo... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Above all, we forget that the truest gratitude is shown, not in words or feelings, but in conduct. We should send good deeds after good words to heaven. Not that our ingratitude provokes God to withhold His gifts; but that it does render us less capable of receiving them. For th... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "I desire, therefore, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing. In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment; but (which bec... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "as if the meaning were,"
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{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our ways are not like those of the Jews; for they were not allowed to sacrifice and perform their services anywhere, but assembling from all parts of the world were bound to perform all their worship in the templ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "Lifting up holy hands. Here again we need not suspect any polemical purpose. St. Paul is not insinuating that, when Gnostics or heathen lift up their hands in prayer, their hands are not holy. Just as every Christian is ideally a saint, so every hand that is lifted up in prayer ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Without wrath and disputing: that is, in the spirit of Christian peace and trust. Ill-will and misgiving respecting one another are incompatible with united prayer to our common Father. The atmosphere of controversy is not congenial to devotion. Christ Himself has told us to be ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Apelles the painter seeing one of his pupils painting a figure thickly with gold colour to represent Helen, said to him; 'My lad, you were unable to paint her beautiful, and so you have made her rich.' Such Helens are the ladies of the present day; not really beautiful, but rich... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "You are Christian women, says St. Paul,"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "(v. 12, 13). The three functions here enumerated are evidently functions to be exercised by a few with regard to the many: they are not duties which every one is to discharge towards every one. In the Third Epistle of St. John, which is certainly one of the latest, and perhaps t... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "By our reception or denial of priesthood in the Church, our entire view of what the Church is must be affected and moulded. We shall either accept the idea of a visible and organized body, within which Christ rules by means of a ministry, sacraments, and ordinances to which He h... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "The Idea of the Priesthood,"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "The husband of one wife."
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "(μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ). In the fourth passage (1 Tim. v. 9) he gives as a necessary qualification of one who is to be placed on the roll of church widows, that she must be a"
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"value": "or"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "It is better for you to follow God than your senseless and blind teachers, who even to this day allow you each to have four and five wives"
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "If men with more than one wife were very rare in the Roman Empire, what are we to think of women with more than one husband? Even among the barbarians outside the Empire, such a thing as a plurality of husbands was regarded as monstrous. It is incredible that St. Paul could have... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "; in the Epistle to Titus it is"
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39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "and to say that one who thus severs himself from his dead wife is an"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "Respecting the clergy, Origen says plainly,"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Neither a bishop, nor a presbyter, nor a deacon, nor a widow, can be twice mar... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Do not ordain a man who has married more than once. If you may say,"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "This man, who has married more than once, shall be _accounted_ as having married only once; you may equally well say"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ap... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "St. Paul _required_ the presbyter-bishop to have had the experience of marriage and with at least a preference for those who had brought up children (1 Tim. iii. 2, 4), and extended the requirement even to the deacons of the Church (1 Tim. iii. 11, 12), it seems to be worth whil... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly; but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. And without controversy great is the my... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, received up in glory."
},
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"from": "gpt",
"value": ": and it is certain that St. Paul did not write,"
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"from": "human",
"v... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who with which the quotation begins will refer to something in the preceding lines which are not quoted. How natural, then, that St. Paul should leave the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who unchanged, although it does not fit on grammatically to his own sentence. But... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death (Matt. xxvi. 38; Mark xiv. 34)."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour (John xii. 27). The spirit is the seat of the religious emotions: it is the hi... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "does not impose a pattern for imitation without at the same time granting the grace necessary for struggling towards it. To reach it is impossible--at any rate in this life. But the consciousness that we cannot reach perfection is no excuse for aiming at imperfection. The sinles... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Who has been changed into"
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit. But"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Exercise thyself unto godliness: for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come"
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "of this suicidal kind was"
},
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "even"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the contrary, as we have seen already, he condemns the whole system in the very strongest terms. It is a blasphemy against God's goodness and a libel on huma... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Exercise thyself unto godliness. In using the expression"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exercise thyself (γύμναζε σεαυτόν) he was of course borrowing, as he so constantly does borrow, from the language which was used respecting gymnastic contests in the public games.... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. It is by no means a useless thing. In its proper place it has a real value. Taken in moderation it tends to preserve health and increase strength. It may sometimes be the means of gaining for ourselves and for the circle to which we be... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Godliness is profitable for _all_ things, having promise not only"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Its value is not confined to the things of this world, although it enriches and glorifies them all. And, unlike bodily exercise, its good results are certain. There is no... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The world is only too ready to take note of evidence which points to a conclusion so in harmony with its own predilections. It is, and has been from the beginning, prejudiced against religion; and its adherents are quick to seize upon, and make the most of, anything which appear... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to shew piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.... Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity."
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Her characteristic is that she is"
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Natural affection will cause these to take care that their widowed parent does not come to want. If it does not, then they must learn that"
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Instead of continuing in prayers and supplications night and day, she continues in frivolity and luxury, or worse. Of her, as of the Church of Sardis, it may be said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead"
},
{
"f... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Concerning a deaconess, I Bartholomew make this constitution: O Bishop, thou shalt lay thy hands upon her in the presence of the presbytery and of the deacons and deaconesses, and shalt say; O Eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of man and of woman; Who... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "the Apostle states a principle which has had a wide and permanent influence not only on ecclesiastical discipline but upon European legislation. Speaking of the growth of the modern idea of a will, by which a man can regulate the descent of his property inside and outside his fa... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "I salute the keepers of the holy doors, the deaconesses in Christ (_Ant._ xii.)."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let the deaconesses stand at the entries of the women (_Apost. Const._ ii. 57, 58)."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For we stand in need of a ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. Some men's sins are evident, going before unto judgment; and some men also they fol... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "has the same meaning throughout this chapter. When in the first part of it St. Paul says"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father, it is quite clear that he is speaking simply of elderly men, and not of persons holding the office... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Neither be partaker of other men's sins. It is usual to understand this warning as referring to the responsibility of those who ordain. If, through haste or carelessness you ordain an unfit person, you must share the guilt of the sins which he afterwards commits as an elder. The... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Some men's sins are evident, going before unto judgment; and some men also they follow after. In like manner also there are good works that are evident; and such as are otherwise cannot be hid."
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "And some men also they follow after. There are cases in which men's sins, though of course not less manifest to the Almighty, are much less manifest to the world, and even to _themselves_, than in the case of flagrant, open sinners. The consequences of their sins are less conspi... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "The works that are good are evident; and such as are not evident cannot be hid. No saint knows his own holiness; and many a humble seeker after holiness does good deeds without knowing how good they are. Still less are all saints known as such to the world, or all good deeds rec... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let as many as are bond-servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the rather, ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have no right to own these persons; you must free your slaves. St. Paul, without attacking the rights of property or existing laws and customs, spoke a far higher word, and one which sooner or later must carry the freedom with it, when he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While you are still under the yoke prove yourselves worthy of it and capable of bearing it. In becoming Christians you have become Christ's freeman. Show that you can enjoy that liberty without abusing it. If it leads you to treat a heathen master with disdain, because he has it... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not high minded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, Who gives us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth. That is how St. Paul describes the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as it was known to him by grievous experience. There were men who had once been in possession of a sound mind, whereby to recognize and gras... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but that they supposed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They considered godliness, or rather the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which was all that they really possessed, to be a profitable investment. Christianity to them was a"
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Righteousness exalteth a nation : it invariably pays in the long run. And so"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Godliness with contentment is great gain."
}
] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It makes a man a better master, a better servant, a better citizen, and both in mind and body a healthier and therefore a stronger man. Above all it makes him a happier man; for it gives him that which is the foundation of all happiness in this life, and the foretaste of happine... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We brought nothing into the world and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can carry nothing out. As to the words which connect these two propositions in the original Greek, there seems to be some primitive error which we cannot now correct with any certainty. We are no... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "whose temple was both a sanctuary and a bank. Let Christian merchants deposit theirs with God by being"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "so that, when He called them to Himself, they might receive their own with usury, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pa... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "As regards his antecedents he was a marked contrast to Timothy. Whereas Timothy had been brought up as a Jew under the care of his Jewish mother Eunice, and had been circumcised by St. Paul's desire, Titus was wholly a Gentile, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as S... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whether any inquire about Titus, he is my partner and my fellow-worker to you-ward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks be to God, which putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. For indeed he accepted our exhortation; but being himself very ea... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "; and what is true of mankind generally is true also of the ministry--"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not good for man to be alone. But cases often arise in which not more than one man can be spared for each post; and then those who have been all in all to one ... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "or"
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"from": "gpt",
"value": "as we might render the original expression (κατὰ πόλιν). This implies that among the multitude of cities, for which Crete even in Homer's day had been famous, not a few had a Christian congregation in need of supervision; and it is n... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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] |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was so much that had never been done at all; so much that required to be secured and established; so much that already needed correction. And while he was attending to the wants of one Church, another not less important, not less dear to him, was equally in need of his hel... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "A man in whom the congregation have no confidence, because of the bad repute which attaches to himself or his family, is not to be appointed. In this way the congregation have an indirect veto; for the man to whom they cannot give a good character may not be taken to be set over... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's steward is the key to all that follows respecting the qualities to be looked for in an elder or overseer of the Church: and, as the order of the words in the Greek shows, the emphasis is on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God's rather than on"
},
{
"from... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art thou jealous for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, is the spirit in which these instructions are given, and no doubt were accepted. There is no grasping after power in the great Apostle of the Gentiles; no desire to keep everything in his own hands... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's steward must be ready to sink every personal interest in the interests of the great Employer. He has nothing of his own. He deals with his Master's goods, and must deal with them in his Master's way. He who labours in this spirit will one day be rewarded by the Divine voic... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Evil communications corrupt good m... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "), were both of them Stoics: and the speech in which the quotation occurs, short as it is in the Acts, abounds in parallels to the teaching of St. Paul's Stoic contemporary Seneca. If St. Paul tells us that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seneca teaches that"
},
{... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This book in truth changed my affections, and turned my prayers to Thyself, O Lord, and made me have other hopes and desires. He quotes, among other classical authors, not only Virgil, Livy, Lucan, Sallust, Horace, Pliny and Quintillian, but Terence, Persius, and Juvenal, and of... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(A.D. 361-363), which had brought the question very much to the front. His policy and legislation probably influenced Augustine and Jerome in taking a more liberal line in the matter, in spite of Latin dislike of Greek philosophy and their own ascetic tendencies. Julian, jealous... |
39628 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abstain from all heathen books. For what hast thou to do with such foreign discourses, or laws, or false prophets, which subvert the faith of the unstable? For what defect dost thou find in the law of God, that thou shouldest have recourse to those heathenish fables? etc., etc. ... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We should be shrinking from a plain duty, did we leave out Literature from Education. For why do we educate except to prepare for the world? Why do we cultivate the intellect of the many beyond the first elements of knowledge, except ... to fit men of the world for the world? We... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the pure all things are pure. In the first century, in which the perils of heathenism to Christianity were tenfold what they are at present, St. Paul in plain terms told his converts that if they liked to accept the invitations of their heathen friends and acquaintances, they... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: that aged men be temperate, grave, soberminded, sound in faith, in love, in patience, that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; that they ... |
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