The Wonders of God in the Wilderness: Or, The Lives of the Most Celebrated Saints of the Oriental Desarts; Faithfully Collected Out of the Genuine Works of the Holy Fathers, and Other Ancient Ecclesiastical WritersW. Needham, 1755 - 363 עמודים |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Wonders of God in the Wilderness: Or the Lives of the Most Celebrated ... <span dir=ltr>Richard Challoner</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2018 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 306 - Have mercy upon me, O God : according to Thy great mercy. 2 And according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies : blot out my iniquity. 3 Wash me yet more from my iniquity : and cleanse me from my sin. 4 For I acknowledge my iniquity: and my sin, is always before me.
עמוד 99 - If you be willing, and will hearken to Me, you shall eat the good things of the land. But if you will not, and will provoke Me to wrath: the sword shall devour you.
עמוד 335 - Obviously a faith which warned men against worldly goods ("Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world...
עמוד 132 - ... charged him to give nothing to those of Egypt, that country being rich and plentiful. Melania continued some time standing, and at length said : ' Father, do you know that here is three hundred pounds weight of silver ? ' The Abbot, without casting his eye upon the chest of silver, replied : ' Daughter, He to whom you made this offering very well knows how much it weighs without being told. If you give it to God, who did not despise the widow's two mites, and even preferred them to the great...
עמוד 30 - Thy servants, poor in spirit, of whom is the kingdom of heaven, where they found a book in which was written the life of Antony. This one of them began to read, marvel at, and be inflamed by it; and in the reading, to meditate on embracing such a life, and giving up his worldly employments to serve Thee. And these were of the body called Agents for Public Affairs. Then, suddenly being overwhelmed with a holy love and a sober sense...
עמוד 335 - And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience trial, and trial hope, and hope confoundeth not...
עמוד 99 - Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes : cease to do perversely, learn to do well : seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow. And then come and accuse me, saith the Lord : if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow : and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
עמוד iii - The Wonders of God in the Wilderness, or the Lives of the most celebrated Saints of the Oriental Deserts ; faithfully collected out of the genuine works of the holy Fathers and other ecclesiastical Writers.
עמוד 30 - ... but that the two latter, as they strayed, ran into a certain cottage where dwelt some of thy servants, poor in spirit, of such as whom is the kingdom of Heaven, and that they there found a book in which was written the Life of Anthony. Which, one of them began to read and to admire, and to be kindled, and while he was reading, to meditate upon the taking up such a life, and having left the secular warfare, living to thee. But he belonged to the class of those who are called "agentes in rebus".
עמוד 130 - ... in practice. This he did by keeping almost perpetual silence, and by weighing well, when it was necessary to speak, every word before he gave any answer. He often took several days to recommend consultations to God, and to consider what answer he should give to those who addressed themselves to him. By his perpetual attention not to offend in his words, he arrived at so great a perfection in this particular that he was thought to have equalled, if not to have excelled, St Antony himself; and...