Christian who had betrayed the Lord, even as Judas did, and had gone over to Satan. For her part, she wished that the first-discovered witch had been a member of a godly English household, that it might be seen of all men that religious folk were willing... Right at Last: And Other Tales - Página 180por Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1860 - 305 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Freeman Clarke - 1909 - 264 páginas
...optimism in the sense of ignoring evil. Evil was to him something so real and terrible that it were better to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye, than yield to it. He teaches us to ask every day that we shall not be led into temptation, but delivered... | |
| Sibyl Marvin Huse - 1922 - 688 páginas
...tenderness, and this will heal the wounded sense that seems to obtain alter truth has wielded its sword to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye. This tenderness is the other edge of the two edged sword which guards the gate to understanding. You... | |
| 1873 - 526 páginas
...I am afraid that the same objection might be made to any manner of obedience to our Lord's command to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye if they offend us ; and if to this it be replied, that stimulants do not offend us, is it not enough to... | |
| J. C. Ryle - 2001 - 236 páginas
...grave. Cold must our hearts be if we do not hate sin and labour to get rid of it, though we may have to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye in doing it. (e) We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we are true children... | |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, John Chapple - 2006 - 548 páginas
...that witches should perish off the face of the earth, Indian or English, heathen or, worse, a baptised Christian who had betrayed the Lord, even as Judas...to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye,129 if tainted with the devilish sin. She spoke sternly and well. The last comer said that her... | |
| Alice Peloubet Norton - 1899 - 374 páginas
...appeal." — Barry. 5. Mortify, Or., /a/ to death, your members. " Perhaps suggested by our Lord's command to ' cut off the right hand ' and ' pluck out the right eye ' if they cause us to offend (Matt. 5: 29, 30)." — Barry. The word " members " is typical, and expresses... | |
| John Charles Ryle - 1859 - 68 páginas
...dread sacrifices, and shrink from self-denial. They never appear able to apply our Lord's command, " to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye." Matt. v. 29, 30. They spend their lives in trying to make the gate more wide, and the cross more light.... | |
| 1891 - 630 páginas
...In the injunctions " physician heal thyself," " first cast out the beam out of thine own eye " and to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye of personal sense, — individual demonstration of the Truth of being, as the only healing and the... | |
| 1899 - 846 páginas
...to the life of sense. But this command is no more to be taken literally than the command of our Lord to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye. Our members which are upon the earth, literally speaking, might begin with hands, and feet, and tongues,... | |
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