 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 948 pages
...ART. XXV. and to do of his good pleasure. Let us therefore attend to what is written : When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you,...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. In the mean time we do not deny that God rewards good works, but it is through his grace... | |
 | James Ussher - 1625 - 642 pages
...Christians. The lesson which our Saviour taught his disciples, is far different from this: " When 3 ye have done all those things which are commanded...unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do." And " if b he be unprofitable," saith St. Hierome, " who hath done all, what is to be... | |
 | Grégoire Girard (originally Jean Baptiste Melchior Gaspard Balthazar) - 1747 - 314 pages
...those words of our blessed Lord, " When ye shall have done all those things which * 1 Cor. iv. 7. are commanded you, say, we are unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do*." Children are also tempted to compare themselves among themselves; and they do not select... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...servants; Which do but what they should, by doing every thing. — ] From Scripture : " So when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which it was our duty to do." HENLEY. 284. Which do but what they should, by doing every... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...xxxvi. 32. To which I will only add that of our Saviour: " So likewise ye, when ye have done all th6se things which are .commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants ; we have done that which was our duty to do/' Luke xvii. 10. In the scriptures new quotetf it is most plain and con47 spicuous to any... | |
 | 1821 - 530 pages
...still our Lord cautions us against attaching an undue influence to them. " When," says he, " ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants ; we have done that which it was our duty to do." (Luke, xvii. 10.) David felt that his best performances... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...were commanded him? I trow not. 10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which 'dre commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. 1 1 H And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of... | |
 | 1803 - 818 pages
...applied the preceding parable to the case of his disciples; " so likewise ye, when ye shall have denn.all those things which are commanded you, say, we are...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duly to do." This is a point which must be settled on scriptural grounds, and not with a view to consequences.... | |
 | Thomas Thirlwall - 1803 - 324 pages
...because " he did the things that were commanded " him ? I trow not." So likewise ye, when ye " shall have done all those things which are " commanded you, say, We are unprofitable " servants : c we have done that which was our " duty to do. 95. The Samaritans will not receive Jesus.... | |
 | William Mason - 1803 - 402 pages
...liberty of the sons of God. " Ye are not under the law but under grace." •...Rom. vi. 14. When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say we are unprofitable servants: tve hare done that ichich was our duly to do. ...Luke xvii. 10. THIS is a fatal stab to human... | |
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So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. 
