| Robert Porten Beachcroft - 1840 - 394 pages
...religion saying, Not one jot, nor one tittle, shall pass from the law, but all shall be fulfilled. " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." And we pray, after having repeated these commandments, " Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our... | |
| 1875 - 492 pages
...one strong, passionate, and God-inspired yearning of the Hebrew mind is for righteousness. Now Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil ; and so we meet with the same figure all through the New Testament. The goal of life is not changed... | |
| Jean François Salvard, Peter Hall - 1842 - 710 pages
...fulness. Yet we do not therefore disdain or reject the law. We remember the words of the Lord, saying, "I came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them." Matt. v. 17. We know that in the lawf are described unto us the kinds of virtues and vices. We know... | |
| Caroline Fry Wilson - 1842 - 286 pages
...be enjoyed by a renewed and recovered people, walking in the power and in the footsteps of Him who came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them;—who died, not to release mankind from painful submission to a hard, injurious rule, but to... | |
| William James E. Bennett - 1843 - 420 pages
...by our blessed Lord Jesus Christ. Remember that our Lord Himself says, that He came into the world not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. But I am prepared to show you that there is a great deal more than this. You will see in the Gospel... | |
| John Overall (evêque de Norwich) - 1844 - 354 pages
...reprove all sins and offences committed against the Ten Commandments. Christ testifieth of Himself, that He ' came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them.' By His death He hath Mat. 5. 17. delivered us from the curse of the law, but not from the obedience... | |
| 1844 - 806 pages
...authority as any other precept of the decalogue : Christ has not annulled it, for he declares, " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them." It may be argued, however, that if we insist upon the observance of the Sabbath, on the ground of Old... | |
| 1848 - 660 pages
...Testament, and therefore it remains in full force at the present day ; besides, Jesus Christ declared, " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." How then could he teach that certain enactments of the law were cruel or barbarous, and, therefore,... | |
| 1833 - 566 pages
...sufficiently taught and enforced by Moses, and by other legislators and moralists. And so far, he declared that he came not " to destroy the law and the prophets," but rather to build up and extend their doctrine; because he that is willing to do more than justice, must... | |
| David Friedrich Strauss - 1846 - 480 pages
...harangues. At v. 17 ff. follows the transition to the main subject of the sermon ; the assurance of Jesus that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil, &c. Now as Jesus herein plainly presupposes that he is himself the Messiah, to whom was ascribed authority... | |
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