 | Thomas Adam - 1837 - 564 pages
...have known, and would not. SECTION XLIV. Chap. xii ver. 49—59. THE UUTY OF BEING ADMONISHED. 49. I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled ? The fire of purification by the Holy Ghost: or of division, according to what follows. " And what... | |
 | Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - 1838 - 392 pages
...descent of the Holy Ghost was in fiery tongues ; concerning which the Lord Luke 12, says joyfully, / am come to send fire on the earth; and. what will I, if it be already kindled? (5.) 9. This Holy Ghost descended on the Lord at His baptism, that the dignity of Him who was baptized... | |
 | Robert Sandeman - 1838 - 534 pages
...thy seed and her seed." In the same view we must understand these words of Jesus, " I am come to set fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled 1 Suppose, ye, that I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell you, nay, but rather division. From henceforth,... | |
 | Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - 1838 - 370 pages
...Ghost was in fiery tongues ; concerning which the Lord Luke 12, says joy fully, / am come to send Jire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? (5-) 9. This Holy Ghost descended on the Lord at His baptism, that the dignity of Him who was baptized... | |
 | William Alexander - 1839 - 434 pages
...mind, would be the effects of His manifestation in the body prepared of the Father, Jesus says : " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled." " But," said He, " I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened," or as in the margin,... | |
 | Joseph Wolff - 1839 - 434 pages
...texts, the renovation of the earth, which shall be purified by fire; citing for this, Luke xii. 49, " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be already kindled ?" What I invariably observe to be the case with mystical philosophers is, that they are averse to... | |
 | Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - 1839 - 410 pages
...descent of the Holy Ghost was in fiery tongues; concerning which the Lord Luke 12, says joyfully, / am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? (5.) 9. This Holy Ghost descended on the Lord at His baptism, that the dignity of Him who was baptized... | |
 | James P. Miller - 1839 - 536 pages
...of men, fighting against the kingdom of Christ. He has forewarned us of these. I am come, says he, to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled? Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell you, nay, but rather division-. The preaching... | |
 | 1839 - 596 pages
...truth triumphant in the very places where the greatest opposition was made to it. Luke xii. 49. " 1 am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I it it be already kindled ?" The fire of persecution can only blaze by God's will, whenever the truth... | |
 | 1841 - 484 pages
...equal conclusiveness, to be used in the figurative sense. For instance, in Luke xii. 49, Jesus says, "I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled? But I have a. baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." The parallel... | |
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I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 
