 | Charles Christian Hennell - 1841 - 568 pages
...he obtained it from some one of the other sources which supplied him with materials. Luke xii. 49, " I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled ? 50. But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished! 51.... | |
 | Joshua William Brooks - 1841 - 364 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... | |
 | Alexander Robert Charles Dallas - 1841 - 502 pages
...Hear what Jesus himself says, and how He explains this separating, trying fire, in the 49th verse —" 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! Suppose... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1843 - 472 pages
...needlessly qualifying truth. How broadly and boldly did he state it — in what paradoxes sometimes ! " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled?" "I came not to send peace, but a sword." How unlike was his manner in this respect to a certain cautious... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1842 - 432 pages
...frequent sacrifice of life ; how did our Master avow, while he contemplated, these extremities ! " 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 baptised with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." Fearlessly... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1842 - 384 pages
...him shall be much required; and to whom men have 49 committed much, of him they will ask the more. 1 am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kin50 died ? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I 51 straitened till it be accomplished!... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 pages
...needlessly qualifying truth. How broadly and boldly did he state it — in what paradoxes sometimes ! " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be already kindled ?" " I came not to send peace, but a sword." How unlike was his manner in this respect to a certain... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1843 - 820 pages
...people must take this time of grace, because it is a fearful thing to die without reconciliation. 49 ^[ *I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled ? 50 But ' I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I ' straitened till it be accomplished... | |
 | William John Hall - 1843 - 424 pages
...given up to a punishing fire, for the benefit of the soul, according to the saying of the Lord : ' I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled ?' " On the next clause, " The people shall be as the fuel of the fire," he adds, " This is not a threat... | |
 | 1843 - 520 pages
...needlessly qualifying truth. How broadly and boldly did he state it — in what paradoxes sometimes ! " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be already kindled ?" " I came not to send peace, but a sword." How unlike was his manner in this respect to a certain... | |
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I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 
