Gregory the GreatSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1892 - 207 pages |
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Page 182 - But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want ; that there may be equality : 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
Page 42 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 178 - His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Page 99 - I for these alone, but those also which shall believe on me through their word ; that they all may be one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they all may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Page 84 - Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man : but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 206 - Papacy ; and of the mediaeval Papacy the real father is Gregory the Great. In all his predecessors there was much of the uncertainty and indefiniteness of a new dominion.
Page 135 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 182 - Redemption ; who livest and reignest with the FATHER, in the unity of the HOLY SPIRIT, GOD, for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 164 - Ah, Lord God' behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child." But the Lord said unto me, "Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Gregory the Great ATLA Historical Monographs Collection Series 1 ATLA monograph preservation program Fathers for English readers |
| Author | James Barmby |
| Contributor | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1892 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Apr 2007 |
| ISBN | 0837078423, 9780837078427 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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