...elucidates the declaration of John the Baptist : " There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose"...ordered my servant to get the horses ready, much against the will of my kind host and hostess, who strongly represented to me the danger of crossing the Yokul...

...fire, Matt. iii. 11. And ' preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose, Mark i. 7. John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water ; but onemightierthanl cometh...

...nevertheless this greatest of men said, ' There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.' (Mark i. 7.) of the heavenly hosts ? Unless therefore you can prove that Moses, Samuel, or some man approved of...

...reference in scripture. Thus " whose shoes I am not worthy to bear." Matt. iii. 11. and " the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose." Mark i. 7Also " If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's...

...nevertheless this greatest of men said : " There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose," Mark i, 7. I grant you, however, sir, that you will find in St. Mark some of the favourite expressions of your...

...baptist, in speaking of Christ : " Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear," Matt. iii. 11 ; " The latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose," Mark i. 7. The Baptist thought himself not worthy to do for Jesus that which was considered by the rabbins as...

...therefore, very plain. " Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear" (Matt. iii. 11), — "whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose" (Mark i. 7). —setting forth his own inferiority, when compared with the Messiah, which was so great, that he was...

...reference in scripture. Thus "whose shoes I am not worthy to bear." Matt. iii. 11. and " the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose." Mark i. 7. Also " If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's...

...LATCHET. John the Baptist, speaking of the coming of Our Lord, describes Him as one, " the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose." (Mark 1. 7-) The word rendered "latchet" is vTroBr]fj,a, which signifies properly "what is bound under" the...

...prepare, exclaimed in his preaching : " There cometh one mightier than I, after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose." (Mark i. 7.) As no stockings were worn, the feet became, of course, dusty and soiled ; it was common, therefore,...