...daily met with occurrences, which made me fear I should act in opposition to the precept of the Lord -They that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors : but ye shall not be so !' At court I have resembled Mordecai, and I did not always find it easy to make ministerial firmness...

...'Еуеято i¡ xa! «fiXcvtixi'ah аитпе, Tí, Tic aÙTwv ÎOXÉÎ' B?yai JUIÍ£UT. And there vial also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. VER. 25. 'O íí iTnriy <ÙTO~;- Oi iS.s-iXlîç TÍ» iSyJv XVfUÚOWtv aÙTÎV K-ù à ¡ÇtVfULÇmli...

...disciples to , admit of any such heathenish government. ' The ( kings of the Gentiles,' saith he, ' exercise lordship ' over them ; ' and they that 'exercise...but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the ¥>unger ; and he that is chief, as he that serveth.' he occasion of these his words, was the ambitious...

...authority, in the christian church, he would have conveyed the intentions of his mind, in expressions, by Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and they that...so, but he that is greatest among you, let him be as 4* which his meaning could not have been mistaken, and that the apostles would have mentioned this...

...his disciples to admit of any such heathenish government. 'The kings of the Gentiles,' saith he, ' exercise lordship over them ;' and they that ' exercise authority upon them are called benefactors; but yt shall not be so; but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief,...

...whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be " the servant of all." St. Luke, chap. xxii. ver. 24 : " And " there was also a strife among them, which of...they that exercise authority upon them, are called bene" factors. But ye shall not be so ; but he that is greatest " among you, let him be as the younger...

...corn-lending. Great part of the public revenue is paid in kind. See on Dent, xxiii. 20. • . Luke, xxii. 25. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise...exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. Benefactors.—A title assumed by the foreign masters, to soften the harshness of monarchical pretensions....

...LUKE, ix. 46 : Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest, do. xxii. 24: And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. 36 And he took a ° child, and set him in the midst...

...should be accounted the greatest. Lukexxii.». «And he said unto them, The kings of the <= Matt. *x. Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that...exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. Lukexxii.!». But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger;...

...disciples are joined together in an equality of brotherhood under Christ their Lord. " Luke xxii. 24. ' There was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.' Note, that tliis dispute was but the evening before the passion of Jesus Christ, after these words...