| Matthew Henry - 1833 - 774 páginas
...For though none delighted more than he in preaching Christ and gospel-grace ; yet he knew that Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil ; and that though, through grace, we are not under the law as a covenant, yet we are under it as a... | |
| 1834 - 810 páginas
...prejudices of the Jew. Moreover, the religion of the New Testament is founded on that of the Old. Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ; not to repeal, but to establish them with higher sanctions and more powerful motives. Hence,... | |
| John Cooke (headmaster of the grammar sch. of k. Edw. vi, Birmingham.) - 1835 - 510 páginas
...God." How truly and how remarkably in this atoning sacrifice are the words of Christ fulfilled : " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them." He fulfilled the moral law, by the spotless innocence of his character ; he fulfilled the law... | |
| Ezra Stiles Ely, Abel Charles Thomas - 1835 - 300 páginas
...condemned the Scribes and Pharisees for having made void the law of God through their traditions. He came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil. The disciples, (to whom, and to whom only, the language in Mark ix. 43, et seq. was addressed) were... | |
| 1835 - 664 páginas
...with the greatest esteem and veneration, and to rich advantage. Our blessed Lord declared, that " he came not to destroy the law and the prophets; but to fulfil them." As he came to fulfil the law, and the predictions of the prophets, by his obedience and sufferings;... | |
| John Bainbridge Smith - 1836 - 654 páginas
...whilst the inspired Preacher of the Gospel proved the same great truth, and demonstrated that " Christ came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil." As then the Law and the Prophets were avowedly designed to introduce the Gospel, so they did, in fact,... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 480 páginas
...necessities of mankind. They retain all that is excellent in the Old Testament revelation ; for Christ came, not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, and to carry the scheme of religion there laid down to a still higher degree of excellency. Accordingly,... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1836 - 386 páginas
...many passages of scripture ; nay, I might say from the whole tenor of scripture on the subject. Christ came " not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." The corner stone of the Church is laid in Sion ; ie in the Jewish church. The privileges that had been... | |
| James M. Davis - 1837 - 308 páginas
...skies, and gave to Moses on Mount Sinai — that law which the Son of God alluded to when he said, I came not to destroy the law and the prophets* but to fulfil them — that law, the divine summary of which is, " thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy... | |
| Edward Stopford (bp. of Meath.) - 1837 - 282 páginas
...fulfilled state ? For we must recollect, that it was after he had established that principle, — that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, — that he affirmed that both law and prophets hung upon the commandments. In connexion with... | |
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