 | Peter Cartwright - 1871 - 298 σελίδες
...to the deacon, " Get down ; you must be converted right here. Come, get down, or I'll pull you off: The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force ;" and I took hold of his horse. " Well," said he very deliberately, " do n't pull me off; if... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1873 - 362 σελίδες
...foam. Not less formidable sometimes are the last, the dying struggles of sin. What says our Lord ? " The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force ;" and it happens there as with a beleaguered city at the storming — the hardest fight is in... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1874 - 564 σελίδες
...if the world persecuted him, they will also persecute us :" and " from the days of John the Baptist, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force ;" not "the violent doers," but '-'the sufferers of violence:" for though the old law was established... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 σελίδες
...that this careless attitude of suspense or indifference between virtue and vice cannot continue long. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. Those who lack energy of goodness, and drop into a languid neutrality between the antagonist... | |
 | John Davies, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1878 - 356 σελίδες
...Wiched's most assured hope,5 Who Ancor it on transitorie Toyes; 1 Vcrtue's self-lone alone is Vertuous. 2 The kingdom of heaven suffers violence ; and the violent take it by force. Mat. ss. 1a. S The Hart conccaues two kindes of loy or Griefe. They feare the cracking of that... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1878 - 400 σελίδες
...hundred others like them, bring the whole inward struggle into plain view. It is a real conflict in which the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. We know of no other religious book, except the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress, that makes so deep... | |
 | 1882 - 596 σελίδες
...that this careless attitude of suspense or indifference between virtue and vice cannot continue long. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Those who lack energy of goodness, and drop into a languid neutrality between the antagonistic... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - 1882 - 616 σελίδες
...ecmv Yior Qeov, aireicpivaTO ' ftvoiro /MI tan TO /'"j/'--t trov. — Dial. 100. tist ; henceforward the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. And if ye will receive him, this is Elias who was to come. He that hath ears to hear let him... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 σελίδες
...the world persecuted him, they will also persecute us : " and " from the days of John the Baptist, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force ;" not ' the violent doers,' but ' the sufferers of violence ; ' for though the old law was established... | |
 | John Wesley, James Henry Potts - 1891 - 568 σελίδες
...taking up of your cross daily, the enduring "hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." Remember, "the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force." This is the way; walk therein; think not of a smoother path. Add to your other exercises constant... | |
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And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. 
