...abfolute dependence on fuch extraordinary communications. Behold, fays he, I fend you forth as Jheef among wolves; be ye therefore wife as ferpents and harmlefs as doves, intimating that, notwithftanding their fpecial call and commifTion, and the extraordinary afiiftance...

...the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city. Behold I fend you forth as fheep in the midft of wolves. Be ye therefore wife as ferpents and harmlefs as doves. But beware of men ; for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will fcourge you in their fynagogues,...

...honeft, means. " If they perfecute you in this city, flee to another." " I fend you forth as flieep among, wolves ; be ye therefore wife as ferpents, and harmlefs as doves." He promifed them, that " if they fliould take up ferpents, or drink any deadly thing, they fhould not...

...refers us to the ferpent and the dove. " Behold," fays he to his difciples, " I fend you forth, as lambs among wolves : be ye therefore wife as ferpents, and harmlefs as doves." Our Lord, when he was on earth, would not commit himfelf to men ; for he knew what was in men. The...

...mankind. Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves : Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But mark me : I would not have you keep to this behaviour too long. What I direct now is only for twenty, or thirty, or a hundred, or two hundred years, according as you succeed...

...mankind. Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves: Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But mark me : I would not have you keep to this behaviour too long. What I direct now is only for twenty, or thirty, or a hundred, or two hundred years, according as you succeed...