 Hearken, my dearest brethren ; hath not. God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him ? 6 But you have .dishonoured the poor man.  Lives of eminent Christians - Сторінка 246автори: Richard Brindley Hone - 1833Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 1871 - 792 стор.
...Christians. N For the most part they belonged to the poor of this world, and yet they were rich in faith, aud heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him. To superficial observers they appeared of all men most miserable, yet none were so happy as they, for... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1845 - 452 стор.
...own its power with thankfulness and joy, when we see "the poor of this world made rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him ; and the wise and great bowing at the name of Jesus, and "opening their treasures " of science or... | |
 | International society for the evangelization of the Jews - 1846 - 738 стор.
...evidently refers to a spiritual kingdom, when he represents the poor of this world, when rich in faith, as heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him. Peter congratulates Christians as possessed of the peculiar privileges promised to Israel in Exodus... | |
 | 1846 - 660 стор.
...dictated his assertion. True, compared with some, she was poor; but she was rich in faith, and an heir of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him. True, she had not a single foot of ground that she could call her own, but she possessed property in... | |
 | Picture room - 1847 - 122 стор.
...in heaven. This makes them happy. Though they are poor in this world, they are " rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him," Jas. ii. 5. And if sometimes the thought crosses their minds that they have but little in this world,... | |
 | Robert Shaw (of Whitburn.) - 1847 - 372 стор.
...things, according to their several abilities and opportunities. Not a few who are " rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him," are poor in this world. James ii. 5. Their Christian brethren, who have "this world's good," ought... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1847 - 426 стор.
...trampled on the poor, and the meanness which truckled to the rich, although* amongst the poor were " the heirs of the " kingdom which God hath promised to them that " love Him," and amongst the rich were those who P Such as Babylonia (Milman, ii. 186) and Galilee, (ii. 262; Joseph.... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - 1847 - 476 стор.
...many noble are called." No, they rather find them amongst " the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him." They rather find them amongst the humble, and too often despised, in every rank : yea, sometimes like... | |
 | Catholic poor-school committee - 698 стор.
...dearest brethren," exclaims St. James, " hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love Him ?"• They are, with us, co-heirs and brethren of Christ our Lord ; He has placed them in our hands... | |
 | James Foote - 1849 - 698 стор.
...silver." They are rich indeed who, though they may be poor in this world, are " rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him." Now, when our Lord says, If ye have not been faithful in the management of worldly property, who will... | |
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