This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...bow my knees The attitude of prayer, Luke xxii. 41; Acts vii. 60, ix. 40, xx. 36, xxi. 5. See too Rom. xiv. 11; Phil. ii. 10. The words, doubtless, do not impose a special bodily posture as a necessity in spiritual worship; physical conditions may make kneeling impossible, '/- Memoriam, at the end. of whom the whole ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...bow my knees The attitude of prayer, Luke xxii. 41; Acts vii. 60, ix. 40, xx. 36, xxi. 5. See too Rom. xiv. 11; Phil. ii. 10. The words, doubtless, do not impose a special bodily posture as a necessity in spiritual worship; physical conditions may make kneeling impossible, '/- Memoriam, at the end. of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 13 or undesirable, on occasion. But they do impose the spiritual attitude of which the bodily is type and expression; profound and submissive reverence, perfectly harmonious with the boldness and confidence of ver. 12. And so far as body and spirit work in concord, this recommends the corresponding bodily attitude where there is no distinct reason against it. the Father The words, of our Lord Jesus Christ are to be omitted. They appear in very ancient documents, including the Syriac and Latin versions. But the great Latin Father and critic, St Jerome (cent. 4--5), in his comment on this verse, expressly says that the Latin copies are in error; and the evidence of both Greek MSS. and patristic quotations preponderates for the omission. IB. of whom...is named Lit., out of Whom, &c. The derivation of the name is from His Fatherhood. the whole familv Gr., patria. It is difficult to preserve in English the point of the Gr. here. Father and family have no verbal kinship, while patlr and patria have. The whole fatherhood, or every fatherhood, would scarcely convey a clear idea. An interesting question of interpretation arises here. The Revisers render every familv, or (margin) every fatherhood''; and in this they have the concurrence of many commentators, modern and ancie...
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