...seem to think that he would deliver homilies of a severer character ; would rate men roundly about total depravity, and tell of unconditional election,...and the prophets ; yea, he hath a devil, and is mad, wThy hear him ? " The Sadducees complained that " he stirred up the people ; " so he did. The Essenes,...

...would ye hear it again? Will ye also be His disciples ? ' On this they reviled Him, and said they knew Moses, * but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is ! ' On which the man answered crushingly, 'Why herein is a marvellous thing! That ye know not whence...

...CHURCH. 205 it attain ? Will ye also be His disciples ? ' On this they reviled him, and said they knew Moses, ' but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is ! ' On which the man answered crushingly, ' Why herein is a marvellous thing ! That ye know not whence...

...world which indeed had had a God once but had one no longer. " We know," they said, " that God spake by Moses, but as for this fellow we know not whence he is." It was the instinct of that conventional piety which is practical atheism that raged against his affirmation,...

...them to the quick, and they answered with>scorn, "Thou art His disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow we know not from whence he is." "Why," rejoined tibe man, suddenly transformed into a theologian, "W&y, herein...

...disciples ? " They said, " Thou art His disciple ; we are Moses' disciples. We know that God spake to Moses, but as for this fellow we know not whence He is." You will now see how wisely the poor man answered them. He said, " Why herein is a marvellous thing,...

...seem to think that he would deliver homilies of a severer character ; would rate men roundly about total depravity, and tell of unconditional election,...prophets ; yea, he hath a devil, and is mad, why hear him f " The Sadducees complained that " he stirred up the people ; " so he did. The Essenes, no doubt,...

...day, — the Jews said of Him, ' ' This man is not of God, because He keepeth not the Sabbath day, we know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not from whence He is." — St. John iX. And regarding the fiend-like cruelty of torturing children throughout...

...and was exhibited in Jesus's time, when the unbelieving Pharisees exclaimed, "We know that God spoke unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is." The same has been exhibited in all ages of the world, upon the revelation of any new truth, in science,...

...thought it had been He which should have redeemed Israel! " By foes —" we know that God spake by Moses, but as for this fellow, we know not whence He is." By the indifferent—" am I a Jew ? thine own nation, and the chief priests have delivered Thee up...