| William Ward - 1817 - 366 pàgines
...rich Hindoos have a room on the top of the house, in which they perform worship daily. Acts xiv. 11. ' The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.' Innumerable accounts are to be found in the Hindoo pooranus, of the descent of Brumha, Vishnoo, Shivu,... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 456 pàgines
...when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and PaulMercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest... | |
| 1817 - 610 pàgines
...wrought by Paul upon the impotent man, they "lifted up their voices, saying, in the speech of Lycaonia, the Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest... | |
| 1829 - 828 pàgines
...wrought by St. Paul at Lystra produced no conversion : it was interpreted upon heathen principles — " the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." In this case the apostles were necessitated to remonstrate ; yet how little their remonstrance availed,... | |
| William Johnson Fox - 1819 - 344 pàgines
...phraseology, be of course a god. When Paul aud Barnabas wrought a miracle at Lystra, the people said, " The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." They would have formed a similar opinion of Christ, had they seen or heard of him ; and where apostolic... | |
| Johnson Grant - 1820 - 638 pàgines
...enraptured heathens who, when they heard the words of truth from the lips of inspiration, exclaimed, ' the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men ;' to him, however, the statement was inverted : the speaker seemed to have wrapped himself in the... | |
| James Inglis - 1820 - 406 pàgines
...how different their decisions, as circumstances differ, on the'character and conduct t>f each other! "The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men,"* said the Lycannians, full of admiration at the eloquence and miraculous powers of Paul and Barnabas.... | |
| John Jones - 1820 - 238 pàgines
...when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." If Christ had been the author of this miracle, the people of Lystra would doubtless have said the same... | |
| Henry Aldrich - 1821 - 300 pàgines
...religion. The Lycaonians at Lystra were guilty of a false judgment, when they said of Paul and Barnabas, The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. So also were the Pharisees, when they said of our blessed Lord, We know that thit man is a sinner.... | |
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