 | 1848 - 508 pàgines
...Jacob, as being not among the dead, but the living (Luke xx. 37, 38) ; and when St. Paul declares that " to be absent from the body " is to be " present with the Lord " (2 Cor. v. 8). Tertullian seems to speak the prevailing sentiments of the early church on this subject... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 1062 pàgines
...of once zealous professors, did not move Aim. As far as it is lawful, he courts death ; knowing that d New Testaments. See several examples in Whitby. Some MSS Glorious system of truth by which such an apostle was formed ! and glorious apostle by whom this system... | |
 | John BROWNE (Curate of Trinity Church, Cheltenham.) - 1836 - 520 pàgines
...and which now reconciles him to his removal. It is even this idea which makes death blessed, since "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." How much more glorious then must that event be which shall unite him to them for ever, where there... | |
 | 1836 - 240 pàgines
...state : and we are not only practically informed of the truth of the declaration of the Apostle, that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, hut also that to be present with Christ is to be made partaker with him in all the offices, which in... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Walker - 1839 - 372 pàgines
...the land of the living, and introduced to the immediate presence of Jesus. O, delightful thought ! to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord ; no longer to see through a glass darkly, but face to face ; no longer to know in part, but to know... | |
 | George Rogers - 1839 - 396 pàgines
...informed ; but 1 suppose the latter, as nothing is subsequently said of them. Again, Paul intimates that to be absent from the body, is to be " present with the Lord ;" it is, (he says,) to " be with Christ, which is far better :" and hence he conceived, that " to... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pàgines
...ready to depart in peace at the voice of their Beloved, because he has clearly revealed to them that to be " absent from the body," is to be " present with the Lord." And the experience they even now have of his love, assures them, " that in his presence is fulness... | |
 | New Church preacher - 1839 - 784 pàgines
...dissolution, with the delightful anticipation of the Apostle when he exclaims, " to die is gain," " to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord !" Such being the strong love of life existing xvith the Israelites, it pleased Jehovah to appeal to... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Walker - 1839 - 372 pàgines
...into the land of the living, and introduced to the immediate presence of Jesus. O, delightful thought! to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord; no longer to see through a glass darkly, but face to face; no longer to know in part, but to know even... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1840 - 488 pàgines
...seeing of that event, that it is indeed a great salvation to all who fall asleep in Jesus, for with them to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. When the verse is thus apprehended, it becomes a great and universal lesson, for Christians of all... | |
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to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. 
