Ephesians 4:10–16. ↩
1 Corinthians 12:27. ↩
Colossians 1:24. ↩
1 Corinthians 10:17. ↩
Another reading is, “Head over all the Church.” ↩
Ephesians 1:22, 23. ↩
Psalm 112:1. ↩
Luke 12:7. ↩
Matthew 13:43. ↩
Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes I. 27. ↩
1 Corinthians 3:1. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:44. ↩
Psalm 26:8. ↩
Ecclesiasticus 30:12. ↩
Galatians 5:17. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:57. ↩
Romans 8:37. ↩
Matthew 6:12. ↩
Genesis 1:28. ↩
John 5:17. ↩
Psalm 49:20. ↩
1 Corinthians 3:7. ↩
Coaptatio, a word coined by Augustine, and used by him again in the De Trinitate IV. 2. ↩
Psalm 104:1. ↩
He apparently has in view the celebrated passage in the opening of the second book of Lucretius. The uses made of this passage are referred to by Lecky, History of European Morals, I. 74. ↩
Romans 8:32. ↩
Vide Book XVIII. ch. 53. ↩
Virgil Aeneid VI. 751. ↩
In the Republic, X. ↩
Philippians 4:7. ↩
1 Corinthians 13:9, 10. ↩
1 Corinthians 13:12. ↩
Matthew 18:10. ↩
1 John 3:2. ↩
Psalm 116:10. ↩
1 Corinthians 13:11, 12. ↩
2 Kings 5:26. ↩
Jeremiah 23:24. ↩
Job 42:5, 6. ↩
Ephesians 1:18. ↩
Matthew 5:8. ↩
Luke 3:6. ↩
Luke 2:29, 30. ↩
Job 19:26. ↩
1 Corinthians 13:12. ↩
2 Corinthians 3:18. ↩
Psalm 34:5. ↩
Wisdom 9:14. ↩
Romans 1:20. ↩
1 Corinthians 4:5. ↩
Psalm 84:4. ↩
Numbers. ↩
Leviticus 26:12. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:28. ↩
Or, the former to a state of probation, the latter to a state of reward. ↩
Psalm 46:10. ↩
Genesis 2:2, 3. ↩
Genesis 3:5. ↩
Deuteronomy 5:14. ↩
Ezekiel 20:12. ↩
Acts 1:7. ↩
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