 | 1847 - 390 pagina’s
...natural fervour of the apostle. " My brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." " Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." Self-love was lost in the love of the brethren ; he sought not his own, but his Master's glory. " Who... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1824 - 448 pagina’s
...the conversion of many of whom he had been directly instrumental, he seems to be all love. "So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us — But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, endeavored... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pagina’s
...apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: 8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 660 pagina’s
...respectfully inscribed, By the AUTHOR. ON THE DEATH OF DR. CONYERS. THESSALONIANS, ii. 8. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. AN active, undaunted zeal in the service of God, and a peculiar tenderness of affection towards his... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pagina’s
...Thessalonians, " We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : so, being affeclionalely desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted...also, our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." 1 Thess. ii 7, 8. — Such a spirit, also, Paul shows to be essential when he says to Timothy, "The... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 748 pagina’s
...example of the apostles, were equally desirous to imitate him in the use of it.) He then adds, " So being affectionately desirous of you, we were "willing to...only, but also our own souls, because " ye were dear to us." No comment can do justice to the spirit of this sentiment, or to the force of the expression,... | |
 | Charles Richard Sumner - 1824 - 474 pagina’s
...prominently insisted on. God is witness, that being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart unto you not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. Ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, that... | |
 | Isaiah Birt - 1824 - 106 pagina’s
...language of the apostle — "Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us."t Infidels may be gratified to obtain the venerable Doctor Hawker as an auxiliary, in holding up... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 570 pagina’s
...pleasing men, but God who trieth their hearts.' And ' being affectionately desirous of you,' he was ' willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also his own soul, because ye were dear unto him.' And, I may add, ' ye are witnesses, and God also, how... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pagina’s
...sought we glory, &c. but we were gentle among you, even as a nurse clierishcth her children ; so being affectionately desirous of you; we were willing to have imparted unto you, &c. labouring z OF THE GOSPEL, &C. night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you,... | |
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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 
