Search for: Choice
2741 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book III, p. 427.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of either those nearest and dearest, of ease, nay, of life itself, or else of Christ, there could be no compromise. Not that, as is sometimes erroneously …
2742 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book III, p. 462.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… voluntary choice, the fare of the Lord and of His followers was the poorest. Indeed, barley-bread was, almost proverbially, the meanest. Hence, as the Mishnah …
2743 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book III, p. 507.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… believing choice and by determination of conviction, would come, should in no wise be rejected of Him.We are here involuntarily reminded of the fate of Elijah …
2744 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book III, p. 510.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of words: Literally, “were satisfied with food as animals with fodder.”’—ecortasqhte. Shabb. 30 b; Jer. Sheqal. vi. 2. Kethub. 111 b .
2745 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book III, p. 575.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice would suggest. Perhaps it might be expressed in this somewhat clumsy paraphrase: Thou art Peter (Petros)—a Stone or Rock—and upon this—Petra----the …
2746 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book III, p. 576.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… made choice of him, that, through his mouth, the Gentiles should first hear the words of the Gospel, and at his bidding first be baptized. Those who apply the words …
2747 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book IV, p. 63.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… free choice and deliberate resolution. Thus, in the allegorism of the Midrash, in the inscription, Proverbs 30:1, concerning Agur, the son of Jakeh’—which is viewed …
2748 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book IV, p. 117.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… deliberate choice: therefore their sin—not their blindness only—remained! ver. 41 .
2749 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book IV, p. 198.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , free choice of the individual. He does not stray; he does not fall aside—he wilfully departs, and under aggravated circumstances. It is the younger of two sons …
2750 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book IV, p. 275.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of language, which is peculiarly difficult, but because its difficulty springs from the yet greater difficulty of expressing what it is intended …
2751 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 33.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice. And he also—such was the ignorance of the Apostles of the inmost meaning of their Master—dared not go directly to Jesus, but went to his own townsman …
2752 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 80.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice for the feast are not identical. The call comes to all; but it may outwardly accepted, and a man may sit down to the feast, and yet he may not be chosen …
2753 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 80.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… God’s choice. The connecting-link between them is the taking of the wedding-garment, freely given in the Palace. Yet, we must seek it, ask it, put it on. And so here …
2754 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 166.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of His Human actions. So only could He, as perfect Man, have perfectly obeyed the Divine Law. For, if the Divine had determined Him in the choice of His …
2755 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 177.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of this word may teach us something—yet they were all in that one House. Could they not trust Him in this? Surely, if it had been otherwise, He would have …
2756 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 188.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… very choice on His part, and their union of love in Him and to one another, also implied not only separation from, but repudiation by, the world. For this they must …
2757 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 280.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… a choice garden: in Ecclesiastes 2:5; Cant. iv. 13; Nehem. 2:8. But in the LXX. and the Apocr. the word is already used in our sense of Paradise. Lastly, nothing which our …
2758 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Book V, p. 339.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… marked choice of a different word to express his affection from that which the Saviour had used, he replied, appealing rather to his Lord’s, than to his own …
2759 The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah—Appendix, p. 213.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… and choice. To quarrel with this limitation of our sphere of reasoning, were to rebel against the conditions of human existence. But if so, then the question …
2760 Luther on Galatians, p. iii.8 (Martin Luther)
“And what book would be your choice?”