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3841 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 6, 1894, page 772 paragraph 8
Jesus Christ Himself is head of the church; for it is written: “I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ.” And, “Ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.” And He “is the head of the body, the church.”
3842 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 6, 1894, page 772 paragraph 13
His Church is compared to a human body. In one body there are many members, all inseparably connected with the head. The head commands and the foot instantly …
3843 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 6, 1894, page 772 paragraph 14
The church of Christ is the body of Christ, it is true. And Christ Himself is the head of this “His body, which is the church.” And to take away Christ, the true head …
3844 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 6, 1894, page 773 paragraph 4
… Christian church, is married to Christ—“to Him that is raised from the dead”— as long as He liveth. Therefore, for any Christian church to be joined to another husband …
3845 The Present Truth, vol. 12 March 26, 1896, page 196 paragraph 3
… Methodist Church in America, January 23, 1896. The editorial is on “Bleeding Armenia,” and after stating that there is “a small revolutionary body” operating …
3846 The Present Truth, vol. 12 March 26, 1896, page 196 paragraph 7
… a body from the Patriarch’s Church to the Porte to demand diet the Sultan should sign the propositions of the Powers. These “Armenians carried revolvers …
3847 The Present Truth, vol. 12 March 26, 1896, page 197 paragraph 6
… the churches, this also is not true. Of the armed body that left the Patriarch’s Church to compel the Sultan,” those of them that escaped did take refuge in the …
3848 The Present Truth, vol. 13 June 24, 1897, page 385 paragraph 1
… the church party. In return for this help he was to favour the churches. The worldly churches, bereft of the power of the Gospel, and ambitious for political …
3849 The Present Truth, vol. 13 June 24, 1897, page 386 paragraph 3
An edict issued at Milan had ordered that the church property confiscated by the edicts of Diocletian, should be, restored to “ the whole body of Christians ,” without any distinction as to particular sects or names.
3850 The Present Truth, vol. 13 June 24, 1897, page 387 paragraph 9
… the churches should be restored to the Christians—“the whole body of Christians”—without distinction. When the Catholic Church asserted its sole right to …
3851 The Present Truth, vol. 13 July 1, 1897, page 405 paragraph 2
… churches he bestowed “large sums for the support of the poor; so that the conversion of the heathen might be promoted by doing good to their bodies.” (Neander …
3852 The Present Truth, vol. 13 July 22, 1897, page 453 paragraph 1
… was in a political way. Its value for this purpose lay entirely in its unity. If the church should be all broken up and divided into separate bodies, its value …
3853 The Present Truth, vol. 13 August 5, 1897, page 485 paragraph 9
… the church. “The soldiers were obliged to hew their way through the dense and resisting crowd to the altar,” and over the dead bodies of three thousand one hundred …
3854 The Present Truth, vol. 13 August 19, 1897, page 516 paragraph 4
… of church parties. Over the bodies of slaughtered people he had seen bishops placed upon thrones of episcopal ambition. Such impressions forced upon his …
3855 The Present Truth, vol. 13 September 2, 1897, page 549 paragraph 9
… his body to be taken up; the honors of a Christian martyr were prostituted on this insolent ruffian, his panegyric was pronounced in the church, and he was named …
3856 The Present Truth, vol. 13 September 23, 1897, page 597 paragraph 4
… the church of the Virgin Mary at Ephesus, and was formally opened August 8, A.D. 449. Dioscorus, the president, was seated upon a high throne. Two imperial commissioners …
3857 The Present Truth, vol. 13 October 21, 1897, page 662 paragraph 8
… responsible body. This was shown in that saying of Constantine in which he represented himself as a “bishop of externals” of the church, that which pertained …
3858 The Present Truth, vol. 13 October 21, 1897, page 662 paragraph 12
… the church, was gone, As a distinct system of law and government, the State was destroyed; and its machinery existed only as the tool of the church to accomplish …
3859 The Present Truth, vol. 13 October 28, 1897, page 677 paragraph 9
… great body of ecclesiastics and the populace, and seized the Lateran Church, he was elected and consecrated bishop. Ursicinus was expelled from Rome.
3860 The Present Truth, vol. 13 October 28, 1897, page 677 paragraph 11
… Rome. Churches were garrisoned, churches besieged, churches stormed and deluged with blood. In one day, relates Ammianus, above one hundred and thirty dead …