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3861 The Present Truth, vol. 8 August 11, 1892, page 249 paragraph 6
… the church, the Lord has placed certain gifts in the church. “When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.” “When He ascended up …
3862 The Present Truth, vol. 8 August 11, 1892, page 249 paragraph 7
… the church the love of God, keeping the commandments of God, then all these gifts, working together with charity, build up the body of Christ, make increase of …
3863 The Present Truth, vol. 8 December 29, 1892, page 405 paragraph 2
… the church, and gave Himself for it.... So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own …
3864 The Present Truth, vol. 10 July 19, 1894, page 450 paragraph 5
… and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, together with His soul and divinity, which can never be separated from His body and blood.... The Catholic Church teaches …
3865 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 22, 1894, page 741 paragraph 1
… the church of Christ is described under the figure of the human body as God made it. The relationship between Christ and his church is shown and illustrated …
3866 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 22, 1894, page 741 paragraph 2
… His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30. Christ is, the head of this body, which is His church. For “He is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning …
3867 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 22, 1894, page 741 paragraph 7
… , the church of Christ is His body in this world, and He is its head. God is the builder of this body, the church of Christ, as He was the builder of the human body in …
3868 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 22, 1894, page 741 paragraph 8
… church of Christ—the Church of Rome is as destitute of it as is a human body with its own head cut off and another head put on in its place. Thus the Church of …
3869 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 22, 1894, page 742 paragraph 1
… that church in the first days of the church of Christ, and the same warning is yet given. In the second chapter of Colossians it is written: “Beware lest any man …
3870 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 22, 1894, page 742 paragraph 2
… the body of which Leo XIII., pope is the head. This is the Church of Rome with a man as its head, in the place of Christ. This is the Catholic Church. And this is how the …
3871 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 6, 1894, page 772 paragraph 6
… His churches, but of His Church. He does not say: “Upon this rock I will build My churches,” but “Upon this rock I will build My Church,” from which words we must conclude …
3872 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.”
3873 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 …
3874 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 …
3875 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 …
3876 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 …
3877 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 …
3878 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 …
3879 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 …
3880 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.