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40041 The Present Truth, vol. 7 September 10, 1891, page 298 paragraph 1

… a spiritual house.” 1 Peter 5:4, 5 .

40042 The Present Truth, vol. 7 September 10, 1891, page 298 paragraph 2

… a spiritual house, and this house is the church of the living God. Paul further speaks of it as God’s building. Speaking of himself and Apollos as ministers …

40043 The Present Truth, vol. 7 September 10, 1891, page 298 paragraph 5

… a spiritual house.” Now it is a characteristic of a living stone that it can be polished to such a height that it will reflect the image of the one looking upon …

40044 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 22, 1894, page 741 paragraph 8

… indeed spiritually dead, and have Christ, the life-giver, raise them from the dead, and connect them with himself as their living head, that thus they may live …

40045 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 6, 1894, page 772 paragraph 14

… or spirituality is concerned. To take away the true head of any body and put another head in the place of the true one, is to destroy the life of that body. Even …

40046 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 13, 1894, page 788 paragraph 2

… a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore it is also contained in the Scripture …

40047 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 13, 1894, page 788 paragraph 5

… this “spiritual house,” which is the church of the living God.

40048 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 13, 1894, page 789 paragraph 2

… , this “spiritual house,” which is the church of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. This is also the inspired testimony of the Apostle Paul. In other words, this …

40049 The Present Truth, vol. 11 May 30, 1895, page 341 paragraph 4

… the spiritual order awake interest and arouse study as well as the invisible things of the natural order? It may be answered that they do. Yes, that is true; but …

40050 The Present Truth, vol. 11 May 30, 1895, page 341 paragraph 5

… the spiritual in the natural way, to comprehend spiritual things with the natural faculties.

40051 The Present Truth, vol. 11 May 30, 1895, page 341 paragraph 6

… that “spiritual things are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-14. The truly spiritual things—the things of God—it is impossible truly to discern in any …

40052 The Present Truth, vol. 11 May 30, 1895, page 341 paragraph 8

… that spiritual things are only spiritually discerned; and although it be evident that it is by the Spirit of God alone that the things of God are known; yet …

40053 The Present Truth, vol. 11 June 20, 1895, page 390 paragraph 6

… and spiritual integrity was destroyed. Hypocrisy became a habit, dissimulation and fraud a necessity of life; and the very moral fiber of men and of society …

40054 The Present Truth, vol. 12 February 6, 1896, page 84 paragraph 1

Such is the order in the church of Christ, and as every Christian is God’s freeman and Christ’s servant, it follows, as has been well stated, that “monarchy in spiritual things does not harmonize with the spirit of Christianity.”

40055 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 7, 1897, page 6 paragraph 5

… in spiritual and eternal things, just as by eating the best of food, you live healthfully and strongly physically. Eat this bread of heaven as you eat the bread …

40056 The Present Truth, vol. 13 July 1, 1897, page 404 paragraph 7

… the spiritual office, and without any fitness for it whatever, now got themselves ordained as ecclesiastics, for the sake of enjoying this exemption, whereby …

40057 The Present Truth, vol. 13 July 8, 1897, page 420 paragraph 6

… the spiritual to the secular power, and which might easily result in the formation of a sacerdotal State, subordinating the secular to itself in a false and …

40058 The Present Truth, vol. 13 July 15, 1897, page 438 paragraph 8

It was by Augustine, then, that a theory was proposed and founded, which ... contained the germ of that whole system of spiritual despotism of intolerance and persecution which ended in the tribunals of the Inquisition.

40059 The Present Truth, vol. 13 August 5, 1897, page 484 paragraph 3

… her spiritual adviser. In response to her dying Constantine recalled Arius from banishment, and about the same time restored to favour the other two leading …

40060 The Present Truth, vol. 13 October 21, 1897, page 661 paragraph 3

… a spiritual dignity. The interested views, the selfish and angry passions, the arts of perfidy and dissimulation, the secret corruption, the open and even …