| Henry Mackenzie - 1836 - 216 sidor
...life. " I will detain you ho longer. I have only left me to entreat you to be lenient. Do not forget that ' There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' "GEORGE SHENSTONE." CHAPTER IX. *If you would learn Death's character attend.... | |
| Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 414 sidor
...ancestors had been stigmatized as men of suspicious allegiance? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons ?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the... | |
| sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1836 - 394 sidor
...ancestors had been stigmatized as men of suspicious allegiance ? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the... | |
| Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 412 sidor
...ancestors had been stigmatized as men of suspicious allegiance? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons ?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the... | |
| Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 590 sidor
...ancestors had been stigmatized as men of suspicious allegiance ? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the... | |
| 1904 - 510 sidor
...repentant heart in the sweat of his sober brow. The holy book gives us to understand that Jesus declared that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance; but that does not intimate that the sinner has more joy than the ninety and... | |
| 1996 - 452 sidor
...all countries, especially as there is apparently a large premium offered to sinners. Christ says, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance" (Luke xv. 7). No wonder that sin abounds in all Christian countries ; and it... | |
| 1825 - 856 sidor
...stifle their reason, and blindly to pay implicit obedience to the Priest : and, that " there wil1 le more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety tend nine just persons that need no repentance !" I challenge the world, to produce one sentence half... | |
| Bernard Barc - 1981 - 480 sidor
...slightly modified the text of Q (known from Mt. 1 8, 1 3) to the effect that in heaven there is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance (15,7). 24 When we translate Ez. 34,16 with "I will preserve", then we follow... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 sidor
...application is made by the Saviour in this parable, thus, "Verily, I say unto you, there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." [Cheering.] And now, if the Judge claims the benefit of this parable, let... | |
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