...reception. The argument urged in the text would have concluded against this with equal and superior force : The son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. You see then, how properly these words may be used, to introduce a discourse against persecution...

...reception. The argument urged in the text would have concluded against this with equal and superior force: The son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. You see then, how properly these words may be used, to introduce a discourse against persecution...

...disciples when they wished him to bring down fire from heaven to destroy the Samaritans ; " Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of : The Son of Man came riot to destroy men's lives, but to save them." Nor would he account the words, which he directed to...

...consume a city, which believed not in his doctrines ; all the rebuke he administered was, " Ye know not " what manner of spirit ye are of; the Son of Man " came not to destroy mens lives, but to save them." When he suffered his agony in the garden, in the hour and in the power...

...mockery or a sin to make them our copies. Elias is no fit pattern for disciples, but their Master : The Son of Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. Then are our actions and intentions warrantable and praise-worthy, when they accord with...

...his name, with what meekness did he reprove their fault, and correct their mistake ? " Ye " know not what manner of spirit ye are of; " the son of man came not to destroy men's " lives, but to save them." Though he came to his own, and his own received him not, he was not angry and exasperated...

...such things ? Are these the fruits of love ? Is it thus we do as we would wish to be done by ? Surely the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. Thus much for the present. I commend you to the care and blessing of the Lord ; and with...

...imprecation. See 1 Sam. iv. 7, 8. Jer. iv. J3. vi. 4. Lam. v. 16. both in the Sep. and in the KT In fine, as the Son of Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them; he came not to curse, but to bless us, by turning away every one of us from his iniquities....

...refused him admittance into their city, what was then the doctrine which he taught ? Ye know not what spirit ye are of ; the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And again, if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not, for I came not to...

...solicited to command Are from heaven for the destruction of a Samaritan village. " Ye know not," said he, " what manner of spirit " ye are of." The Son of Man came not to inspire men with principles of malevolence, cruelty, and revenge ; hut to fill the human bosom with...