 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pages
...felt ; and yet submitted. With strong cryings and tears he prayed, " Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me : nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done." But what allows of excuse, truth does not require us to commend. It was his infirmity that induced David... | |
 | George Croly - 1834 - 666 pages
...remains; and where Adam was all horror and remorse, Christ mingles with his agony obedience. " Let this cup pass from me ; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done." But the sentence is to be passed on Adam ; and not on him alone, but on Eve, and on the serpent. Again, the... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...he was called to endure was to him a matter of indifference. Father, he said, if it be possible let this cup pass from me ; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. But why need we longer dwell upon a subject, which has furnished a theme of glowing panegyric to the sceptic,... | |
 | 1843 - 744 pages
...such an epitaph would probably represent his hero praying in his pangs, not " If it be possible let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not my will but thine be done," but Qi 1f ot/3', uitoKTf.vovoi f;.' at KvvwirtSif t, ci'lpuv It pun, Stwal Otal. t One can better sympathize,... | |
 | 1844 - 562 pages
...pressure of the conflict, " being in an agony he prayed more earnestly, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me ; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done." But, my brethren, this was impracticable. It was an event in which the honour of Deity was implicated, and... | |
 | William Henry Furness - 1853 - 338 pages
...prostrate on the earth, and his disciples overheard him say : ' 0 my Father ! if it be possible, let this cup pass from me ; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done :' but they, overcome by excitement and fatigue, soon fell asleep. He returned to them, and found them sleeping,... | |
 | William Jay - 1856 - 688 pages
...deeply, and yet submitted. With strong cryings and tears he prayed, " Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me : nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done." But what allows of excuse, truth docs not require us to commend. It was his infirmity that induced David... | |
 | John Richardson Phillips - 1876 - 418 pages
...Hence His love to man leads Him more and more earnestly to pray : " Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me ; nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done." But it was the Father's will that He should die not an ordinary or even extraordinary death, but that He... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 704 pages
...were, sank under the vision that rose before it, " 0 my Father," He cried, " if it be possible, let this cup pass from me : nevertheless, not my will, but Thine, be done." But as long as there was a struggle of the frail human nature, and a cry, however reverent and lowly, for... | |
 | James Large - 1879 - 504 pages
...victory, are only obscurely hinted to us by the thrice repeated prayer, " Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me — nevertheless not My will but Thine be done." — But the third great crisis of the battle was On the Cross; where, by death, He destroyed him that had the power... | |
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But what allows of excuse, truth does not require us to commend. It was his infirmity that induced David to long for death, to hasten his escape from the stormy wind and tempest ; and an old writer tells us it would have been more... 
