 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 392 pages
...world that God was with them in what they said and did ? With respect to this evidence St. John says, ' If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. 'ยง Add to this, that the Apostles had a power to communicate these gifts to believers. Can you wonder... | |
 | Charles James Blomfield (bp. of London.) - 1832 - 502 pages
...testimony of the written word of God? Such seems to be the reasoning of St. John, when he observes, If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater : for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son... | |
 | Archibald Hall - 1831 - 472 pages
...every other promise made by men ; but the activity of the mind in receiving both is the same : for, " if we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater," though the act of receiving both is the same.* (3.) The appropriation of faith does not arise from... | |
 | William Tyndale - 1831 - 494 pages
...xii. ing, Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's pleasure 1 John v. to give you a kingdom. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater, for this is the witness which he testified of his Son. He that believeth in the Son of God, hath the... | |
 | Carolyn J. Baker - 2003 - 365 pages
...that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one, If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: . . . Revelations 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, Who is the faithful Witness, and the First Begotten of... | |
 | John Christopher Thomas - 2003 - 310 pages
...witnessed concerning me' (5.34, 37). It is likely that when the readers of 1 Jn 5.9 encounter the phrase, 'If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater', they would understand this contrast in light of the contrast between the man John (who was 'sent by... | |
 | James Shane - 2003 - 354 pages
...that bear witness in earth, the Spirit. and the__water._ and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son 1 John 5:7-9. John said, "Behold... | |
 | John A Knox - 2003 - 186 pages
...that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and these three agree in One. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God, which He hath testified of His Son. He that believeth on the Son of... | |
 | John Phillips - 2003 - 250 pages
...That is enough. b. The credibility of the witness (5:9-10a) this witness carries its own commendation: "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son" (5:9). Most of the things that we... | |
 | John W. Lawrence - 132 pages
...Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved" (John 3:17). "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of... | |
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If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son. 
