 | George Burder - 1818 - 332 pages
...nature of the future world, and the existence of the soul in a separate state from the body, as when he said to the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." He taught the final separation of those characters who are united in the visible church—the... | |
 | 1832 - 812 pages
...wicked suffer the fruits of their own actual transgressions, but also from his own solemn assurance to the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Nor did the prophet when he used those words, nor St. Peter in applying them to Christ,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Conversion - 1844 - 412 pages
...lawful for a man to utter. But this truth is taught more clearly and directly by Christ himself, when he said to the penitent thief, on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." This testimony is of itself abundantly sufficient, and there is no evasion of its 'force,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Christian life - 1844 - 416 pages
...lawful for a man to utter. But this truth is taught more clearly and directly by Christ himself, when he said to the penitent thief, on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." This testimony is of itself abundantly sufficient, and there is no evasion of its force,... | |
 | Otis Thompson - Sermons, English - 1850 - 358 pages
...conscious happiness or misery, of every human soul, immediately after death. His promise to the expiring penitent thief on the cross, "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise," is irreconcilable with the supposition that the soul dies with the body. It will not... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...everlasting happiness. In this sense it is frequently used in the New Testament : our Saviour tells the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise ;" and St. Paul, speaking of himself in the third person, says, '" I knew a man who was... | |
 | Plato - Immortality - 1854 - 352 pages
...seems strongly to conclude for the soul's distinct existence and immortality, is Christ's expression to the penitent thief on the cross : " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise," Luke xxiii. 43. The prayer of St. Paul, 1 Thess. v. 23: " I pray God that your whole... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1864 - 1058 pages
...are as the angels of heaven." He did not teach the doctrine of a temporary sleep in the grave, but said to the penitent thief on the cross, "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise:" instantly upon leaving the body their souls would be together in the state of the blessed.... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1864 - 938 pages
...angels of heaven." il • «lid not teach the doctrine of a temporary sleep in the grave, but >Aid to the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with mo .u Paradise:" instantly upon leaving the body their souls would be togetber in the state of the... | |
 | Richard Cunningham Shimeall - Heaven - 1870 - 482 pages
...proof positive that the Saviour spake of their souls as being then alive. So also, Christ's declaration to the penitent thief on the cross : " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise," * contains the highest degree of evidence, that his soul was to retain its consciousness... | |
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He did not teach the doctrine of a temporary sleep in the grave, but said to the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise:" instantly upon leaving the body their souls would be together in the stote of the blessed. 
