 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 610 pages
...more than that which is appointed you." " And the soldiers asked him, What shall we do?" He replies, " Do violence to no man ; neither accuse any falsely : and be content with your wages," ver. 10 — 14. God's people, at such a time as this, ought especially to abound in deeds of charity,... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 504 pages
...you.' To the soldiers, who were noted for rapine, false information, and the like vices, he said, ' Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.' In like manner our blessed Saviour, when he dismissed the woman taken in adultery, he let her depart... | |
 | William NORRIS (Rector of Warblington, Hants.) - 1830 - 372 pages
...than that which was appointed them." And the soldiers he dissuaded from oppression and plunder ; " do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages V Nor did the tetrarch himself escape this scrutinizing discrimination, for he, also, was attacked... | |
 | Bible - 1831 - 294 pages
...that which 14 is appointed you. And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying ; And what shall we do ? And he said unto them ; Do violence to no...man, neither accuse any falsely ; and be content with is your wages. And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their EVENTS PRECEDING THE... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...nowhere forbidden or condemned. When the soldiers demanded of John the Baptist w.'ut they -!u MI !il do, trivance must have 1 1 . .• . I a contriver. That former one from one preceding it : no altera wages."t In which answer we do not find that, in order to prepare themselves for the reception of the... | |
 | John Whitecross - Anecdotes - 1831 - 302 pages
...in Jesus. Chap, iii, ver. 14. — And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do ? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely ; and he content with your wages. Two British officers led their troops against a settlement of the enemy... | |
 | Disciple of the Master - Bible - 1996 - 222 pages
...be merciful aiter your ability. 9 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely ; and be content with sufficient wages. 10 And to all he spake saying, Keep yourselves from blood and things strangled, and... | |
 | Adrian Keith Goldsworthy - History - 1998 - 340 pages
...(Oxford, 1984), 9-13. For the provincial's view of soldiers see Isaac, Limits of Empire, 260-310. army to 'Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages' (Luke. 3. 14). In the previous century one governor of CiHcia had extorted money from the cities of... | |
 | Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine, Dino Bigongiari - Religion - 1996 - 388 pages
...their arms, and withdraw themselves wholly from military service; whereas the word spoken to such was, "Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages," 27 — the command to be content with their wages manifestly Implying no prohibition to continue in... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - Christianity and politics - 1997 - 230 pages
...words of John the baptist when in answer to the demand which the soldiers made; What shall we do? — he said unto them, do violence to no man, neither...accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages? For though they plainly imply, that, at that time, the military profession was not unlawful, and, consequently,... | |
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And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages. 
