 | Charles Elliott - Wyandot Indians - 1837 - 228 pages
...angry. And this is agreeable to what our Lord Jesus Christ says, when he declares, "I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled 1 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on the earth? I tell you nay, but rather division : for from... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - Sunday school literature - 1837 - 258 pages
...required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled ? But I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished ! Suppose... | |
 | Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - Catechetical sermons - 1838 - 392 pages
...Holy Ghost was in fiery tongues ; concerning which the Lord Luke 12, says joyfully, / am come to send fire on the earth; and. what will I, if it be already kindled? (5.) 9. This Holy Ghost descended on the Lord at His baptism, that the dignity of Him who was baptized... | |
 | Robert Sandeman - Christian sects - 1838 - 534 pages
...thy seed and her seed." In the same view we must understand these words of Jesus, " I am come to set fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled 1 Suppose, ye, that I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell you, nay, but rather division. From henceforth,... | |
 | Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - Catechetical sermons - 1838 - 370 pages
...Ghost was in fiery tongues ; concerning which the Lord Luke 12, says joy fully, / am come to send Jire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? (5-) 9. This Holy Ghost descended on the Lord at His baptism, that the dignity of Him who was baptized... | |
 | James P. Miller - Presbyterian Church - 1839 - 536 pages
...fighting against the kingdom of Christ. He has forewarned us of these. I am come, says he, to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled? Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell you, nay, but rather division-. The preaching... | |
 | Joseph Wolff - Jews - 1839 - 434 pages
...renovation of the earth, which shall be purified by fire; citing for this, Luke xii. 49, " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be already kindled ?" What I invariably observe to be the case with mystical philosophers is, that they are averse to... | |
 | Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - Catechetical sermons - 1839 - 410 pages
...Holy Ghost was in fiery tongues; concerning which the Lord Luke 12, says joyfully, / am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? (5.) 9. This Holy Ghost descended on the Lord at His baptism, that the dignity of Him who was baptized... | |
 | William Alexander - Quakers - 1839 - 434 pages
...the effects of His manifestation in the body prepared of the Father, Jesus says : " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled." " But," said He, " I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened," or as in the margin,... | |
 | Alexander Robert Charles Dallas - Pastoral theology - 1841 - 502 pages
...himself says, and how He explains this separating, trying fire, in the 49th verse —" I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled ? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! Suppose... | |
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I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 
