 | Samuel Watson - Spiritualism - 1873 - 214 pages
...Protestant Church, says : " No one has ever yet been saved in heaven ; no one sent to hell." Our Saviour said to the penitent thief on the cross : " This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." After his resurrection, he said to Mary : "I have not yet ascended to my Father and your... | |
 | John ROXBURGH - 1875 - 112 pages
...never-ending communion with Christ, the author and matter of life spiritual and eternal. And so, when Jesus said to the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in paradise," he virtually declared that, before the end of that day, his disembodied spirit should... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1878 - 1030 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 stote of the blessed.... | |
 | William Rogers Williams - Methodists - 1880 - 168 pages
...the ignominious tree to the throne of God and the Lamb ; to whom our Lord graciously said, as He did to the penitent thief on the cross, "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." 'To conclude: the religious character of the deceased serves to exhibit the excellence... | |
 | Elihu Johnson - Bible - 1883 - 436 pages
...hope can never reach him." And to support the second position, they quote the words of the Saviour to the penitent thief on the cross, "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." But if they will turn to John 20 : 17, they may easily discover that Jesus declared after... | |
 | William Usborne Moore - Rationalism - 1903 - 402 pages
...of Dives and Lazarus is supposed to be the intermediate state ; and when Christ uttered the promise to the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise," it is said that He was referring to Hades, where He was to visit the " souls in prison"... | |
 | What - Immortality - 1916 - 138 pages
...but it led them further, in my opinion, than New Testament Scripture sanctions. When Our Lord assured the penitent thief on the cross : "This day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise," He chose a word familiar to the Hebrew teaching of His day, but which we have no right... | |
 | Philip Henry Wicksteed - Catholic Church and philosophy - 1926 - 708 pages
...eternally with wonder. And wonder, so long as it is wonder, cannot dull. Take another instance. Jesus said to the penitent thief on the cross, " This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." But Christ himself "descended into hell," and rose only on the third day. Then how could... | |
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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. 
