 | F J. A - 1881 - 120 頁
...GOD turns man's curses into blessings. The crucifixion of Christ was the means of man's redemption. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. THE TENT AND ITS OCCUPANT. 2 COR. v. 4. — ' For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened,'... | |
 | Joseph Henry Dubbs - 1885 - 462 頁
...who beheld such triumphant death-scenes were sure to be attracted to the faith that produced them. "The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." "THE CHURCH UNDER THE CROSS." Holland, like many other countries, had gradually become prepared for the... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1910 - 780 頁
...been excelled, and which only ended with her death in 1861. Here, as in many other places and ages, the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. The region about the capital, with its quarter of a million of native Christians, was in 1883 the centre... | |
 | 1888 - 572 頁
...church as well has had an experience in this respect altogether similar. It was born of persecution. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The sword, the gibbet, the dungeon, wild beast, and fire, used for its extirpation, were means of its purification... | |
 | George Henry Gerberding - 1889 - 302 頁
...destroy His followers, and blot out that new way which they called heresy. Then already, as ever after, "the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. ' ' The Church multiplied rapidly in Jerusalem. The disciples 8 (153) also were forcibly scattered abroad in... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1895 - 352 頁
...they been attended with any better success there than here ? The very earliest Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The Emperor Julian, the most terrible enemy that Christianity ever experienced, was fully persuaded of... | |
 | 1896 - 934 頁
...compelled to flee and wander " in deserts, in mountains, and in dons and caves of the earth." But " the blood of the Martyrs was the seed of the Church." The more it was persecuted, the more it increased, till the truth of Christianity triumphed over Paganism.... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1897 - 500 頁
...they been attended with any better success there than here ? The very earliest Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. The emperor Julian, the most terrible enemy that Christianity ever experienced was fully persuaded of this.... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1903 - 470 頁
...there any descriptive word by which we might imagine the aspect of his appearance. Years rolled on. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. The fugitive Nazarenes, grouped in remote places, zealously propagated the faith, and disciples were greatly... | |
 | John Boyd Thacher - 1903 - 738 頁
...Indians in the mines of the New World, the readier would they be to adopt the faith of their masters. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. The pains of the pagan nurtured its growth. Present things might be grievous to be borne, but they were... | |
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Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. 
