...I say the truth in Christ I He not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart,...from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh. A disposition to repine at the happiness of others is unnatural. So far from being happier...

...bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow at my heart. 3 For I could wish, that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : 4 Who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,...

...in Yorkshire, for the Instruction of Young Men for the Ministry, then preached from Rom. ix. . 3, " For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the llc.sh."' The subject of this discourse was Apostolic /eal, fully explained, and powerfully enforced...

...y^f ij-«u vrrio run »Sihpuv xt \. which is thus preposterously rendered in the common version, " For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren." Wakefield has given another very different translation of the passage, " I have great grief and continual...

...say the truth in Christ: I lie not; my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart;...from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." However criticism may dispose of this passage, it certainly expressed very strong benevolence...

...say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart....from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh." Nor did he feel less tenderness and concern for those in Galatia, whom he addresses with...

...say the truth in Christ, 1 lie not (my conscience ilio bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost) that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart....from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?" If yon sympathize with that denned apostle in ardent self-sacrificing longing, or, if yon...

...made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some," 2 Cor. ix. 20, 22. Is it charity? "I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren," Rom. ix. 3. " I will very gladly spend and be spent for you," 2 Cor. xii. 15. Is it courage ? He resisted...

...conscience also bearing me witness in the " Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness, and con" tinual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that " myself...Christ, for my brethren, " my kinsmen, according to the flesh." Under these impressions therefore, a leading object or purpose with St. Paul was, to endeavour,...

...and, if not, blot me, I pray t/iee, put of the book -which than hast -written ; the other, Rom. ix. 3. I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh. But to this it may lie answered, that Moses, in desiring to be...