| J S. Pipe - 1813 - Страниц: 646
...labour, and patience, the angel of the Ephesian church; but, like him, they must expect the reproof, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love;" and in general where the reproof is disregarded, and they do not rise from their fall, their state... | |
| John Howe - 1813 - Страниц: 536
...doubt, most justly, and most righteously so. See but that one instance in Rev. •!. 4, 5. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works ; or else I will... | |
| John Stanford - 1814 - Страниц: 450
...works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them that are evil ; nevertheless I have somewhat against thee ; because thou hast left thy first love. (Rev. ii.) If that love you professed, was from God, you cannot possibly have lost it ; but, there is a possibility... | |
| 1835 - Страниц: 612
...company of those, in whom they once experienced delight. Loud is the voice which addresses them, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember whence thou art fallen and repent, and do the first works !" O young Christian, think of the... | |
| William Bates - 1815 - Страниц: 544
...allayed, and stronger resolutions decline to remissness. Our Saviour tells the church of Ephesus, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love: remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works." It is said of Jehosaphat,... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - Страниц: 572
...vessel; but I speak the words of Christ: therefore refuse not his word : refuse not him that says, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Let us every one ask, " What does conscience say to this charge? Have we left our first love?" Then... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1816 - Страниц: 488
...for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." Nevertheless, says he, in the 4th verse, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." Their affection was cooled, their zeal was abated, they were become more remiss and lukewarm in the... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1817 - Страниц: 416
...these ideas, is found but once in Scripture. " Ne" vertheless," says Christ to the Ephesian Church, " I have somewhat against thee ; because thou hast •"' left thy first love : remember, therefore, from " whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy '"' first works ; else... | |
| bp. John Beck Holmes, John Holmes - 1818 - Страниц: 488
...complained of a declension of his love to the Lord Jesus ; and once, while meditating on that text : " I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love," he exclaimed : ' Ah ! I too have left my first love !' A few days before his end, being visited by... | |
| John Bayford - 1820 - Страниц: 364
...hast borne, and hast patience, and for my Name sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works, or else I will... | |
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