...their unwearied service and labour of love. If, saith the Apostle, in his epistle to the Philipplans," I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you allb. "And to the Thessalonians," So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have...

...be offered. A similar allusion to sacrifice occurs in Phil, ii, 17 : " Yea, and if I be poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Here the apostle represents the faith of the Philippians as the sacrificial victim, and compares his...

...of these H 2 things move me, neither count I my life dear unto me," in a cause so holy. " Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." But the pecuniary means requisite for their outfit, passage, and future support, the Committee do not...

...todespair; to contemplate the possibility at least of his condemnation and martyrdom : " Vea, and if 1 be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." No. I. But can we show that St. Paul visited Ephesns after his liberation at Rome ? or rather, can...

...in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly :" that of his condenmation, ver. 17- " Yea, and if I be offered* upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." This consistency is material, if the consideration of it be confioed to the epistle. It is farther...

...received, he proceeds (Chap. ii. 17.) as follows:— <l Yea, and if I be offered upon " the saerifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." The intervening charge is happily and judiciously introduced by the apostle, in order that the Philippians...

...me. Such was the invincible stedfastness of Paul, that he could look martyrdom in the face, and say. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. — Jer. iii. 19. Phil. ii. 17. In explaining the exhortation, let us farther inquire, ' how or in...

...the sacrificial rites is his expression ! " Yea, and if I be poured out as a lihation (imetSaitMi) upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." And how full of affection and exultation is his figurative appellation of the Fhilippians ; " My brethren,...

...despair; to contemplate the possihility at least of his condemnation and martyrdom : " Yea, and if I he offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." No. I. But can we show that St. Paul visited Ephcsus after his liheration at Rome ? or rather, can...

...is preached, and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. — Phil. i. 8. 15—18. Luke ix. 50. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, &c. I have no man likeminded; all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.— Phil....