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It might be added that there seem to be degrees of wickedness represented by these spirits: for it is stated in Matt. 12:43-45 that the demon, returning to his house, "taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself." The question is often raised whether demon possession obtains at the present time.
Withdrawal from Judea through Samaria John iv. 1-42. Unlooked-for welcome in Galilee John iv. 43-45. The Early Ministry in Judea We owe to the fourth gospel our knowledge of the fact that Jesus began his general ministry in Jerusalem. The silence of the other records concerning this beginning cannot discredit the testimony of John.
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses. JOSHUA xxi. 43-45; xxii. 1-9.
But when a licentious monarch was placed upon the throne, a flood of the grossest debauchery was let loose; and those hypocrites, who had put on a cloak of religion to serve a temporary purpose, threw it off and became ringleaders in the vilest iniquities. See Matthew 12:43-45. Ed.
IV, secs. 3, 4. T. W. Higginson, in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 107, p. 301. H. Sidgwick, Practical Ethics, chap. VII. Hibbert Journal, vol. II, p. 39. H. R. Seager, Introduction to Economics, chap. IV, secs. 43-45.
It is not the fruit that makes the tree, but the tree that makes the fruit. A man must be good, before he can do good; and evil before he can do evil. This is that which is asserted by the Son of God himself; and it lieth so level with reason and the nature of things, that it cannot be contradicted: Matth. vii. 16-18; Luke vi. 43-45.
Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift, ll. 134, 135. Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, pl. 33, col. ii. ll. 54-56. VR. 65, col. ii. l. 13. See, e.g., Tiglathpileser I., IR. 16, col. viii. ll. 56, 57; Sennacherib, IR. 47, col. vi. l. 67-71. VR. 64, col. ii. ll. 43-45. Gen. xxviii. 18. Religion of the Semites, p. 364. See Robertson Smith, ib. p. 215.
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