 | Richard F. Lovelace - 1979 - 460 pagine
...general historical truth in the days of our Saviour, and seems to be so yet, "that strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." . . . But this will not be true in the days of the Millennium. It was a general historical truth in the apostolic... | |
 | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - 1984 - 664 pagine
...cried aloud: the pivots are rusty because so few men take the way of salvation ("strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt. vii. 14: and cf. Purg. x. 2). ll.136-8: Tarpeia, etc.: the Roman treasury was... | |
 | Flo Morse - 1987 - 404 pagine
...never felt our faith to be a proselyting one since the early days. Jesus said, "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." This does not mean that the inner Christ is not for all, the high, the low, the favored... | |
 | Mary Jane Hurst - 1990 - 184 pagine
...for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction," whereas "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matthew 8:13-14). Of the scriptural references to doors, perhaps the most important... | |
 | J. Nigro Sansonese - 1994 - 392 pagine
...trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Again, in Matthew 7:14: "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Ignatius of Antioch, writing to * Cf., Plato; at the end of the Phtedo, having drunk... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1994 - 400 pagine
...Lord, are there few that be saved ? or that the Lord answered them by saying, " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it," Luke 13, 24. 11. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,... | |
 | Susanna Wesley - 1997 - 529 pagine
...to deny and conquer. This is what gave occasion for that memorable observation, "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there by that find it." 106 Why few, but because there are not many that will be at the cost and pains to... | |
 | Anna B. Kingsford, Edward Maitland - 1998 - 366 pagine
...derived his allusion to the " Second Birth," and the idea expressed in the warning : " Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto Life, and few there be that find it." 84. Such was the mode whereby was accomplished initiation into those greater Mysteries... | |
 | J. C. Ryle - 2001 - 236 pagine
...are told in the Sermon on the Mount." The Lord Jesus said so 1 ,900 years ago. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." (Matt. vii. 14.) Few will be saved, because few will take the trouble to seek salvation.... | |
 | 1873 - 354 pagine
...is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat ;' and again it says, ' Narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it;' but, dear father, it is not too late yet if you ask now, to-morrow might be too late ; you have but a very... | |
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Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it... 
