 | 1869
...second century : — " Tet about the modest supper room of the Christians alone a great ado is made. Our feast explains itself by its name. The Greeks...the good things of the feast we benefit the needy. . . . As it is an act of religious service, it permits no violence or immodesty. The participants,... | |
 | Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson - 1869 - 548 str.
...call out the firemen. Yet about the modest supper-room of the Christians alone a great ado is made. Our feast explains itself by its name. The Greeks...the good things of the feast we benefit the needy ; not as it is with you, do parasites aspire to the glory of satisfying their licentious propensities,... | |
 | Tertullian - 1869 - 546 str.
...call out the firemen. Yet about the modest supper-room of the Christians alone a great ado is made. Our feast explains itself by its name. The Greeks...the good things of the feast we benefit the needy ; not as it is with you, do parasites aspire to the glory of satisfying their licentious propensities,... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1877 - 620 str.
...heathen, draws a picture of the Agape as it still existed. l " Our Feast," he says, " shows what it is by its name. The Greeks call it 'Love.' Whatever it...the good things of the Feast we benefit the needy. . . . If the object of our Feast be good, in the light of that object consider its further regulations.... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1877 - 620 str.
...heathen, draws a picture of the Agape as it still existed. * " Our Feast," he says, " shows what it is by its name. The Greeks call it 'Love.' Whatever it...in the name of piety is gain, since with the good tilings of the Feast we benefit the needy. . . If the object of our Feast be good, in the light of... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1877 - 624 str.
...still existed. 1 " Our Feast," he says, " shows what it is by its name. The Greeks call it 1Love.' Whatever it costs, our outlay in the name of piety...the good things of the Feast we benefit the needy. If the object of our Feast be good, in the light of that object consider its further regulations. As... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1884 - 446 str.
...Ps. 118. 1 Apol. c. 39: " About the modest supper-room of the Christians alone a great ado is made. Our feast explains itself by its name. The Greeks...the good things of the feast we benefit the needy, not as it is with yon, do parasites aspire to the glory of satisfying their licentious propensities,... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1884 - 906 str.
...Ps. 118. 1 Apol. c. 39 : " About the modest supper-room of the Christians alone a great ado is made. Our feast explains itself by its name. The Greeks...the good things of the feast we benefit the needy, not as it is with you, do parasites aspire to the glory of satisfying their licentious propensities,... | |
 | Edward Backhouse - 1884 - 686 str.
...of truth ! "You abuse our humble feasts as extravagant and wicked. Our feast is a modest supper ; it explains itself by its name. The Greeks call it 'Love.' Whatever it costs, the outlay is gain; since with the good things of the feast we succour the needy. As it is an act of... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1886 - 514 str.
...age of Christianity. In his ' Apology,' 2 addressed to the rulers of the Roman Empire, he says : — Our feast explains itself by its name. The Greeks...the good things of the feast we benefit the needy ; but as it is with you, parasites aspire to the glory of satisfying their licentious propensities,... | |
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Whatever it costs, our outlay in the name of piety is gain, since with the good things of the feast we benefit the needy; not as... 
