| 1833 - 360 pages
...but try the spirits if they be of God : because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit, which confesseth that JESUS Christ is come in the flesh, is of God : 3 And every.'Spirit, that dissolveth JESUs, is not of God : and this is Antichrist,... | |
| Luke Howard - 1837 - 486 pages
...law and were innocent. Hence the apostle may have added, ' Let no man deceive you.' Ch. iv. 2, 3. ' Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God. And every spirit which confesseth not Jesus, is not of God.' The part here omitted is in the Greek. In a note it is... | |
| 1812 - 384 pages
...seems to allude to these heretics, when he says : " Many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this is the Spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flah is of God. (1 Epist. cap. iv.) So also does St. Ignatius : " As one of the least among you,... | |
| William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1846 - 496 pages
...of God ; because many false prophets are gone out in the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God ; and every spirit which doth not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God : and this is that spirit... | |
| John England - 1849 - 534 pages
...the world. In this is the spirit of God known ; every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God : and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh and he is now already in the world." It was... | |
| 1851 - 576 pages
...Word was made flesh," — Verbum caro factum est.^ "Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God," or, as the Protestant version has it, " every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come... | |
| Jeremiah O'Callaghan - 1852 - 340 pages
...saying of the apostle and evangelist : 1 John IF, Every spirit which confesseth that Christ Jesus is come in the flesh, is of God, and every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God. and this is antichrist. But what means to dissolve Jesus, unless it be to separate from him human nature,... | |
| Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori - 1857 - 654 pages
...only an apparent one. Hear the words of St. John : " Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that dissolveth Jesus Christ (in the Greek version who does not confess that Jesus is come in the flesh) is not of God, and... | |
| Thomas Story - 1860 - 398 pages
...of God ; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God; and every spirit which doth not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God : And this is that spirit... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1860 - 296 pages
...8). And again, in his Epistle, John says (iv. 1—3), By this know ye (cognoscite) Me Spirit of God. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit which separates Jesus (solvit Jesnm, ie divides Jesus from Christ) is not of God, but of Antichrist.... | |
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