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Or as Cornelius a Lapide puts it, it is as if Christ had said, "for I will make you the rock of the Church, so that on you and your faith, and your government, the fabric of My Church may rest securely as upon a most solid foundation of rock". [1] There are echoes of Abraham receiving his name in Genesis 17:5 as well. [2]
Matthew 4:6 is the sixth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Jesus has just rebuffed "the tempter's" first temptation; in this verse, the devil presents Jesus with a second temptation while they are standing on the pinnacle of the temple in the "holy city" ().
But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These ...
The most important of these is the church of Abu Serghis that claims to be built on the place the family had its home. This verse contains Matthew's third direct quote from the Old Testament. [2] This brief line is from Hosea 11:1, referring to God's call to Israel as his firstborn son (cf. Exodus 4:22) 'out of Egypt at the time of Exodus'. [1]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, The World English Bible translates the passage as: Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, The 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek text is:
Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. The New International Version translates the passage as: "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Don't think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell
Augustine: Hereto it also pertains that we be not deceived by the name of Christ not only in such as bear the name and do not the deeds, but yet more by certain works and miracles, such as the Lord wrought because of the unbelieving, but yet warned us that we should not be deceived by such to suppose that there was invisible wisdom where was a visible miracle; wherefore He adds, saying, Many ...