...we are not to be " made perfect in the flesh." We are called to enter into the mind and purposes of Him with whom " one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." We are bidden to " fix our affections on things above" — things which...

...we are not to be " made perfect in the flesh." We are called to enter into the mind and purposes of Him with whom " one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." We are bidden to " fix our affections on things above" — things which...

...eternal ftge " (^ o"í1fítpov aïoiov atavás ttrTív fiкÓiv. Protrept., T. i., p. 78). When applied to Him with whom " one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," the term is eminently appropriate to an emanation neither past nor to come,...

...it can be used in 2 Peter iii., so as intelligently to read its prophetic announcements. The day of Him, with whom " one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day"—" the day of the Lord," as set forth in Zech. xiv.—that day, to be ushered...

...descriptive, not of the ordinary period of twentyfour hours, but the day foretold, and appropriate to him with whom ' one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.' At the dawn of this day, or rather period of time. ' the first resurrection,'...

...sacrifice ever ineffectual, and no gift ever trifling which is endured or expended for the glory of Him with whom " one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day " ; patient, also, of opinion among those whose leader he is, and never intolerant...

...of affairs, and wonder why God should ever have allowed it. But six thousand years is a brief space to Him, with whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. It is a very brief space in a vast moral system, to which no thought can...

...sympathy with human weakness, and to manifest Himself True Man; for long and short are not the terms of Him, with Whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Deliver. Or, as the Vulgate has it much more strikingly, Restore. And then,...

...experience ? It were well to evince a becoming degree of caution when we undertake to consider the doings of Him with whom " one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." If we could suppose that the short-lived insects which glance around us...

...the Paradise of God. This Church then is unchangeable, imperishable, infallible. It is the Church of Him with Whom one day " is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day : " the Church of Jesus Christ Who is " yesterday and to-day and for ever...