41 Metaphors for gospels

Hence his gospel is the gospel of peace, and his ministers ambassadors of peace, Isaiah lii.

We gave them narcotics.' "'Tell me your narcotics.' "'The Gospel of Progressthat is our opium; it gives deep sleep and sweet dreams.

Really, the Gospels are not a discovery of yesterday, nor even of the day before yesterday.

Ah, Gospel of all gospels, that God Himself, the Almighty God, is the eternal and unchangeable realisation of all that I and all mankind, in our purest and our noblest moments, have ever dreamed concerning the true, the beautiful, and the good.

His gospel is his teaching, not his history, his own teaching, not that of his followersthe reflections of the apostles are private opinions.

Hence his gospel of hero-worship, for the "hero" is the greatest embodied "Idea" a man can know, he is a "living light fountain," he is "a man sent hither to make the divine mystery more impressively known to us."

This, the Gospels themselves being witness, is the culmination and crown of Revelation; and it is this which, in the Epistles, and pre-eminently the Epistles of Paul, fills so large a place.

Most people are by this time aware that M. Zola's gospel is work.

The very small number of additional facts and sayings that we are able to glean from the writers who, according to 'Supernatural Religion,' have used apocryphal Gospels so freely, seems to be proof that our present Gospels were (as we should expect) the fullest and most comprehensive of their kind.

" The Gospels of MacDurnan (now in the Archbishop's Library at Lambeth) is a small and beautiful volume which was executed by an abbot of Armagh who died in the year 891.

The contemptuous reprobation of Strauss in which it is fashionable for English writers to indulge, makes it a duty to express my high sense of the lucid force with which he unanswerably shows that the fourth gospel (whoever the author was) is no faithful exhibition of the discourses of Jesus.

But the Gospel, the good news of the Old Testament, the Gospel, the good news of the New Testament, is the Revelation of God and God's ways, which began on Christmas Day, and finished on Ascension Day: and what is that?

I ask, in the face of the gallows of Bewley, what we are to think of that prodigious paradox according to which the Gospel is the patron of slavery.

"The Gospel of Christ is not a matter of mere argument."

Though the Gospel is not the law, it is a truth which has been making its way since the seventeenth century, and which seems to be no longer contested to-day, except in the camp of the champions of slavery.

What gospels of joy are such letters!

In the second place, it is allowed that the first Gospel is not the oldest and that the apostle Matthew was not its author.

The Gospel is not a Koran.

We thus seem to be reduced to the conclusion that Justin's Gospel or Gospels was an unknown entity of which no historical evidence survives, and this would almost be enough, according to the logical Law of Parsimony, to drive us back upon the assumption that our present Gospels only had been used.

He spoke of the strength of the weak; he showed that principles, however despised they may be, end by revenging themselves on interests; he recalled the fact that the Gospel is a power in America.

It is however possible that Ignatius may be quoting, not directly from our Gospel, but from one of the original documents (such as Ewald's hypothetical 'Spruch-sammlung') out of which our Gospel was composedthough it is somewhat remarkable that this particular sentence is wanting in the parallel passage in St. Luke (cf.

If Marcion's Gospel was an extract from a manuscript containing our present St. Luke, then not only is it certain that that Gospel was already in existence, but there is further evidence to show that it must have been in existence for some time.

The serious and upright practising of the gospel is the only best mean to keep thee firm in the profession of the gospel, when the gospel with thee is not a few fine notions in the brain; but is heavenly and necessary truth sunk into the heart, and living and acting there; it will keep thee, and thou wilt own it more firmly and steadfastly in a day of trial.

He is "perfectly clear" as to the fourth Gospel being a forgery; again for reasons which he alone has discovered.

Or, is it not possible that the converse may be true, and that Marcion's Gospel was the original and ours an interpolated version?

41 Metaphors for  gospels