Servants: The Term often Used to Express Humility

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Genesis 18:3
And said, My LORD, if now I have found favor in your sight, pass not away, I pray you, from your servant:
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Genesis 33:5
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The children which God has graciously given your servant.
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1 Samuel 20:7
If he say thus, It is well; your servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
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1 Kings 20:32
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Benhadad said, I pray you, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
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Attributes of Love.
... very hairs of the heads of his servants, and that ... Are these representations of what
we so often see among ... The term holiness may, in a general sense, be applied ...
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Abraham, his Trial in Egypt; his Humility
... not armeth, evil men, [765]400; threatens often without punishing ... God, used in a
lower sense, [772]318. ... Heresies, what meant by the term, [832]158; must needs be ...
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The Last Interview of Paul with the Elders of Ephesus.
... that this is a new sense affixed to the term. ... religion, as in medicine, things are
often wholesome which ... of God, who, in recompensing his servants, will regard ...
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Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... 71]ib.; deformity of, [72]92; with servants, reproved, [73]93 ... "Can, cannot," sometimes
express choice, not ... to the dull hearers, [268]82; why used often the sign ...
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And Disputes
... to eat bread with him were often vexed and ... When the king's servants chafed, and would
have spurred him on ... The word Transubstantiation (an ambiguous term to the ...
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Concerning Justification.
... be admired, because that sentence or term (so frequently ... the men good and faithful
servants that improved ... circumcision (which word is often used to comprehend ...
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The Miracle of Pentecost and the Birthday of the Christian
... sons and daughters, young men and old men, servants and handmaidens. ... It is this
heteroglossolalia, as I may term it, which ... (huperoon, ?lyh) as often used as a ...
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Of Faith. The Definition of It. Its Peculiar Properties.
... 15. We add, that it is sure and firm, the better to express strength and constancy
of ... So true is this, that the term faith is often used as equivalent to ...
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The Duty of Reproving Our Neighbour
... Immediately after these are our servants, whether bound to us for a term of years
or any shorter term. ... a serious air to what you speak, is, as often as may ...
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1 Cor. Ix. 13, 14
... done all, say, We are unprofitable servants; for we ... See how throughout he uses the
term "right," intimating this, as I have often observed; that ...
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