Bible Dictionary: Liberality: should be Exercised: Toward Enemies

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Proverbs 25:21
If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
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Moral Characteristics.
... a) The peculiar forbearance which Constantine exercised toward Maximian. ... He took
care that his children should be well ... was marked by very great liberality (cf. ...
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The Planting of the Church in New England --Pilgrim and Puritan.
... and exclusiveness, do really excel, in liberality and patient ... and of the same household
should be strangers. ... what authority their ministry was to be exercised. ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter viii the planting of.htm

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
... know the Gospel, then nothing is as it should be; the ... But the liberality of kindness
is not to be extended to ... 13, 6-8. Love, then, must be exercised, not in ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/fifth sunday after epiphany.htm

Ezra, the Priest and Scribe
... attainments of Ezra, and for the liberality of the ... be strengthened if the Israelites
themselves should now reveal ... The care exercised by Ezra in providing for ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 50 ezra the priest.htm

Of Prayer --A Perpetual Exercise of Faith. The Daily Benefits ...
... rather than embrace the divine liberality voluntarily offered ... mutilated, or interrupted
and wandering, should meet with a ... all who are truly exercised in prayer ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of prayera perpetual.htm

The True Gnostic is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly ...
... In particular, the habit of liberality [3606] which ... according to their requests,
[we should say] that ... its sincerity the faith which is exercised in reference ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xii the true gnostic is.htm

The Beginning of Justification. In what Sense Progressive.
... saved," "not of works, lest any man should boast," (Eph ... let us not boast of voluntary
liberality in matters ... had otherwise chosen, he might have exercised (1:Cor ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 14 the beginning of.htm

The Last Interview of Paul with the Elders of Ephesus.
... order than elders or presbyters, who exercised authority over ... Christians, whether
ministers or people, should be commended ... the source of his liberality, that it ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxiv the last interview.htm

The Rival Empresses --Pulcheria and Eudocia
... of the Empire under one emperor, should a son be ... to be grateful to the empress for
her unbounded liberality. ... who had for so many years exercised the paramount ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/x the rival empressespulcheria and.htm

Post-Nicene Mothers
... who, according to Ammianus Marcellinus, exercised a close and ... myself to perpetual
chastity, I should look for a ... of her divorce shows such liberality of thought ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/v post-nicene mothers.htm