Bible Dictionary: Patience: They Who are in Authority, should Exercise

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 18:26
The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Acts 26:3
Especially because I know you to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: why I beseech you to hear me patiently.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

On the Feast of St Timothy, or the Memorial of St Peter
... treat such offenders with more patience, kinder words and ... temptation which befalls
those in authority, by which ... of their labours; wherefore they should ever be ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tauler/the inner way/sermon xii on the feast.htm

Sermon for St. Peter's Day
... treat such offenders with more patience, kinder words and ... temptation which befalls
those in authority, by which ... of their labours; wherefore they should ever be ...
/.../xxvi sermon for st peters.htm

Fifth Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to the Fruits of Faith.
... morals, we are to treat with gentleness, kindness and patience. ... lives; and this
regardless of who they are or ... No, the Gospel does not give you authority to say ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/fifth sunday after trinity exhortation.htm

On the Fast of the Tenth Month.
... He might both crown the wretched for their patience and the ... in fine under his command
and authority the whole ... they frequent, and in whose company they take rest ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xvi on the fast.htm

The Letter of the Synod, Relative to Its Decisions: and the ...
... the holy Synod has anathematized, having scarcely patience to endure ... honored
fellow-minister, Alexander, so that they shall have no authority to propose ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of scholasticus/chapter ix the letter of the.htm

Of Bearing the Cross --One Branch of Self-Denial.
... Illustrated by the authority and example of Christ ... For our thought should then be,
How high the honour which ... at a too exact and rigid patience, they banished it ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 8 of bearing the.htm

Letter cxxxviii. (AD 412. )
... of men, but written with the authority of God ... the tendency even of those precepts
which they are much ... through desire for revenge, we lose patience itself,"a ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter cxxxviii a d 412.htm

The Law of the New Kingdom
... comforted their grief, and with patience and tenderness ... the indignant disciples,
"Ye know that they which are ... and their great ones exercise authority upon them ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 60 the law of.htm

Of Special Duties of Religious Persons. ...
... as if they sought occasion of showing their authority and ability ... do seem a little
amiss, wherein they show great ... do, out of a love for patience, silence, and ...
/.../chapter vii of special duties.htm

The Preface
... that man's character be, whose authority is lost ... contendings, orthodox and exemplary
lives, should be copied ... word of their great Lord's patience; they in the ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the preface.htm