Bible Dictionary: Sheep:

◄ Sheep: (In Patience and Simplicity) of Patience, of Christ ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Christ's Charge to his Heralds
... their Shepherd, they are yet 'sheep,' and they ... degenerate into cunning, nor our
simplicity become blindness to ... arms are meek, unconquerable patience, and Christ ...
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Calvin -- Enduring Persecution for Christ
... may be able to fortify themselves with patience, so as ... which says, "We have been
led like sheep to the ... dangers or threatings, to walk in simplicity as God has ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume i/calvin enduring persecution for.htm

The Resurrection of Christ; his Last Interview with his Disciples ...
... many noble examples of faith, charity, patience, and zeal ... it does not bear unequivocal
marks of simplicity, candour, and ... to their Master, and the sheep to their ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture i the resurrection of.htm

Second Sunday after Easter
... by suffering, he reviled not; as a sheep for the ... for me with so great meekness and
patience, how much ... must be taught in its purity and simplicity, and must so ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/second sunday after easter.htm

A Pressed Man Yielding to Christ
... another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the ... to escape from this blessed divine
simplicity, "Believe on ... are, so that, with prayer, and patience, and wise ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 46 1900/a pressed man yielding to.htm

Death and Life in Christ
... of Christ crucified in all simplicity and earnestness ... I give unto my sheep eternal
life ... of compassion, longsuffering, tenderness, kindness, patience; you are to ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 9 1863/death and life in christ.htm

A Sight of the Crowned Christ
... of the Desert, alone with sheep and stars ... the greatness of gentleness and patience,
these characteristics of ... a delightful touch of the simplicity of natural ...
/.../quiet talks on the crowned christ of revelation/iii a sight of the crowned.htm

John Chapter xix. 1-16.
... preferred to manifest the corresponding greatness of His patience. ... as a lamb; that
is, in simplicity and innocence ... answer, He was silent as a sheep; where He ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate cxvi john chapter xix.htm

Examples of the Various Styles Drawn from Scripture.
... he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ... as the ministers of God, in
much patience, in afflictions ... the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 20 examples of the various.htm

The Life of a Christian Man. Scriptural Arguments Exhorting to It.
... being so arduous, he needs the greatest patience. ... Plainness and unadorned simplicity
of the Scripture ... were scattered abroad like lost sheep, wandering through ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 6 the life of.htm