Bible Dictionary: The Calf: Saints Nourished by Grace

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Malachi 4:2
But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Letter vii. --For 335. Easter-Day iv Pharmuthi, iii Kal. April; xx ...
... neither are the saints on earth alone nourished by such ... garments?' For the banquet
of the saints is spotless ... of hunger, He kills the fatted calf; instead of ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/letter vii for 335 easter-day iv.htm

Letter i. The Christian's Mark.
... If the calf is diseased, or if he refuses to eat ... of the gospel, as the infant is
nourished by its ... or that state of perfect holiness which the saints will have ...
/.../letter i the christians mark.htm

The Saints' Privilege and Profit;
... What is a sheep, a bull, an ox, or calf, to Christ, or ... full of incense, therewith
to perfume the prayers of saints, that come thither for grace and mercy ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the saints privilege and profit.htm

Book iv. --Of Marcion's Antitheses.
... In the calf's type Christ destined bodily. ... Into that bread which He hath to His saints. ...
Born of the true God, with bread. Perennial are we nourished, and hope. ...
/.../book iv of marcions antitheses.htm

Give us Today Our Needful Bread
... with friendship and grace than a fatted calf with enmity. ... It would show that saints
are able upon occasion to ... the angels being cheered and nourished in such ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen on prayer/chapter xvii give us today.htm

A Persuasive to Steadfastness
... our spirits are comforted and revived, and our hearts are nourished. ... of the final
perseverance of the saints, which I ... in Moses, or to confide in a golden calf. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 18 1872/a persuasive to steadfastness.htm

Letter Xlv (Circa AD 1120) to a Youth Named Fulk, who Afterwards ...
... he demands a lamb from the flock, a calf from the ... reason is it, that him, whom I
have nourished up from ... Not that I regarded them as saints, nor had nothing to ...
/.../some letters of saint bernard abbot of clairvaux/letter xlv circa a d 1120.htm

Thoughts Upon Worldly Riches. Sect. I.
... our Faith may be confirmed, and our Souls nourished to eternal ... converted by it, who
now are glorify'd Saints in Heaven ... to offer so much as a Lamb or Calf unto it ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon worldly riches sect.htm

Mongrel Religion
... nor serve them." This priest taught them the calf worship, but ... away from it that
which should have nourished it ... does not mean us, for we are saints." You bring ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 27 1881/mongrel religion.htm

They Shall be Called the Children of God
... Israel had wrought folly in the golden calf, he breaks ... of God suck milk and are
nourished unto salvation ... In the Word preached the saints hear Christ's voice; in ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/19 they shall be called.htm

Subtopics

Calf

Calf Image

Calf of Gold was Made of the Ornaments of the Women

Calf of Gold was Made: After an Egyptian Model

Calf of Gold was Made: To Go Before the Congregation

Calf of Gold was Made: To Represent God

Calf of Gold: An Altar Built Before

Calf of Gold: Destroyed by Moses

Calf of Gold: Fashioned With a Graven Tool

Calf of Gold: Made on Account of the Delay of Moses in the Mount

Calf of Gold: Making of a Forgetting of God