Bible Encyclopedia: Truth: Approve Themselves By

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In Investigating the Truth the Philosophers have Broken through ...
... falsehood for truth, nor hide the truth in darkness ... to worship a wooden thing, which
men themselves have made ... geometry and astronomy (which they approve of), to ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xxvi in investigating the.htm

Of the Variety of Philosophers, and their Truth.
... things which are false, or choose and approve of those ... things by divine testimonies,
yet the truth would explain ... of any sect, and have devoted themselves to it ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap vii of the variety of.htm

To Domnus, Bishop of Antioch.
... Nestorius; nor were they indeed so worded throughout as to approve themselves to
all ... Nestorians, felt that in the attack on Nestorianism the truth of Christ's ...
/.../theodoret/the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/cxii to domnus bishop of.htm

Be Ye Doers of the Word, not Hearers Only, Deceiving Your Own ...
... and government of God, and would approve and admire every truth in the Bible, if
they could view it abstractedly, and without any relation to themselves. ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/be ye doers of the.htm

Though These Eternal Moral Obligations are Indeed of Themselves ...
... rules, which are thus of themselves really obligatory ... and goodness, his justice,
righteousness, and truth; these things ... him; nay, we cannot approve ourselves to ...
/.../ii proposition ii though these.htm

Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic.
... same apostle, must "give no offence in anything, but in everything approve themselves
not to ... in the Holy Ghost, in love unfeigned, in the word of truth, in the ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xxi description of the perfect.htm

There is one Knowledge of the Thing in the Thing Itself, and ...
... unchangeable above our mind, when we approve or reject ... according to that [form of
eternal truth], and discern ... But those things themselves we either touch if ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 6 there is one knowledge.htm

The Praise of Men.
... leads to jealousy and hatred; did it prefer goodness and truth to gifts ... occasions
arise, when practices countenanced by others do not approve themselves to our ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon iv the praise of.htm

Against Men who Embellish Themselves.
... And, in truth, unless you saw them naked, you would ... wear their hair long, but do
not deck themselves. ... But I approve the simplicity of the barbarians: loving an ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter iii against men who embellish.htm

Of the Use of Reason in Religion; and of Dreams, Auguries, Oracles ...
... Wherefore, since wisdom"that is, the inquiry after truth"is natural to all, they
deprive themselves of wisdom, who without any judgment approve of the ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap viii of the use of.htm