...conclusiveness, to be used in the figurative sense. For instance, in Luke xii. 49, Jesus says, "I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled? But I have a. baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." The parallel...

...some one of the other sources which supplied him with materials. Luke xii. 49, " I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled ? 50. But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished! 51....

...to be used in the figurative sense. For instance, in Luke xii. 49, Jesus says, "I am .come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." The parallel...

...truth. How broadly and boldly did he state it — in what paradoxes sometimes ! " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled?" "I came not to send peace, but a sword." How unlike was his manner in this respect to a certain cautious...

...sacrifice of life ; how did our Master avow, while he contemplated, these extremities ! " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled ? But I have a baptism to be baptised with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." Fearlessly...

...required ; and to whom men have 49 committed much, of him they will ask the more. 1 am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kin60 died 1 But I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I 51 straitened till it be accomplished...

...punishing fire, for the benefit of the soul, according to the saying of the Lord : ' I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled ?' " On the next clause, " The people shall be as the fuel of the fire," he adds, " This is not a threat...

...the emblem of fire becomes very significant and beautiful. I am come, said our Divine Lord, to send fire on the earth: and what will I if it be already kindled ? And again he asks, Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on the earth ? I tell you, Nay ; but rather...

...time of grace, because it is a fearful thing to die without reconciliation. 49 ^[ *I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I if it be already kindled ? 50 But ' I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I ' straitened till it be accomplished...

...truth. How broadly and boldly did he state it — in what paradoxes sometimes ! " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be already kindled ?" " I came not to send peace, but a sword." How unlike was his manner in this respect to a certain...