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  • Those non-Jews, those Christians, that we called the "Righteous Gentiles," whose selfless acts of heroism saved the honor of their faith.†   (source)
  • He resembled a gentile lost in a fog, wearing a suede touring cap and a double-breasted raincoat with epaulets, gun flaps, raglan sleeves, he knows these terms from years in dry cleaning, broad-welt pockets, belt loops, sleeve straps and so many buttons he felt dressed for life.†   (source)
  • A Jewish moshiach will bring the Jews back to Israel and set up a government in Jerusalem that's the center of political power for the world, for both Jews and Gentiles.†   (source)
  • Most of the stores were run by gentiles, but some were owned by Orthodox Jews, members of the Hasidic sects in the area.†   (source)
  • Holy Christ-I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that, I'm not a gentile.†   (source)
  • Suppose I told you that somebody with a name like Landau couldn't be anything but a fat, hook-nosed, miserly pawnbroker out to cheat trusting Gentiles.†   (source)
  • ..."When the Gospel says that in the Kingdom of God there are neither Jews nor Gentiles, does it merely mean that all are equal in the sight of God?†   (source)
  • The Bible records Jesus instructing his twelve apostles to teach the Jews and Paul to teach the gentiles.
  • Jews often suffered discrimination in gentile institutions in those days.
    gentile = a person who is not Jewish; or who is Christian
  • For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,   (source)
  • These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans."   (source)
  • Father's stamp collection and Mother's silver were hidden with Gentile, non-Jewish friends.†   (source)
  • There were some gentile Poles who also saw new opportunities.†   (source)
  • The movie was terrible, worse than I'd expected, the kind of movie only a gentile would see.†   (source)
  • You're not marching into any gentile church.†   (source)
  • Don't go into that gentile church" he said.†   (source)
  • She was the only person I'd met at the university who didn't seem like a gentile.†   (source)
  • A Jewish woman was falsely accused of kidnapping a gentile boy.†   (source)
  • On August 11, 1945, rioting broke out when a gentile boy claimed that Jews were trying to kill him.†   (source)
  • That gentile school won't teach you anything you can use," he scoffed.†   (source)
  • Dad said there were gentiles everywhere—that most Mormons were gentiles, they just didn't know it.†   (source)
  • At Schindler's factory, my father picked up rumors about the war from the gentile workers.†   (source)
  • Boys If there was one thing Tateh didn't like more than gentiles, it was black folks.†   (source)
  • The Germans—or rather, their Jewish and Gentile slaves—had been hard at work that winter.†   (source)
  • There were eleven of us at the table that day, including a Jewish lady who had arrived the night before and a Gentile woman and her small daughter, members of our underground, who acted as "escorts."†   (source)
  • Eusebius Gentile Mossel.†   (source)
  • I thought about Shannon's tank and pajamas, and suddenly realized that probably everyone at BYU was a gentile.†   (source)
  • Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone.†   (source)
  • I was actually forbidden to play with her because she was a gentile, but I'd sneak over to her house anyway and sneak her over to mine.†   (source)
  • He also made arrangements with his gentile friend Wojek to sell a few of his fine suits on the black market.†   (source)
  • There was scarcely a person in the church that Dad hadn't called a gentile—for visiting a doctor or for sending their kids to the public school—but that day he seemed to forget about California socialism and the Illuminati.†   (source)
  • Of course my parents wouldn't go to that gentile graduation, so I put on my cap and gown and walked the six blocks to Suffolk High School alone and waited for Frances in the parking lot.†   (source)
  • We found Wojek, the kind gentile who had sold my father's suits, and we connected with a former neighbor on Przemyslowa Street.†   (source)
  • I could "pass" as a gentile because I was still young enough not to have to wear the identifying Star of David.†   (source)
  • But here, in this loud, bright place, surrounded by gentiles disguised as saints, I clung to every truth, every doctrine he had given me.†   (source)
  • I could only imagine how painful that must have been, having to leave the only real home she ever had at age seventeen, her mother gone, her father with a gentile woman, her brother in the war, her sister disappeared; being completely helpless as the pillars of her life fell away like toothpicks.†   (source)
  • The young Jewish girl who at one time could not allow herself to walk into a gentile church now couldn't do without it; her Orthodox Jewish ways had long since translated themselves into full-blown Christianity.†   (source)
  • I understood now: I could stand with my family, or with the gentiles, on the one side or the other, but there was no foothold in between.†   (source)
  • As my mother and I walked together, I could imagine my gentile friends nearby, still going to school, still playing the streetcar game, but I did not lift my eyes even for a quick peek.†   (source)
  • I'd seen women dressed this way before—Dad called them gentiles—and I'd always avoided getting too near them, as if their immorality might be catching.†   (source)
  • He would rather pay for us to study privately than to go to school with gentiles, but the law was the law, so I had to go to school with the white folks.†   (source)
  • A gentile Pole I met there spoke of how one young Jew had tried to run, but, as he said, "one of ours"—in other words, a non-Jewspotted him and reported him to the SS, who shot him immediately.†   (source)
  • Rumors circulated that emaciated Jews returning from the camps were using gentile children's blood for transfusions, a revival of the ancient accusation known as blood libel.†   (source)
  • My father, ever ingenious, found a way to trade our apartment for one a gentile friend had inside the ghetto, hoping the swap might provide better accommodations than any the Nazis would arrange.†   (source)
  • Ropes went up inside the streetcars, designating seating for gentiles—non-Jewish Poles—in the front of the cars and for Jews in the rear.†   (source)
  • In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles.†   (source)
  • Danny and I probably would never have met—or we would have met under altogether different circumstances—had it not been for America's entry into the Second World War and the desire this bred on the part of some English teachers in the Jewish parochial schools to show the gentile world that yeshiva students were as physically fit, despite their long hours of study, as any other American student.†   (source)
  • Like Gulliver among the Hounyhnhnms, I had rather thought myself a unique figure in this huge Semitic arrondissement and was simply taken aback that Yetta's house should shelter another Gentile.†   (source)
  • On Saturdays, too, when good Gentiles were mowing their lawns or shopping at Sol Nachman's department store.†   (source)
  • It was this ...She and her fellow Gentiles acquired a classification which paradoxically removed them from the immediately death-bound.†   (source)
  • The bar was beginning to fill up with its gray evening habitués—most of them middle-aged and male, porridge-faced even in midsummer, North European Gentiles with flabby paunches and serious thirsts who ran the elevators and unplugged the plumbing of the ten-story Jewish pueblos whose homely beige-brick ranks stretched for block after block in the region behind the park.†   (source)
  • Francie had been told that he had one vat from which he sold only to Gentiles.†   (source)
  • And once she told him that she was sure the good Lord would not be angry at her if she did steal a little from Esau's heritage-the earth and the fields are Esau's heritage-since Esau himself, she said, was stealing from Isaac on every sideshe meant all the new stores that were being opened by the other gentiles in our town.†   (source)
  • Ah'm de Apostle Paul tuh de Gentiles.†   (source)
  • I am lost when I balance this against that, I am lost when I ask if this is safe, I am lost when I ask if men, white men or black men, Englishmen or Afrikaners, Gentiles or Jews, will approve.†   (source)
  • Whether the hero be ridiculous or sublime, Greek or barbarian, gentile or Jew, his journey varies little in essential plan.†   (source)
  • Once, in the cherry time, when Gant's great White Wax was loaded with its clusters, and the pliant and enduring boughs were dotted thickly by the neighbor children, Jews and Gentiles alike, who had been herded under the captaincy of Luke, and picked one quart of every four for their own, one of these whitehaired children had come doubtfully, mournfully, up the yard.†   (source)
  • Abraham let some of it slip from him while he was in Egypt, and that is why this sublime wisdom can now be found in reduced form in the myths and philosophies of the gentiles.†   (source)
  • And Dr. Aaron Aaronstein was not embarrassed about her emotionalism the way a Gentile doctor would have been.†   (source)
  • I the Lord have called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles To open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.†   (source)
  • The idea that those Goyem thought him man enough to be capable of thinking about any girl, Gentile or Jew, staggered him and he went his way saying gol-lee over and over.†   (source)
  • Our elaborate sanitary code makes us unduly contemptuous of the Gentile.†   (source)
  • Trouble between the Mormons and the Gentiles of the community would make her unhappy.†   (source)
  • And his position, apparently as a Gentile, among these Mormons was one open to criticism.†   (source)
  • Our girls and boys are growing up influenced by the Gentiles among us.†   (source)
  • You can thank your Gentile friends for that.†   (source)
  • But, Elder, I don't love the Mormon children any less because I love a Gentile child.†   (source)
  • I told them right out that you'd been a Gentile clergyman—that you'd gone back on your religion.†   (source)
  • I conceived an idea that I never mentioned—I thought she was at heart more Gentile than Mormon.†   (source)
  • Why, John, I'd turn Gentile," he said, with terrible softness.†   (source)
  • It was an unobtrusive, almost secret aid which she rendered to the Gentile families of the village.†   (source)
  • He never had any use for me or any Gentile.†   (source)
  • She had adopted a beautiful Gentile child named Fay Larkin.†   (source)
  • Did you ever know or hear of a Gentile prospering in a Mormon community?†   (source)
  • It's Judkins, your Gentile rider!" he cried.†   (source)
  • I'm the only Gentile who knows about it.†   (source)
  • It's not that you're a Gentile, though, for all the women are crazy about you.†   (source)
  • Jane's various calls and wandering steps at length led her to the Gentile quarter of the village.†   (source)
  • But—Jane Withersteen, the child is a Gentile!†   (source)
  • Unquestionably the Mormons were wrong, but were not the Gentiles still more wrong?†   (source)
  • Mormons broke it openly; Gentiles broke it secretly.†   (source)
  • An' I heard it from a Gentile, a rider who said you'd know where to tell me to find—†   (source)
  • She was Mormon-born, and she was a friend to poor and unfortunate Gentiles.†   (source)
  • It's a hard country for any one, but hardest for Gentiles.†   (source)
  • I've knowed Mormons who pretended to be Gentiles.†   (source)
  • Think of what they've done to the Gentiles here, to me—think of Milly Erne's fate!†   (source)
  • "Whom Pagans and unbelieving Gentiles call Duke of Buckingham," replied Milady.†   (source)
  • who forgets the desolation of Judah, and looks upon the comeliness of a Gentile and a stranger?†   (source)
  • In his eyes the uncircumcised Gentile is as worthy favor as a Jew of the strictest habit.†   (source)
  • "Nay, but," said the Rabbi, "thou speakest as one that knoweth not the Gentiles.†   (source)
  • A Gentile may smile at the answer; but so will not a son of Israel.†   (source)
  • Because it had not been the sickly and mystagogic Beatrice whom the poet had honored in his poem with the title of "donna gentile e pietosa," but rather his wife, the embodiment of this-worldly knowledge and practical, lifelong labor.†   (source)
  • These Gentiles, this rancher Holderness and this outlaw Dene, have driven my cattle, killed my sheep, piped my water off my fields.†   (source)
  • Always an elaborately careful worker, a maker of long rows of figures, always realizing the presence of uncontrollable variables, always a vicious assailant of what he considered slackness or lie or pomposity, never too kindly to well-intentioned stupidity, he worked in the laboratories of Koch, of Pasteur, he followed the early statements of Pearson in biometrics, he drank beer and wrote vitriolic letters, he voyaged to Italy and England and Scandinavia, and casually, between two days, he married (as he might have bought a coat or hired a housekeeper) the patient and wordless daughter of a Gentile merchant.†   (source)
  • Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.†   (source)
  • childhood's days; pictures which, simply because it was the old Combray that traced their outlines upon my mind before it vanished, are as moving—if I may compare a humble landscape with those glorious works, reproductions of which my grandmother was so fond of bestowing on me—as those old engravings of the 'Cenacolo,' or that painting by Gentile Bellini, in which one sees, in a state in which they no longer exist, the masterpiece of Leonardo and the portico of Saint Mark's.†   (source)
  • Her interest in Gentiles earned the displeasure of her churchmen, and as she was proud there came a breach.†   (source)
  • He was likewise a poet of distinction, who in his leisure hours penned narratives in the most elegant Tuscan prose—a virtuoso in the idioma gentile," Settembrini said, rocking his head back and forth and taking utmost pleasure in letting the native syllables melt on his tongue.†   (source)
  • Well, if you're like the other Gentiles who have come into Utah you won't have scruples about drawing on a man.†   (source)
  • Most of the Gentiles lately come in have money, and some of us Mormons have a bag or two of gold, but scarcely any of it gets into circulation.†   (source)
  • Strikingly it had come to him that the fault he had found in Gentile religion he now found in the Mormon religion.†   (source)
  • Mormons acknowledged all their wives and protected their children; Gentiles acknowledged one wife only.†   (source)
  • The sacrifice offered by Ruth and Joe would have been noble under any circumstances had they been Gentiles or persons with no particular religion, but, considering that they were Mormons, that Ruth had been a sealed-wife, that Joe had been brought up under the strange, secret, and binding creed, their action was no less than tremendous in its import.†   (source)
  • Before, he had often, without explanation, advised Jane to send Fay back to any Gentile family that would take her in.†   (source)
  • I know," went on Venters, tauntingly, "it galls you, the idea of beautiful Jane Withersteen being friendly to a poor Gentile.†   (source)
  • Well, as I told you, back here a ways a Gentile said Jane Withersteen could tell me about Milly Erne an' show me her grave!†   (source)
  • Her relatives and friends, and later a horde of Mormon and Gentile suitors, had fanned the flame of natural vanity in her.†   (source)
  • This was at the extreme southern end, and here some thirty Gentile families lived in huts and shacks and log-cabins and several dilapidated cottages.†   (source)
  • Seven Mormons all packin' guns, an' a Gentile tied with a rope, an' a woman who swears by his honesty!†   (source)
  • Fay had few playmates, for among the Gentile children there were none near her age, and the Mormon children were forbidden to play with her.†   (source)
  • "I haven't the slightest idea who the Mormon was," replied Venters; "nor has any Gentile in Cottonwoods."†   (source)
  • You don't want him hanged or shot—or treated worse, as that Gentile boy was treated in Glaze for fooling round a Mormon woman.†   (source)
  • Some Gentile feller at last told Venters he'd find Tull in that long buildin' next to Parsons's store.†   (source)
  • Glaze—Stone Bridge—Sterling, villages to the north, had risen against the invasion of Gentile settlers and the forays of rustlers.†   (source)
  • Tell me, is he Mormon or Gentile?†   (source)
  • A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent and attack her right to befriend a Gentile.†   (source)
  • If her faith were justified, if her churchmen were trying only to intimidate her, the fact would soon be manifest, as would their failure, and then she would redouble her zeal toward them and toward what had been the best work of her life—work for the welfare and happiness of those among whom she lived, Mormon and Gentile alike.†   (source)
  • There was the night ride of Tull's, which, viewed in the light of subsequent events, had a look of his covert machinations; Oldring and his Masked Rider and his rustlers riding muffled horses; the report that Tull had ridden out that morning with his man Jerry on the trail to Glaze, the strange disappearance of Jane Withersteen's riders, the unusually determined attempt to kill the one Gentile still in her employ, an intention frustrated, no doubt, only by Judkin's magnificent riding of her racer, and lastly the driving of the red herd.†   (source)
  • You've so much love to throw away on these beggars of Gentiles that I've an idea you might love Venters.†   (source)
  • Equally as difficult was the task of deceiving the Gentiles, for they were as proud as they were poor.†   (source)
  • As it made Jane happy to go among her own people, so it saddened her to come in contact with these Gentiles.†   (source)
  • In this here country all the rustlers an' thieves an' cut-throats an' gun-throwers an' all-round no-good men jest happen to be Gentiles.†   (source)
  • While her Mormon riders were in her employ she had found few Gentiles who would stay with her, and now she was able to find employment for all the men and boys.†   (source)
  • But for her invention of numberless kinds of employment, for which there was no actual need, these families of Gentiles, who had failed in a Mormon community, would have starved.†   (source)
  • The special distinction of the men was that they were chosen by the Lord, each for a divine purpose; and that they were Gentiles does not lessen their glory.†   (source)
  • But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph Smith's bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West.†   (source)
  • Quel ch'ella par quand' un poco sorride, Non si pub dicer, ne tener a mente, Si e nuovo miracolo gentile.†   (source)
  • "We have here among us, my friends," says Chadband, "a Gentile and a heathen, a dweller in the tents of Tom-all-Alone's and a mover-on upon the surface of the earth.†   (source)
  • These Gentiles, cruel and oppressive as they are, are in some sort dependent on the dispersed children of Zion, whom they despise and persecute.†   (source)
  • The children of Jacob are not much given to Gentile sports, which are too often accursed in the sight of the Lord.†   (source)
  • "Father Abraham!" said Isaac of York, when the first course was run betwixt the Templar and the Disinherited Knight, "how fiercely that Gentile rides!†   (source)
  • Simonides went on: "Balthasar is a wise man who has been wonderfully favored for a Gentile, and his faith becomes him; yet she makes a jest of it.†   (source)
  • Our harps we left by Babel's streams, The tyrant's jest, the Gentile's scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn.†   (source)
  • Had he been a Gentile, and lived, the world might have heard of him as the rival of Herodes Atticus: as it was, he perished at sea some ten years before this second period of our story, in the prime of life, and lamented everywhere in Judea.†   (source)
  • —he is a Christian, and by our law we may not deal with the stranger and Gentile, save for the advantage of our commerce.†   (source)
  • They were unquestionably a sect, yet their religion was more a philosophy than a creed; they did not deny themselves the enjoyments of life, and saw many admirable methods and productions among the Gentile divisions of the race.†   (source)
  • —Jew or Gentile, thy fate would be the same; for thou hast to do with them that have neither scruple nor pity.†   (source)
  • "Speak not so, my dear father," replied Rebecca; "we may not indeed mix with them in banquet and in jollity; but in wounds and in misery, the Gentile becometh the Jew's brother."†   (source)
  • She spoke in the language almost lost in the land, but which a few—and they were always as rich in blood as in possessions—cherished in its purity, that they might be more certainly distinguished from Gentile peoples—the language in which the loved Rebekah and Rachel sang to Benjamin.†   (source)
  • —But it was always so with Jew or Gentile, whosoever came near her—none could stay when she had an errand to go—and still, whenever I think of her, I would give shop and tools to save her life.†   (source)
  • The question proceeded from the younger of the friends, and was couched in Greek, at the time, singularly enough, the language everywhere prevalent in the politer circles of Judea; having passed from the palace into the camp and college; thence, nobody knew exactly when or how, into the Temple itself, and, for that matter, into precincts of the Temple far beyond the gates and cloisters—precincts of a sanctity intolerable for a Gentile.†   (source)
  • Then, as if suspicion had overpowered his other feelings, he suddenly exclaimed, "For the love of God, young man, betray me not—for the sake of the Great Father who made us all, Jew as well as Gentile, Israelite and Ishmaelite—do me no treason!†   (source)
  • God never seemed so actual and so near by; it was as if he were there bending over them or sitting at their side—a Friend whose favors were to be had by the most unceremonious asking—a Father to whom all his children were alike in love—Father, not more of the Jew than of the Gentile—the Universal Father, who needed no intermediates, no rabbis, no priests, no teachers.†   (source)
  • "Nay," answered Rebecca, "I will but pray of thee to believe henceforward that a Jew may do good service to a Christian, without desiring other guerdon than the blessing of the Great Father who made both Jew and Gentile."†   (source)
  • Where this fortune was joined to undoubted lineal descent from some famous son of one of the tribes, especially Judah, the happy individual was accounted a Prince of Jerusalem—a distinction which sufficed to bring him the homage of his less favored countrymen, and the respect, if nothing more, of the Gentiles with whom business and social circumstance brought him into dealing.†   (source)
  • Lingering there a moment, the eye resumed its climbing, going next to the Gentiles' Court, then to the Israelites' Court, then to the Women's Court, then to the Court of the Priests, each a pillared tier of white marble, one above the other in terraced retrocession; over them all a crown of crowns infinitely sacred, infinitely beautiful, majestic in proportions, effulgent with beaten gold—lo!†   (source)
  • "Nevertheless," said Gurth, again laying down his head on the wooden log which served him for a pillow, "both Jew and Gentile must be content to abide the opening of the great gate—we suffer no visitors to depart by stealth at these unseasonable hours."†   (source)
  • One Nazarene warrior might indeed bear arms in my behalf, even Wilfred, son of Cedric, whom the Gentiles call Ivanhoe.†   (source)
  • Rebecca, however erroneously taught to interpret the promises of Scripture to the chosen people of Heaven, did not err in supposing the present to be their hour of trial, or in trusting that the children of Zion would be one day called in with the fulness of the Gentiles.†   (source)
  • "It is well known unto me," said Isaac; "the Gentiles deliver this Lucas Beaumanoir as a man zealous to slaying for every point of the Nazarene law; and our brethren have termed him a fierce destroyer of the Saracens, and a cruel tyrant to the Children of the Promise."†   (source)
  • But do thou, brother, return to me as if it were to the house of thy father, and bring me word how it has sped with thee; and well do I hope thou wilt bring with thee Rebecca, even the scholar of the wise Miriam, whose cures the Gentiles slandered as if they had been wrought by necromancy.†   (source)
  • The physician read, but in their native language, the following words:— "To Isaac, the son of Adonikam, whom the Gentiles call Isaac of York, peace and the blessing of the promise be multiplied unto thee!†   (source)
  • We must now change the scene to the village of Ashby, or rather to a country house in its vicinity belonging to a wealthy Israelite, with whom Isaac, his daughter, and retinue, had taken up their quarters; the Jews, it is well known, being as liberal in exercising the duties of hospitality and charity among their own people, as they were alleged to be reluctant and churlish in extending them to those whom they termed Gentiles, and whose treatment of them certainly merited little hospitality at their hand.†   (source)
  • "Tribu" were possibly gentile groups, united by common descent, and included individuals connected by marriage.†   (source)
  • —A merchant, Stephen said, is one who buys cheap and sells dear, jew or gentile, is he not?†   (source)
  • How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?†   (source)
  • —A new apostle to the gentiles, says the citizen.†   (source)
  • And snug in their spooncase of purple plush, faded, the twelve apostles having preached to all the gentiles: world without end.†   (source)
  • Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile.†   (source)
  • Light to the gentiles.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XLV — OF DAEMONOLOGY, AND OTHER RELIQUES OF THE RELIGION OF THE GENTILES†   (source)
  • And thus you see how the Religion of the Gentiles was a part of their Policy.†   (source)
  • 10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.†   (source)
  • When Don Quixote saw it, rendered in such lifelike style that one would have said Christ was speaking and Paul answering, "This," he said, "was in his time the greatest enemy that the Church of God our Lord had, and the greatest champion it will ever have; a knight-errant in life, a steadfast saint in death, an untiring labourer in the Lord's vineyard, a teacher of the Gentiles, whose school was heaven, and whose instructor and master was Jesus Christ himself."†   (source)
  • gathering flowers,
    Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis
    Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain
    To seek her through the world; nor that sweet grove
    Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired
    Castalian spring, might with this Paradise
    Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle
    Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham,
    Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove,
    Hid Amalthea, and her florid son
    Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye;
    Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard,
    Mount Amara, though this by some supposed
    True Paradise under the Ethiop line
    By Nilus' head, enclosed with shining rock,
    A whole day's journey high, but wide remote
    From this Assyria†   (source)
  • Now, by my hood, a Gentile, and no Jew.†   (source)
  • But for the Gentiles, 'tis no wonder; because Diseases, and Health; Vices, and Vertues; and many naturall accidents, were with them termed, and worshipped as Daemons.†   (source)
  • And therefore shall not Moses, though of God
    Highly beloved, being but the minister
    Of law, his people into Canaan lead;
    But Joshua, whom the Gentiles Jesus call,
    His name and office bearing, who shall quell
    The adversary-Serpent, and bring back
    Through the world's wilderness long-wandered Man
    Safe to eternal Paradise of rest.†   (source)
  • For therein is the righteousnesse of God revealed from faith to faith;" from the faith of the Jew, to the faith of the Gentile.†   (source)
  • where it is said, "Tell it to the Church, and if hee neglect to hear the Church, let him be to thee as a Gentile, or Publican.†   (source)
  • The same also is to be observed in Baptisme: for to a converted Jew, or Gentile, the Apostles had not the Power to deny Baptisme; nor to grant it to the Un-penitent.†   (source)
  • It resteth therefore, that it was left in it, by not destroying the Images themselves, in the conversion of the Gentiles that worshipped them.†   (source)
  • For the Conversion of the Gentiles, there was no use of alledging the Scriptures, which they beleeved not.†   (source)
  • And many times in the Idolatry of the Gentiles there was little regard to the similitude of their Materiall Idoll to the Idol in their fancy, and yet it was called the Image of it.†   (source)
  • Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the Word of God should first have been spoken to you, but seeing you put it from you, and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life, loe, we turn to the Gentiles.†   (source)
  • The Gentiles worshipped for Gods, Jupiter, and others; that living, were men perhaps that had done great and glorious Acts; and for the Children of God, divers men and women, supposing them gotten between an Immortall Deity, and a mortall man.†   (source)
  • Of the former sort, were all the Founders of Common-wealths, and the Law-givers of the Gentiles: Of the later sort, were Abraham, Moses, and our Blessed Saviour; by whom have been derived unto us the Lawes of the Kingdome of God.†   (source)
  • Another relique of Gentilisme, is the Worship of Images, neither instituted by Moses in the Old, nor by Christ in the New Testament; nor yet brought in from the Gentiles; but left amongst them, after they had given their names to Christ.†   (source)
  • But our Saviour was sent to perswade the Jews to return to, and to invite the Gentiles, to receive the Kingdome of his Father, and not to reign in Majesty, no not, as his Fathers Lieutenant, till the day of Judgment.†   (source)
  • But here, the Apostles aime onely at the benefit of the converted Gentiles, namely their Salvation; not at their own benefit; for having done their endeavour, they shall have their reward, whether they be obeyed, or not.†   (source)
  • For it is not enough to say, God can transubstantiate the Bread into Christs Body: For the Gentiles also held God to be Omnipotent; and might upon that ground no lesse excuse their Idolatry, by pretending, as well as others, as transubstantiation of their Wood, and Stone into God Almighty.†   (source)
  • The same authors of the Religion of the Gentiles, observing the second ground for Religion, which is mens Ignorance of causes; and thereby their aptnesse to attribute their fortune to causes, on which there was no dependence at all apparent, took occasion to obtrude on their ignorance, in stead of second causes, a kind of second and ministeriall Gods; ascribing the cause of Foecundity, to Venus; the cause of Arts, to Apollo; of Subtilty and Craft, to Mercury; of Tempests and stormes, to Aeolus; and of other effects, to other Gods: insomuch as there was amongst the Heathen almost as great variety of Gods, as of businesse.†   (source)
  • That they are Spirits, is often repeated: but by the name of Spirit, is signified both in Scripture, and vulgarly, both amongst Jews, and Gentiles, sometimes thin Bodies; as the Aire, the Wind, the Spirits Vitall, and Animall, of living creatures; and sometimes the Images that rise in the fancy in Dreams, and Visions; which are not reall Substances, but accidents of the brain; yet when God raiseth them supernaturally, to signifie his Will, they are not unproperly termed Gods Messengers, that is to say, his Angels.†   (source)
  • And to the Worship, which naturally men conceived fit to bee used towards their Gods, namely Oblations, Prayers, Thanks, and the rest formerly named; the same Legislators of the Gentiles have added their Images, both in Picture, and Sculpture; that the more ignorant sort, (that is to say, the most part, or generality of the people,) thinking the Gods for whose representation they were made, were really included, and as it were housed within them, might so much the more stand in feare of them: And endowed them with lands, an†   (source)
  • Before our Saviour preached, it was the generall Religion of the Gentiles, to worship for Gods, those Apparences that remain in the Brain from the impression of externall Bodies upon the organs of their Senses, which are commonly called Ideas, Idols, Phantasmes, Conceits, as being Representations of those externall Bodies, which cause them, and have nothing in them of reality, no more than there is in the things tha†   (source)
  • There is another conjecture drawn from the Ceremonies of the Gentiles, in a certain case that rarely happens; and that is, when a man that was thought dead, chanced to recover, other men made scruple to converse with him, as they would doe to converse with a Ghost, unlesse hee were received again into the number of men, by Washing, as Children new born were washed from the uncleannesse of their nativity, which was a kind of new birth.†   (source)
  • From hence it is, that in all Dominions, where the Popes Ecclesiasticall power is entirely received, Jewes, Turkes, and Gentiles, are in the Roman Church tolerated in their Religion, as farre forth, as in the exercise and profession thereof they offend not against the civill power: whereas in a Christian, though a stranger, not to be of the Roman Religion, is Capitall; because the Pope pretendeth that all Christians are his Subjects.†   (source)
  • For though they were called Synagogues, that is to say, Congregations of the People; yet in as much as the Law was every Sabbath day read, expounded, and disputed in them, they differed not in nature, but in name onely from Publique Schools; and were not onely in Jerusalem, but in every City of the Gentiles, where the Jews inhabited.†   (source)
  • And I will also take of them for Priests and for Levites, saith the Lord:" Whereby it is manifest, that the chief seat of Gods Kingdome (which is the Place, from whence the Salvation of us that were Gentiles, shall proceed) shall be Jerusalem; And the same is also confirmed by our Saviour, in his discourse with the woman of Samaria, concerning the place of Gods worship; to whom he saith, John 4.22.†   (source)
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