Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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2967831.:"If the righteous be recompensed in the earth, where shall the godless abide?"
29678Am I then to give that which is due to those who treat me unjustly, and say of them, they have done well?"
29678Are we then to overturn what has been said?
29678Are we to live in indolence?
29678But are we a sacrifice with Him?
29678But do you say,"Must God''s word be treated with such shame?"
29678But how can this be?
29678But how comes this?
29678But how do they act to get the gold into their own hands?
29678But how do we attain to this living hope?
29678But how does St. Peter mean that we should sanctify God; how can we sanctify Him; must He not sanctify us?
29678But how does that, where He says that they live, agree with that which he subjoins, that they are dead?
29678But how does this come to pass?
29678But how does this take place?
29678But how has the new birth taken place?
29678But how is that consistent, that the elders should rule, and yet all should be subject one to the other?
29678But how?
29678But if any one says,"Since you are ransomed by Christ, and His blood blots out your sin, what will you blot out by your mode of life?"
29678But perhaps you say,"How?
29678But to what spirits has he preached?
29678But we say, if you yourself take away and blot out your sin, what has Christ then done?
29678But what do they do?
29678But what does St. Peter mean when he says,_ ye are kept by the power of God to salvation_?
29678But what does St. Peter mean, in that he says, refrain from the lusts that war against the soul?
29678But what is it that is offered to us?
29678But what is it to rest upon His righteousness?
29678But what is the divine nature?
29678But what is this seed?
29678But what sort of a faith is this?
29678But what sort of power is it?
29678But what were the elders therefore to do?
29678But what, now, is this offence and perplexity, or stumbling?
29678But why am I to restrain it?
29678But why does Paul separate from one another the power and the coming of Christ?
29678But why does he say then, purify your souls?
29678But why does he say we have a sure word of prophecy?
29678But why does the prophet call Him a foundation stone?
29678But why should we be obedient to the magistracy for God''s sake?
29678But why should we return good for evil?
29678Did the old birth spring from a seed?
29678Do you imagine then that God will tolerate it, that you should thrust Him from His throne and seat yourself in His place?"
29678For how am I to believe on stone and wood?
29678For how can an outward work make the heart inwardly clean?
29678For how is it possible that we poor wretches should be able to deserve such good through our own works as no human reason or sense can conceive?
29678For how is the world benefitted by these things?
29678For then you may answer, Has not God spoken even by an ass?
29678For though not now, yet at death will it come to pass, that the devil will come forward and say,"Why have you charged the Pope as Antichrist?"
29678For what a thing would it be, that you should be cruelly beaten and had well deserved it, yet would glory in your cross?
29678For what is it that is built, if I throw out one stone and see another thrown into its place?
29678For what necessity could there then have been that He should have come down to earth and have shed His blood?
29678For what praise is it, if ye endure buffeting for your faults?
29678For what reason did God permit that to be written?
29678God will not judge by this whether you are_ called_ a Christian, or have been baptized, but will ask you,"_ Art_ thou a Christian?
29678Hast thou been baptized?
29678How can it be possible that one who assuredly believes this, should yet cleave to perishable possessions and lusts?
29678How can they have God''s Spirit if they do not have His word?
29678How is that consistent: has He not offered up Himself?
29678How is this?
29678How then shall not I also endure somewhat if it pleases Him?
29678How?
29678How?
29678If God gives thus to faith a shock that makes it tremble, how can_ he_ abide steadfast who is without faith?
29678If now we bend the knee before a place of worship, or a picture of the holy cross, should we not do it far more before a living temple of God?
29678In order that we may be saved thereby?
29678Is it then a thing not human?
29678Is not all subject to Him?
29678Is then the kingdom not God the Father''s now?
29678Let St. Peter''s bones be holy, yet how does it help you?
29678Now you may say, If that is true, that we are all priests and ought to preach, what sort of an institution is there?
29678Of what advantage is it to embrace the cross in monasteries?
29678Of what concern to Him was it that no suckling should be killed while as yet it sucks milk?
29678Should I then be so base as not to love Him?
29678Should we bear such a_ title_,_ that_ is certainly pitiful; but if the High Majesty also arraigns, curses, and condemns,--who will endure it?
29678So we read in Ezekiel, xxix., of King Nebuchadnezzar, where God says by the prophet,"Knowest thou not that he is My servant, and has served Me?"
29678The pious he gently strokes, and first of all is the rod of kind correction: but what then will be done with those that do not believe?
29678Then God opens the mouth of the beast to speak with the voice of a man, and she said,"What have I done to you that you should strike me so?"
29678Then the ass answered and said,"Am I yet the ass upon which thou hast ridden continually even to this day, and have I done it for no more than this?"
29678Then was the king filled with wrath, and said,"Did I not call thee that thou shouldst curse mine enemies?
29678Therefore Peter says, that such vain, false teachers are to be; but what shall they do?
29678Therefore St. Peter says,_ Hereunto are ye called._ Whereto?
29678Therefore those fools know not what they say, who ask, How can faith alone answer, while many an one believes who yet performs no good work?
29678These words are exceedingly precious; how could He have made them more sweet or tender?
29678Though your child die, though you are sick, it is well if it pleases God; if you are in a state which pleases God, what better can you desire?
29678We ask further, whether he makes a distinction between spiritual and worldly, since the clergy are now called spiritual, and other Christians worldly?
29678What am I to do that I may restrain my sin?
29678What are these shepherds to do?
29678What if I have such a strange and irritable master as no one can thankfully serve, for many such may be found?"
29678What now is the treasure wherewith ye are ransomed?
29678What then am I to do?
29678What then are the praiseworthy things and the noble deeds which God has put forth?
29678What then are we to do?
29678What then?
29678When this reaches my heart, then it_ tastes_; for how can I but receive joy and gladness therefrom?
29678Where then will_ he_ be found who has not faith?
29678Wherefore does St. Peter say,--not, they are adulterers,--but,_ they have eyes full of adultery_?
29678Wherefore should we then be sober and vigilant?
29678Wherewith?
29678While the Master runs upon the spears''points in the conflict, how much more should the servant advance with joy?
29678Who is to endure this and still keep silent?
29678Who, then, will set himself against it, or who will not be terrified by it?
29678Why does He employ so great allurement?
29678Why does the Apostle lay so much stress on the aim of the mind?
29678Why should I subdue my flesh?
29678Why then do Solomon and Peter, as in this passage, say,_ love covers sins_?"
29678Why then does God thus leave us in life and misery?
29678Why then should you not endure it also, when you are nothing but sin?
29678_ And be ye also as living stones, built up into a spiritual house._ How can we build ourselves up?
29678_ And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?_ This passage is also taken from the book of Proverbs, chap.
29678_ And know, first of all, that in the last days there shall come scoffers who walk after their own lusts, and say, Where is the promise of his coming?
29678_ That your prayers be not hindered._ What does St. Peter mean by that?
29678_ Through His glory and virtue._ How does that call come, whereby we are called of God?
29678_ To unfeigned love of the brethren._ To what end, then, are we to live a chastely holy life?
29678_ Whose daughters ye are, if ye do well and stand in fear of no terror._ What does he mean by that?
29678and they remain forever in such doubt,"who knows it,--who knows it?"
29678but how if they were in error?"
29678do you mean to say that virginity, and masses, and the like good works, amount to nothing?
29678he says:"They whose judgment was not to drink the cup, have assuredly drunken, and thinkest thou that thou art he that shall not drink?"
29678how is this?
29678must there then be no distinction among the people, and are the women, also, to be priests?
29678that I may be saved?
29678the world has stood so long and continued to abide, is it now for the first time to be otherwise?"
29678what hast thou now, abiding in thine integrity?
29678what shall I cry?
29678xxi.,"Have ye not read in Scripture,--the stone which the builders rejected is become the corner stone?
29678xxxviii.,"I have said in the midst of my life, I must go down into the grave;"as though they should say,"O Lord God, is death already here?"