...she rejoiced to snffer for righteousness, — bade Artemi remember the injunction of our Saviour, " If a man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other »ho," — and assured him, that if the wicked spared him not even in the temple of God, his wrath...

...treatment I considered it my duty to bear with patience, as I remembered the words of Christ, 'if any man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also.' Before my clothes were dry,. one of the principal actors in this affair came to me to borrow money,...

...she rejoiced to tnffer for righteousness, — bade Artemi remember the injunction of our Saviour, " If a man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also," — and assured him, that if the wicked spared him not even in the temple of God, his wrath would be...

...vexations with so much patience, that they might be said literally to have fulfilled the injunction, " If a man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also." The very want of some resistance to this treatment was, however, a cause of fresh vexation to the Tartars...

...up thy cross and follow me. So if we ask, What lack we yet in meekness ? Christ answers ; " If any man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also." If we ask, Have we not done as much for the poor as Christ requires ? he replies, " Sell that thou...

...bear His name, while thus trampling on His authority and His law ? Listen to His express command — " If a man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other." Now, admitting, that this is not to be understood literally, how would it be possible to reconcile...

...take up thy cross and follow me. So if we ask, What lack we yet in meekness ? Christ answers, " If any man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also." If we ask, Have we not done as much for the poor as Christ requires? he replies, "Sell that thou hast...

...Is it so ? It may aid our enquiry to trace the results of a literal and rigorous interpretation. " If a man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also." Permit, yea, court the second blow, by presenting the other cheek. " If a man will sue thee at law,...

...parable of the good Samaritan ; or the providential history of the Jews ; or the exhortation, " If any man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also ; " or the embodiment in Scripture of Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians, or Timothy, present modes...

...gentleness. It is that spirit of non-resistance enjoined on his disciples by our Lord, when he said, " If any man smite thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also." Some things may seem like it but are not it. That indecision which has no opinion when those are present...