...benevolence of Barnabas led him to preach the gospel from pure, disinterested motives. " Having land, he sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." He meant to endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ; and not entangle himself with the affairs...

...brightening road To, wait, than if their own with all his radiance glow'd. * Acts iv. 37. Having land, he sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the Apostles' feet. 0 happy spirits, mark'd by God and man Their messages of love to bear,* What though long since in heaven...

...benevolence of Barnabas led him to preach the gospel from pure, disinterested motives. " Having land, he sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." He meant to endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ ; and not entangle himself with the...

...employed like himself in preaching the Gospel. His companion Barnabas, for example ; l who being " a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, having land,...brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." This is 1 Acts iv. 36. the case of one who of his own choice and free-will devotes himself to the cause...

...the Acts, of one of those very individuals, who, on the commencement of the persecution at Jerusalem, having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet : " Barnabas, a Levite of the country of Cyprus, departed from Jerusalem to Tarsus, for to seek Saul...

...the spirit which it exhibited in one who was afterwards a prominent preacher of the Gospel. " loses, who by the Apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which...brought the money and laid it at the Apostles' feet." Here then we have one characteristic of this good man. He was a liberal man ; forward to do good with...

...feet : and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. And Joses, who by the 36 apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted,...consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, and when the rust of gold and silver has eaten into the heart and flesh of Christian piety itself....

...down at the apostles' feet ; and distribution was made unto every man, according as he had need. And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which...being interpreted, the son of consolation), a Levite, having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet." Nor are we left without...

...made to every man according as he had need." made unlo every ,han according as he had need. 36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of cousolauon,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 36. And Juses. If every disciple relinquished...

...Barnabas, (which is, The son of comfort,) a Levite, of the country of Cyprus, 37. Whereas he had land, he sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet. 32. And ilv. multitude. In this place there are three things commended ; that the faithful were all...