The works of charity are commonly spoken of in terms which are principally derived from the Book of the Dead: — " Doing that which is right and hating that which is wrong, I was bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, a refuge... American Church Review - Page 1261882Full view - About this book
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1885 - 348 pages
...stress was laid on truthfulness and benevolence : — I have not altered a story in the telling of it. Doing that which is right, and hating that which is...which I did to him, the great God hath done to me.* We next come to three religions which form a group closely related to one another in several respects.... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 pages
...What I did to men was done in peace, and how I loved God, God and my heart well know. I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a shelter to the stranger. I honored the gods with sacrifices and the dead with offerings. —... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 pages
...What I did to men was done in peace, and how I loved God, God and my heart well know. I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a shelter to the stranger. I honored the gods with sacrifices and the dead with offerings. —... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, John Gardner Wilkinson - Egypt - 1873 - 546 pages
...of the Dead,' which deserve to be quoted : — " I have won for myself God by my love ; I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked ; I have afforded refuge to the forsaken " These almost Scriptural words are often found on Egyptian... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Egypt - 1875 - 624 pages
...of the Dead.' which deserve to be quoted : — " I have won for myself God by my love ; I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked ; I have afforded refuge to the forsaken '' These almost Scriptural words are often found on Egyptian... | |
| Max Duncker - History, Ancient - 1877 - 698 pages
...series of sacrifices), to attend to the animals of the sacred kinds and bury them handsomely, " to give bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and shelter to the wanderer " — the whole life must be a religious service. In their favoured land... | |
| Max Duncker - History, Ancient - 1877 - 608 pages
...series of sacrifices), to attend to the animals of the sacred kinds and bury them handsomely, " to give bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and shelter to the wanderer " — the whole life must be a religious service. In their favoured land... | |
| Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1879 - 714 pages
...commandments were positive as well as negative. On the tombs we find the common formula: "I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, shelter to the stranger."4' In the lamentation at funerals, the mourners see the deceased entering... | |
| Peter Le Page Renouf - Cults - 1880 - 298 pages
...charity are commonly spoken of in terms which are principally derived from the Book of the Dead. " Doing that which is Right and hating that which is...that which I did to him, the great God hath done to me."1 " I was one who did that which was pleasing to his father and his mother; the joy of his brethren,... | |
| 1880 - 606 pages
...funereal inscriptions, full of love and faith in the triumph of good over evil, such as this — " Doing that which is right and hating that which is...that -which I did to him, the great GOD hath done unto me." The Chinese concentrated the authority of GOD in the State and made of the State an image... | |
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