Strive to enter in
Therefore it is that our Lord so earnestly exhorts: Enter in at the strait gate. Or (as the same exhortation is elsewhere expressed) Strive to enter in (Luke 13:24). Strive as in an agony. For many, says our Lord, shall seek to enter in, indolently strive, and shall not be able.
1771 text
III. 1. Therefore it is, that our Lord so earnestly exhorts, Enter ye in at the strait gate. Or (as the same exhortation is elsewhere expressed) Strive to enter in. Ἀγωνίζεσθε εἰσελθεῖν. Strive as in an agony. For many, saith our Lord, shall seek to enter in, indolently strive, and shall not be able.
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Sermon 31 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:13-14.
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