 | George Eliot - 1908
...knew whether he was alive or dead. CHAPTER XXII IT was probably a hard saying to the Pharisees, that " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." And certain ingenious philosophers of our own day must surely take offence... | |
 | Nicholas Amhurst - Literary Collections - 2004 - 500 pages
...upon the purity of those fountains, may rejoice and be glad in it.* We are assur'd in scripture, that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance? If the same rule is to be observed upon earth, how great and extraordinary should the national joy... | |
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there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. 
