In a superior manner, in a more excellent way, more fully, more completely.
More good, more excellent, good in a higher degree.
But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and moreover, I show to you a more excellent way.
But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also mediator of a better covenant, which has been established upon better promises.
But the Lord hath showed us “a more excellent way,” though it may be despicable to men.
God hath not given you such things as the world go mad after, but envy them not, he hath given you better things, more real and substantial things, that make you far better and more excellent.
There are some workings of the Spirit of God that are but introductory and subservient to more excellent works, and, therefore, they are transient, not appointed to continue long, for they are not his great intendment.
He answered, I am more excellent than he: thou hast created me of fire, and hast created him of clay.
He answered, I am more excellent than he: thou hast created me of fire, and thou hast created him of clay.
But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And knowest His [God's] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.
The true way to serve them is to stand apart from them in the power of communion with God, and thus show them the pattern of a more excellent way.
All this is, in type, set forth in Abel's "more excellent sacrifice.
Whatever the prophets knew by revelation of the mysteries of grace, was revealed in a more excellent way to the angels.
Therefore there is not given to us a more excellent knowledge of God by grace.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
For "to move and to act is more excellent than to be passive," as Augustine says (Gen.
For there is no more excellent operation in man than that of the senses, except the intellective operation.
Accordingly the will is simply more excellent than the sensitive appetite: but in respect of the man in whom a passion is predominant, in so far as he is subject to that passion, the sensitive appetite is more excellent.
Covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Therefore it does not conduce to a more excellent charity, rather does it dispose one to a lower degree.
First, because the offering is more excellent, since it is a spiritual gift, which surpasses a corporal gift, according to Prov.
Christ is said to be according to the order of Melchisedech not as though the latter were a more excellent priest, but because he foreshadowed the excellence of Christ's over the Levitical priesthood.
I answer that, To have any good thing of oneself is more excellent than to have it from another, for "what is of itself a cause is always more excellent than what is a cause through another," as is said Phys.
There is also another mode, which does not place the unindigent before the indigent, but considers that which is indigent of a more excellent nature, as subsisting secondary to that which is more excellent.
For it is evident that there must be, since this will be a more excellent nature, and that which is self-moved, so far as it moves itself, is more excellent than so far as it is moved.
Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move, we seek a more excellent symmetry.
Beyond their sensuous delight, the forms and colors of Nature have a new charm for us in our perception, that not one ornament was added for ornament, but is a sign of some better health, or more excellent action.
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