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  • Some are at a loss why it is said to the Son, and not O Son: wherefore they fly to Caninius as to an oracle, who tells us, that those very bundles of boughs are called Hosanna; and that these words,

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Pseudo-Jerome: Or Hosanna, that is, save “in the highest” as well as in the lowest, that is, that the just be built on the ruin of Angels, and also that both those on the earth and those under the earth should be saved.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

  • Pseudo-Jerome: They cry out Hosanna, that is, save us, that men might be saved by Him who was blessed, and was a conqueror and came in the name of the Lord, that is, of His Father, since the Father is so called because of the Son, and the Son, because of the Father.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

  • "Hosanna;" and others, who said, "This people who knoweth not the law are cursed," John vii.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Jerusalem, strewed with boughs and branches, and by some there is cried a kind of Hosanna to them that are treading these steps to hell.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • "Hosanna" for Francis, and not a plowman nor tiller of the soil bethought himself that he had fully paid for the snack and sup that night.

    Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

  • Nevertheless -- most queerly -- these four young people confessed to each other all sorts of sensations besides that 'Hosanna' one.

    The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900

  • Nevertheless -- most queerly -- these four young people confessed to each other all sorts of sensations besides that 'Hosanna' one.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Jerusalem that Christ entered riding over a cloak-carpeted way amid the deafening shouts of "Hosanna"?

    The Heart-Cry of Jesus 1898

  • -- "Hosanna" is a Greek form of the Hebrew expression for

    Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

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