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- n. Plural form of firstfruit.
- n. Offering of the first of the harvest.
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“The firstfruits, that is, the first of all crops, were also offered to God.”
“He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“Um ... not sure what all that "firstfruits" and "Ingathering" stuff is about, but I like the part about driving out nations and protecting my turf.”
“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“It is passing strange that He should love us so much, and wish to unveil Himself to us, 'that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.”
“It is the "firstfruits" in connection with the Harvest (Rev.xiv. 4); and not the "Head" in relation to the members.”
“Word of Truth that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures, ”
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
“Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“| Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“In some sense, it seems possible-necessary even-to conceptualize these "firstfruits" (ho aparchen ho pneumatos: literally, the first fruit of the spirit) as the explosion of our current ideas of God into something unanticipated, new, primary, harvested.”
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