supererogation

• All the same I cannot help thinking their services are a matter of supererogation, for a recalcitrant Irish tenant in the South and West needs instruction in no branch of villainy. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
• To do more was supererogation, and ought to be credited to zeal In a short time I found that these Confederates worked their escape through the use of gold supplied them by their sympathizers in bribing the guards. —  Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
• Concerning the fallacy of this doctrine the author has written (_The Great Apostasy_, 9:15), in this wise: "This doctrine of supererogation is as unreasonable as it is unscriptural and untrue. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
• As to "supererogation" see page 590 herein 1513] "The Great Apostasy," chaps. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
• From the Christian standpoint there are no works of supererogation, and there is no room in the Christian life for excess or margin. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics

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