nursing father

noun

1. a biblical name for foster father

Example Sentences

And must we own him to be a nursing father to the church?

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You, our nursing father, occupy a perpetual seat, being dead, and deserving an end of your great dangers.

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Under such a nursing father the interests of the kingdom of Christ fared as might have been expected.

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What harm the excess thereof brought to the Church perhaps was not found by experience till the days of Constantine; who, out of his zeal, thinking he could be never too liberally a nursing father of the Church, might be not unfitly said to have either overlaid it or choked it in the nursing.

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The truth and faith which the great Father has put in the heart of the child, makes him the nursing father of the fatherhood in his father; and thus in part it is, that the children of men will come at last to know the great Father.

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