Voices and influences
Leonhard Dober
A potter of Herrnhut and the first missionary the renewed Moravian church sent out, to the slaves of St Thomas in 1732; afterwards Chief Elder of Herrnhut.
Summary
This site quotes Leonhard Dober 4 times across 3 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1706 to 1766.
- Quoted here most in Romans: 2 of 4.
Leonhard Dober
- Lived
- 1706 to 1766
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- Moravian Brethren
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4 of 4 quotations
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“I leave my proposal to the decision of the Congregation, and have no other reason to urge it but this,—that I think there are yet souls on that island who cannot believe, because they have never heard.”
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Romans 10:14 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? BSB
“I know the grace of Christ myself, and I know that in St. Thomas there are slaves who cannot believe because they have not heard. If another Brother will go with me, I am ready to become a slave myself.”
Letter of 16 June 1732, in J. E. Hutton, A History of Moravian Missions, page 21
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Romans 10:14 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? BSB
“Yet I felt greatly ashamed, that my situation should be so different from my intended plan, which had been to be a slave in St.”
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The rest of the quotation
Thomas: and the whole manner of living was to me so strange and new, that I often felt much depression of spirits on that account.
1 Corinthians 9:19 Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. BSB
“I entreat you dearest Brethren to think of me, and to pray for me, that I may be enabled to continue to fight the good fight, to which I am called in the Gospel, and which I am engaged in, proving faithful unto death.”
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1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Leonhard Dober 4 times across 3 books.
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A potter of Herrnhut and the first missionary the renewed Moravian church sent out, to the slaves of St Thomas in 1732; afterwards Chief Elder of Herrnhut.
4 quotations across 3 books
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