Definition of "forasmuch" []

• Inasmuch, seeing (that). (adverb)
• So far as; with regard to so much as. (adverb)

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• "Therefore, the "forasmuch" does not justify Rome's doctrine of works meriting salvation. before thee -- Obedience to God is in strictest compatibility with loyalty to the king (Mt 22: 21; 1Pe 2: 17)."
• ""forasmuch," &c. is, "as thou sawest that the stone," &c., this is an indication that "the great God," &c., that is, the fact of thy seeing the dreams as I have recalled it to thy recollection, is a proof that it is no airy phantom, but a real representation to these from God of the future."
• "Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or as the School-authors say deserve grace of congruity: yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin."