Definition of "partakers" [partakers]

• Plural form of partaker. (noun)

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• "It is a meetness for the inheritance: "He hath made us meet to be partakers, that is, suited and fitted us for the heavenly state by a proper temper and habit of soul; and he makes us meet by the powerful influence of his Spirit.""
• "He who so greatly surpasseth in perils, calleth them "partakers," who endured no part of them whatever [397]; whilst of the comfort he ascribeth the whole cause to them, not to his own labors."
• "Observe how he identifies himself with them, making them 'partakers' in his grace, and reiterating 'I and Thy people,' as if he would have no blessing which was not shared by them."