and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is empty talk, and your faith even meer amusement.

that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:

O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,

I will return then, says he, into my house, which I have quitted; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

but they seized on him, and beat him, and sent him home empty.

at vintage, he sent a servant to the husbandmen, to demand the profits of the vineyard. but they beat him and sent him away empty.

again he sent another servant, him they likewise beat, insulted, and sent away empty.