| Thom Scott - 1824 - 622 pages
...renewed to Abraham, was intended. The oath sworn unto Abraham is by the apostle thus referred to : " Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show " unto...promise, the immutability of " his counsel, confirmed it with an oath ; that, by " two immutable things in which it was impossible " for God to lie, we might... | |
| 1824 - 462 pages
...That ye be not slothM, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after... | |
| 1832 - 590 pages
...God, and to take effectual care of them through their pilgrimage here on earth. The aposlle says, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely in blessing I will bless thee ; and so after he had patiently endured,... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...Matt. xxiv. 35. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful : he cannot deny himself, 2 Tim. ii. IS. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater... | |
| 1825 - 630 pages
...days of our life." (Luke i. 68—75.) And, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, St. Paul tells us, that '.' when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." " Wherein—in which .thing, namely, the certainty of his purpose to bless ;—Cod, willing more abundantly... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 572 pages
...great Ibis man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils, ver. 3, 4. ь For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying 1 will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Heb. »i. 13... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 362 pages
...epistle to the Hebrews, which has sometimes been adduced in support of the practice of swearing : " For, when God made promise to Abraham, because he...himself, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless thee, &c. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife... | |
| George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...with the Sacrifice of himself, and made an High Priest for ever, after the Order of Melchisedec. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after... | |
| George Townsend - 1825 - 808 pages
...with the Sacrifice of himself, and made an High Priest for ever, after the Order of Melchisedec. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 1 5 And so, after... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 860 pages
...©Eos ..... wiAotfE xnf Xsyuw "H (/.rjv EuXoywv EuXoyjjtfu ffe, xai crX>]^uvuv rXtgduvu ffE. God .... sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing, I will...bless thee ; and multiplying, I will multiply thee. Heb. x. 30. Ku£io£ xfivsi TOV Xaov aurov. The Lord shall judge his people. Heb. x. 37, 38. (and see... | |
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