 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 630 páginas
...strong consolation and great hope? The apostle tells us, verses 13, 14, " For, when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself; saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." This promise is chiefly... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 618 páginas
...strong consolation and great hope? The apostle tells us, verses 13, 14, " For, when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself; saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." This promise is chiefly... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 páginas
...manifested who now inherit the promises made to them upon earth : for example ; " when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself." There is something exceedingly apt in the introduction of Abraham on this occasion. He was addressing... | |
 | 1832 - 606 páginas
...blessings conferred upon true believers. Again, Heb.vi. 1 3, 14. 17, 18, "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. Wherein God, willing... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 páginas
...xii. 13. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Malt. xxii. 32. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself. Which hope (the hope set before in through Christ) we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 páginas
...heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. Thus, when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by Himself, saying: " Surely blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee." And so, after... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 páginas
...contained in the preceding verses, and was delivered in the form of an oath. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1833 - 418 páginas
...counsel in time of need] 1 Sam. xx. 12, 13. It is said, Heb. vi. 13-1 6, that when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, ' Surely in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thee ' — ' for... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 590 páginas
...to a personal existence, in the sense assumed by Mr. Gurney, we shall find no difficulty in rending the passage as we find it in the Chaldee paraphrase,...sworn,' is, in the Targum of Jonathan, ' By my word (no'Qa) ' have I sworn.' As, then, in the instance, ' By my word, I ' have sworn,' is exclusive of... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1833 - 194 páginas
...of the covenant with Abraham. The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews says, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee ....... that by two... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
