 | Robert Morehead - 1825 - 480 oldal
...that he should spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south — and that in him, and his seed, all the families of the earth should be blessed ! May this House, which, like the pillar of the Patriarch, we have now set up, and... | |
 | Edward Thompson - 1838 - 532 oldal
...taking unto himself a wife, he laid down to sleep ; and God appeared unto him in a dream, and declared that in him and his seed all the families of the earth should be blessed. In the three instances, then, observe, when 1 Gen. xxviii. 1 — 4. Abraham, Isaac,... | |
 | 1842 - 540 oldal
...the river Euphrates. But there is another promise— Abraham is the father of many nations — and in him and his seed, all the families of the earth are to be blessed. " The promise that he should be the HEIR of the WORLD was not to Abraham or his seed, through the law,... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - 1844 - 756 oldal
...called and chosen of God, as the father of the faithful, was received into covenant relation with God by promise ; that in him, and his seed, all the families of the earth should be blessed. And the earthly blessings, which were promised to Abraham, were a shadow of a gospel... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - 1844 - 762 oldal
...called and chosen of God, as the father of the faithful, was received into covenant relation with God by promise ; that in him, and his seed, all the families of the earth should be blessed. And the earthly blessings, which were promised to Abraham, were a shadow of a gospel... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - 1844 - 222 oldal
...to appear to him, to renew the promise of a Saviour which he had before made to his father Abraham, that in him and his seed all the families of the earth should be blessed ; and at the same time to support and encourage him under his present trials, by... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - 1849 - 684 oldal
...called and chosen of God, as the father of the faithful, was received into covenant relation with God by promise ; that in him, and his seed, all the families of the earth should be blessed. And the earthly blessings, which were promised to Abraham, were a shadow of gospel... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1850 - 280 oldal
...whom he gives a tenth of his spoil. He goes into Egypt : it is already an organized nation ; a Pharoah is reigning there. He loses his faith in God, and...but he is told that the child of his own wife must be his heir. She is barren : yet he believes. He waits long. When the child has been born, and is growing... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1851 - 542 oldal
...of the covenant is not a witness for his own privileges, for his own relation to God. In him and in his seed all the families of the earth are to be blessed. He is to be a witness to all of the source from which thoughts, intimations, prophecies, come. He believes... | |
 | Charles Greenwood - 1855 - 440 oldal
...bear its full force in heaven to all eternity. Abraham gave an impulse which the world shall feel, — in him and his seed, " all the families of the earth are to be blessed." He became the father of the faithful, his bosom a type of heaven, and God committed to him a covenant,... | |
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Abraham is living under the promise that in him and his seed all the families of the earth are to be blessed : but he has no seed. A child is born to him by a bondwoman living in his house. Thus he hopes the promise will be fulfilled : but he is told... 
