 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 630 oldal
...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 fulfilled in the great increase of the church of God by the Messiah, and particularly... | |
 | 1834 - 504 oldal
...Tim. i, 9. 8. • 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 more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | George Fox - 1831 - 610 oldal
...Abraham, because he could not swear by a greater, he svvare by himself,' &c. For ' men verily sware by the greater, and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of strife.' So this oath of God was a confirmation to them, and an end of strife to them, not to us ;... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 oldal
...two immutable things ? Some say the promise and the oath of God. The promise addressed to Abraham, "saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee ;" — a promise to bless with him all partakers of a like faith : this God confirmed with an oath,... | |
 | James Bassnett Mills - 1831 - 434 oldal
...Hebrews, the custom of sweating judicially IB spoken of without any mark of censure, or disapprobation, "Men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is an end of all strife,"^ because it contains a clause which becomes a curse in case of wilful falsity,... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 oldal
...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...he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." He had obtained the promise itself long before ; but the meaning is, that he at length obtained also... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 oldal
...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...he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Can we then doubt after such a confirmation as this ? Is not Jehovah in all ages the same covenant-keeping... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 oldal
...them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham .... saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying...had patiently endured, he obtained the promise."§ If these last words are contrasted with what St. Paul writes in his eleventh chapter to the Hebrews,... | |
 | 1832 - 606 oldal
...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 more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 oldal
...when God m»!« promise to Abraham, because he could ivm by no greater, he sware by himself, ssrinr, Surely, blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee. 11. vi. IS, 11 1? In blessing I unll blen, &c.] Set ctoft xii. 2. and earn. Therefore God give thefcf... | |
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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. 
