 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 630 sider
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 400 sider
...Isaiah liv. 7—10. Mai. iii. 6. Moreover he bound himself by an oath. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, by myself have... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 sider
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 sider
...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... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 sider
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 606 sider
...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... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1833 - 418 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 sider
...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... | |
 | 1833 - 578 sider
...to a personal existence, in the sense assumed by Mr. Gurney, we shall find no difficulty in reading the passage as we find it in the Chaldee paraphrase,...sworn,' is, in the Targum of Jonathan, ' By my word (no,o3) ' have I sworn.' As, then, .in the instance, ' By my word, I ' have sworn,' is exclusive of... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1833 - 194 sider
...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. 
