 | John Satchel - 1809 - 480 Seiten
...said, My son, God will tiro-vide himself a. lamb. True, my dear, said he. It also contains a promise, that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. This seed, promised to our first parents under the name oi the seed of the woman, is the Saviour... | |
 | Joshua Spalding - 1812 - 340 Seiten
...the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and that his seed should possess the gate of his enemies ; and that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. And all who are blessed with faithful Abraham, knowing that a man is not justified by the... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1813 - 556 Seiten
...tribes, who each preserved an accurate account of its genealogy from him in whom it was promised " that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed," in order to prove the accomplishment of that promise in the birth of the Messiah. The immoral... | |
 | 1842 - 634 Seiten
...traced our Saviour's genealogy in the Jewish manner down from Abraham, to whom the promise was made, that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. Luke, on the contrary, reckons it in the Gentile manner, tracing it up from our Saviour through... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 Seiten
...wickedness by the deluge ; of the call of their illustrious ancestor Abraham, and the promise made to him, that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed, were preserved, and read with reverence, in their most sacred books. In those books were likewise... | |
 | 1860 - 796 Seiten
...more devoid of personal ambition never drew the breath of life ; and yet to him was given the Promise that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. As for your Alexanders, Caesars, and Napoleons, your Wolseyo, Cromwelle, and Robespierres,... | |
 | 1823 - 582 Seiten
...writings, the history of a peculiar people, descended from the patriarch Abraham, to whom God had promised that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. That promise was repeated to Isaac and to Jacob ; and in the belief of it their posterity,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 580 Seiten
...writings, the history of a peculiar people, descended from the patriarch Abraham, to whom God had promised that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. That promise was repeated to Isaac and to Jacob ; and in the belief of it their posterity,... | |
 | 1824 - 588 Seiten
...it and was glad." Where do you learn this ? What was the peculiar promise whkh God gave to Abraham ? That in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. How was this promise fulfilled ? By the birth of Jesus Christ, who sprung from the seed of... | |
 | James Brown (D.D.) - 1824 - 136 Seiten
...his son Isaac ; and might perhaps be so far from thinking this order inconsistent with the promise, That in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed, that he might think it the direct accomplishment of it. — " Wherewith *' shall I come before... | |
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Abraham, that in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed, has been fulfilled, but that has been accomplished only by the most rigorous hostility to paganism among the Jews. 
