 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1831 - 358 Seiten
...exhortation to " give all diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end," the apostle says : — " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swan: by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 Seiten
...SERMON XIII. AN EXPOSITION OF HEBREWS VI. IS— 20. BT THE LATE REV. W. ORMB.* HEB. vi. 13 — 20. — For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he stvare by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thce, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 Seiten
...Abraham. The promise is contained in the preceding verses, and was delivered in the form of an oath. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...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 Seiten
...abundantly, to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. Thus, when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...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... | |
 | 1832 - 606 Seiten
...covenant are fulfilled in the blessings conferred upon true believers. Again, Heb.vi. 1 3, 14. 17, 18, "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he...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,... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1833 - 418 Seiten
...withhold from him his 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...no greater, he sware by himself, saying, ' Surely in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thee ' — ' for men verily swear... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 Seiten
...the end of the days. Dan. 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... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 Seiten
...delivered in the form of an oath. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear bv no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing...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... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1833 - 200 Seiten
...the covenant with Abraham. . ; The writer of^he Epistle to the Hebrews says, " When God made* pTomise to Abraham, because he could swear . by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing,*! will bless thee, and multiplying. I will multiply thee that by two immutable things, in which it '... | |
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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. 
