 | William Jay - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 722
...of an oath. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear bv 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... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...desire. The next and the last argument is of a very exceptionable class : it is founded upon silence. " For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife."t Respecting this, it is said that it "speaks of the custom of swearing judicially without... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...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 o'f promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men verily swear by the... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...to the generations to come ! ART. IV. — Remarks on Scripture Passages. Continued. Heb. vi, 14. ' Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.' The phrase here is peculiar ; yet few readers make more of it I believe, than if the words 'blessing'... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...multiplying, I will multiply you;" and so having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. For men, indeed, swear by the greater; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction. Therefore, God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...he tells us, that 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. The Greek word is r)firiv, which Erasmus and the vulgar render nisi, unless ; unless blessing T shall... | |
 | James Macknight - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 818
...chap. vi. 13. ' When Gud made promise to Abraham, seeing he could swear by no one greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thcc.' That this was the promise which God made to Abraham when he had offered up Isaac, is evident... | |
 | James Foster - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...ch. vi. 13. 14. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying : Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. For certain, therefore, this was the oath of God Almighty, the one living and true God, and the Creator... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...Israel, and in confirmation of his promises, we have not only his word, but his oath. St. Paul says, " his service. 1 .'-I us then, my brethren, let us say in the word an end of all stiife," Heb. vi. 6; but " God, because he could swear by no greater, sware by himself... | |
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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. 
