 | 1825 - 42 pages
...stayed Abraham's arm. "Lay not thine hand upon the lad," said LGod, "for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, th'ine only son, from Me." Then Abraham looked up, and saw a ram caught in a thicket. This he took and offered as a sacrifice... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...highest evidence of his supreme love to his maker. God says to him. " Now I know that thou fearest me, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." Our Savior made obedience to him, the infallible test and highest evidence of true love to him. " If... | |
 | Rev. Tomas Scott (Rector of Ashton Sandford, Bucks.), Thomas Chalmers - 1826 - 592 pages
...dispositions. " By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac." " By this I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me." The words of the Lord Jesus to the apostle of the Gentiles, shows the holy nature, as well as the sanctifying... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...upon the lad," said the angel, " neither do thou any thing unto him ; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." (Gen. xxii. 12.) So significant indeed and comprehensive is this principle of godly fear, that it is... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 608 pages
...coudescends to express by an assumption of human affections ; Gen. xxii. 12. ' Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.' That this is the justification which the apostle intends, cannot be denied, but out of love "to strife.... | |
 | 1826 - 104 pages
...parents, the more acceptable they were to God ? " Now I know thou fearest God (as God is made to say) seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." It was on the same plan of piety that Jephtha sacrificed his daughter; and the priest, very piously,... | |
 | John Marsh - 1827 - 498 pages
...lifted the knife to slay him, when the Angel of the Lord interposed and said, " Now I knowtiiou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." It was a glorious exhibition of faith ; for which God again confirmed to him, his exceeding great and... | |
 | Frederick Corbyn - 1828 - 376 pages
...not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him ; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. Because thou hast done this thing, in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying 1 will multiply... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 242 pages
...not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him ; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.* Abraham prophesied without being conscious of it, when he said, " My son God will provide himself a... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1828 - 508 pages
...Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me."* But when the beloved and only Son of God carried bis cross to Calvary, and was offered a bleeding victim... | |
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Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 
