| 1832 - 590 pages
...preservation of the chosen seed during the seven years of famine. Hence Joseph says to liis brethren, " As for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good." The hardness of heart and wicked obstinacy of Pharaoh was in itself an evil ; but it was the means... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 432 pages
...mention it : but his answering them in nearly the same words as he had done seventeen years before, Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto...pass as it is this day, to save much people alive ; I say, his answering them in this language was saying in effect, ' Your suspicions are unfounded... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 432 pages
...answering them in nearly the same words as he had done seventeen years before, Ye thought evil agninst me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass as it is this day, to save much people alive ; I say, his answering them in this language was saying in effect, ' Your suspicions are unfounded... | |
| John Milton - 1825 - 514 pages
...wickedness of men he produces good. Gen. xlv. 5. ' God did send me before you to preserve life.' 1. 20. ' as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good.' If (inasmuch as I do not address myself to such as are wholly ignorant, but to those who are already... | |
| 1852 - 1174 pages
...brethren, and their sin, for they did unto thee evil :" and what was Joseph's answer? (verse 19), " Fear not, for am I in the place of God? But as for...thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good." You see that neither Joseph nor Peter were afraid of ascribing the very acts to God, although these... | |
| 1826 - 1036 pages
...them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? Í 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; hut Og we will not turn into the fields, or! the king of Bashan went out against into the v t 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 686 pages
...to certain ends for the manifestation of his glory : so Joseph tells his brethren, ' As for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is at this day, to save much people alive ;' Gen. 1. 20. Fourthly, his determining and restraining second... | |
| William Bullock (of Halifax, N.S.) - 1826 - 218 pages
...of God, Avhich bringeth good out of evil — Fear not, said \\e,for am I in the place of God ? Hut as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now, therefore, fear ye not, I will nourish you, and... | |
| 1826 - 478 pages
...you, to preserve you a posterity in the earth. So now, it was not you that sold me hither, but God. As for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good." In that hardness of heart which led Pharaoh to defy the God of Israel, and to hold his chosen people... | |
| 1827 - 590 pages
...them to entreat forgiveness in his father's name, went to his heart, and drew tears from his eyes! " Fear not, for am I in the place of God ? But, as for you, ye thought evil against me :"—as if he desired to see repentance towards God, in the place of all this humble confession to... | |
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