 | John Hoyland - 1816 - 432 pages
...upon the sea-shore ; and thy secd shall possess the gate of his enemies : And in thy secd shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice." What more just ground of preferenee could have becn adduced ! for though lh« character of the Israelitish... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...that in blessing I will bltss thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore,...earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice. This covenant with Abraham was the Magna Charta, the basis of the Jewish constitution, which was renewed... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 568 pages
...multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;...earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice." And yet the very same blessings had been from time to time promised to Abraham, in the most positive... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...sea -f- shore; and 'thy seed shall possess m the gate of his enemies ; 18 "And in thy seed shall all out by the way. 25 T And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land 19 So Abraham returned unto his AC" young men, and they rose up and went together to 'Beer-sheba; and... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...18. Because thou hast done this thing, in blessing I will bless thee, &c. and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.' We find it difficult to attribute these gross misrepresentations to mere ignorance or negligence; there... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1818 - 238 pages
...occasion, in reward for Abraham's obedience in offering up Isaac. Gen. xxii. 18, "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice," A reward of Abraham's righteousness IN ACT. The Scripture teaches, that "all men have sinned and come... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...IS. Because thouhast done this thing, in blessing I will bless thee, 8ec. and in tJiy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.' We find it difficult to attribute these gross misrepresentations to mere ignorance or negligence; there... | |
 | 1838 - 794 pages
...that in blessing I will blesS thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore,...the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hail obeyed my voice." After this, let any one decide, whether his obedience was not the very test... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pages
...upon the sea-shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; 18 And in thy seed shall all $ q . 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up, and went together to Beei-eheba; and Abraham... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...18. Because thou hast done this thing, in blessing I will bless thce, &c. and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.' We find it difficult to attribute these gross misrepresentations to mere ignorance or negligence ;... | |
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By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which... 
