 | Thomas Jackson - 1844 - 622 pagine
...that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 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.... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1844 - 534 pagine
...intermediate by oath. Now the object of this oath (as our apostle tells us, ver. 13.) was God himself: Wlien God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself; yet this, By myself' have I sworn, is more express in the Septuagint than in the... | |
 | James Hall Brookes - 1816 - 318 pagine
...God has said and sworn that we shall come off "more than conquerors through him that loved us." ' " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself ; " 2 and — glory to His name ! — He still lives to swear by Himself, " to the... | |
 | 1913 - 304 pagine
...for a start we must ascertain what these were. Verse 13 of this chapter (Heb. 6) contains the key : "For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself." Here are two things, a "promise" and an "oath." The promise, as is well known, refers... | |
 | Abraham Mitrie Rihbany - 1916 - 454 pagine
...altogether." A false oath is supposed to bring awful retribution upon its maker and upon his posterity. Of such importance is this mode of speech to Orientals...— an oath which, whenever I heard it in my youth, rilled me with awe. Thus, also, in the sixty-second chapter of Isaiah we have the words, "The Lord... | |
 | Levi Rightmyer - 1916 - 990 pagine
...God, which is proved as follows, where the apostle Paul says in his letter to the Hebrews (6: 13-18). z svvare by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee; and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Arno Clemens Gaebelein - 1917 - 316 pagine
...patiently and obtained the promise. And He gave not only the promise of His Word, but also His oath. "For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself." What assurance therefore — God's Word and God's oath. And this makes manifest to the heirs of promise... | |
 | 1917 - 460 pagine
...That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promses. 13 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.... | |
 | Richard F. Chambers - 1917 - 120 pagine
...have the PREEMINENCE in that which he has planned and purposed to do for all nations of the earth. "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swear by himself — wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs the immutability of... | |
 | John Harden Allen - 1918 - 418 pagine
...the faithfulness of God, he gives a word for word quotation from this same covenant promise, saying : "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." This quotation, as... | |
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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. 
