 | Goodwyn Barmby - 1865 - 268 pagine
...nocturnal vision, when his head was pillowed on the stones, and he beheld a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it, as our holy thoughts arise to God and His blessings flow down to us ! And then came the promise of... | |
 | Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson - 1867 - 632 pagine
...unimpeded entrance to those who rise thither in faith. In olden time Jacob beheld a ladder erected reaching to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. But now, having been made man for man's sake, He who is the Friend of man has crashed with the foot... | |
 | Origen - 1872 - 628 pagine
...says that a divine vision was presented to the view of our prophet Jacob,8 — a ladder stretching to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it, and the Lord supported 9 upon its top, — obscurely pointing, by this matter of the ladder, either... | |
 | Mildmay conference - 1869 - 402 pagine
...are all going. In this state God appears to him in a vision, and he sees a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. What was that ladder intended to symbolise ? Does it not appear to be the way by which Jacob was to... | |
 | Elihu (pseud.) - 1870 - 96 pagine
...who, in his lonely sleep on the wilds of Haran, saw the * Genesis xxviii. 10-17. ladder reaching up to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it, and heard the voice of God who " stood above it," so we also, if we could realise His love, could say... | |
 | Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson - 1871 - 638 pagine
...unimpeded entrance to those who rise thither in faith. In olden time Jacob beheld a ladder erected reaching to heaven, and the angels of God. ascending and descending upon it. But now, having been made man for man's sake, He who is the Friend of man has crushed with the foot... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1872 - 196 pagine
...other, for sin had not yet separated them. What Jacob saw long afterwards in vision, a ladder set up to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. was then a joyful reality. There was uninterrupted communion between God and the pure and lovely beings... | |
 | João Carlos G.D.V. Saldanha de Oliveira e Daun (duque de Saldanha.) - 1872 - 162 pagine
...the son of Isaac, sees in a dream the mysterious ladder, resting on the earth, and whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it; symbolising the reconciliation of heaven with earth through the incarnation of the Word. ' And God... | |
 | John William Colenso - 1873 - 460 pagine
...years previously, on his way to Padan-Aram, when he had that vision of a ladder reaching from .earth to heaven, 'and the angels of GOD ascending and descending upon it,' and consecrated the stone which he had used for his pillow.25 And so the change of Jacob's name took... | |
 | 1874 - 920 pagine
...Ah, but it is not on down couches and in the soft places of life that we dream of a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of the Lord ascending and descending on it, and the Lord God standing above it. The broad sunny river... | |
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And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 
