 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 362 pages
...which has sometimes been adduced in support of the practice of swearing : " 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, &c. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...himself, and made an High Priest for ever, after the Order of Melchisedec. 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. 15 And so, after... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 572 pages
...whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils, ver. 3, 4. ь 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 1 will multiply thee. And so, after he had... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pages
...swearing by Him that liveth for ever and ever, that time shall 'be no longer (Rev. x. 5, 6). "But God, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself " (Heb. vi. 13), that is, by his own self-existence, attributes, .and perfections (Psal. Ixxxix. 35 ; Isa. xlix. 18,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 426 pages
...faith, or that I believed such contradictory absurdities. The apostle says, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself — wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,"... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 600 pages
...he hath taken this course also, he hath sworn to their truth. Heb. vi. 13. ' When God made promises to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater he sware by himself.' He confirms his promise by an oath. ' O, faelices nos, quorum .causa Deus jurat; 6 infaelices, si nee... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...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. And so, after he... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 546 pages
...fully assured by an argument in the epistle to the Hebrews, Ch. vi. 13, 14, " 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." For certain, therefore,... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...hearts ; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. HEB. vi. 13, 17 : When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | 1828 - 414 pages
...unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath;" and, further, ,' because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." Heb. vi. 13, 17, 18. We may well be astonished at this wondrous language. How weak are our conceptions ! how far... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
