...conscious personal realization and fulfilment in Jesus of Nazareth, who declared to the Jews: "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, he saw it, and was glad." There is no higher example of faith in the Progress of Humanity than the consciousness of this man,...

...hand of a mediator." To this incident of the past therefore our Lord alludes, when He says, " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, he saw it and was glad." It must have been the spiritual sight of the Jehovah of the Old Testament, who is the Christ of the...

...hand of a mediator." To this incident of the past therefore our Lord alludes, when He says, " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, he saw it and was glud." It must have been the spiritual sight of the Jehovah of the Old Testament, who is the Christ...

...patriarchs were profoundly in the dark ; nay, who can believe it, who reads our Saviour's testimony ? " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, he saw it and was glad." Admit this inference, and then it must be seen that the nature of true religion has always been the...

...flavour of the grapes when the wind carried the fragrance that way. So, our Lord Himself says, " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day ; he saw it, and was glad." Perhaps poor Jonah, lying there helpless and self-condemned, saw much of the cross. He evidently believes...

...all had this glorious sight? " By faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain;" " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad." He saw the victim in his Son, and afterwards in the ram canght in a thicket by his horns ; in the knife,...

...most explicit testimonies to the Lord's Divinity, are gathered from these precious discourses. " Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see My day ; he saw it and was glad. Verily, verily I say unto you, before Abraham was I .am." " My sheep hear My voice, and I know them...

...THOUGHTS IN VERSE FROM THE SUNDAY GOSPELS. BY THE EDITOR. PASSION SUNDAY. 41 Before Abraham was, I Am," "ABRAHAM rejoiced to see My day; He saw it and was glad." " One dead two thousand years — nay, nay, Tbou Dreamer, Thou art mad 1 " Thns cry the Jews, their...

...the figure of the less ?" Second Pupil. " Was it partly to this our Lord alluded when he said, * Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day : he saw it and was glad ' ?" Third Pupil. " The l land of Moriah ' was the hill country, on one of the crests of which was...

...eye of faith, he saw that promise fulfilled in the Christ of Bethlehem. For Christ Himself declared " Abraham rejoiced to see my day ; he saw it, and was glad." (John viii. 56.) And somewhere near the same period (BC 2000) we hear a voice from the land of Uz....