 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...Hebrews speaks of the custom of swearing judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation : '' Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial oaths,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
...Hebrews speaks of the custom of swearing judicially without any mark of censure or disapprobation : ' Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." But though a nation has an undoubted right to require the security of an oath upon occasions of real... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert - Sermons, American - 1823 - 30 pages
...ятко.лч; CONSOLATION and an ANCHOR to their souls. Heb. vi. 17, 18. " Wherein God, willing more abundnntly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an o'ith} that by two immutable things (h:s word and his oath,) in which it was impossible for God to... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 438 pages
...accordingly, when Mraham had waited patiently, he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by one who is greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all gain-saying. 17 In which matter God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise... | |
 | Theology - 1824 - 314 pages
...multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for...all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto 170 Christian Repository. the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...— Matt. xxvi. 60. Prov. xiv. 5. They suborned false witnesses against Stephen. — Acts vi. 11. 13. Men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for...all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly, &c. confirmed it by an oath. — Heb. vi. 13. 16—18. Jer. xxii. 5. Numb, xiv. 21, 22. And the angel,... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...— Matt. xxvi. 60. Prov. xiv. 5. They suborned false witnesses against Stephen. — Acts vi. 11. 13. Men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for...all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly, &c. confirmed it by an oath. — Heb. vi. 13. 16—18. Jer. xxii. 5. Numb, xiv. 21, 22. And the angel,... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - Salvation - 2000 - 264 pages
...multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for...all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - Bible and law - 2000 - 468 pages
...For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself. 16 For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | J. Dwight Pentecost, Kenneth M. Durham - Religion - 228 pages
...confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. 17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation,... | |
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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled... 
