...instance to which the Apostle here refers, is the " oath which was sworn to our father Abraham." " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." The record is found in Genesis xxii. 1C, " By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord." But this is not...

...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 swore by himself; saying, Surely, blessing, I' will bless thee ; and multiplying, I will multiply thee....

...that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inkerit the promises, For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, be sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee....

...shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, he confirmed it by an oath"." And " because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself," saying, " By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;...

...still farther established, from what the writer of the epistle to Heb. saith (chap. vi. 13, 18.) " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could...after he had patiently endured he obtained the promise ; wherein God willing more abundartly to show unto the heirs of salva~ t'nn the immutability of his...

...That ye be not slothM, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 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...

...God, and to take effectual care of them through their pilgrimage here on earth. The aposlle says, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely in blessing I will bless thee ; and so after he had patiently endured,...

...days of our life." (Luke i. 68—75.) And, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, St. Paul tells us, that '.' when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." " Wherein—in which .thing, namely, the certainty of his purpose to bless ;—Cod, willing more abundantly...

...great Ibis man was, unto 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...Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying 1 will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Heb. »i. 13...

...epistle to the Hebrews, which has sometimes been adduced in support of the practice of swearing : " For, when God made promise to Abraham, because he...himself, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless thee, &c. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife...