...saying. Vo'ir father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and be saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am. Then took they op stones to cast...

...reproaches thrown upon him during the course of his life. There is one remarkable passage, John viii. 57. "Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ?" The meaning of this is hardly obvious, unless we suppose that his natural beauty and bloom was so...

...Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day : and he saw it, and was glad. 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ? 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 59 Then took they...

...benevolent life, and Ministry ; wherewith to confirm their faith. But, instead of that, they said unto him, " Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Can a man of your time of life have seen our Father Abraham, who has been dead these eighteen hundred...

...fifty years of age when he was crucified ; and this opinion he grounds on the question of the Jews, " Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?" And on the "testimony of all the old men who had lived with St. John, and the other Apostles." They...

...Christ to the Jews, " earnestly desired to see my day, and he saw it and was glad." Then said the Jews, thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ? " Verily, verily, I say unto you," answered Christ, " Before Abraham was, 1 am." Nor may we omit...

...support of this opinion, he appealed to the observation of some Jews to our Saviour, John viii. 57, ' Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ?' Whence he inferred, that Christ was then actually not far from fifty. On the opinion of Eusebius,...

...I». W. 14. liii. 3, 5. during the course of his life. There is one remarkable passage, John viii. 57. "Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?" The meaning of this is hardly obvious, unless we suppose his natural beauty and bloom was so wasted...

...states of men. Blindness is as predominant now among Christians, (so called,) as then among the Jews. " Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?" said the Jews. Alas! their thoughts and views were outward. They no more knew what Christ meant by...

...I was in existence." Abraham, the patriarch, was the person spoken of; lor the Jews having said, " Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ?" our Lord declares, with his peculiarly solemn mode of introduction, " Verily, verily, I say unto...