...Isaac, as it is here expressed by the Apostle, we see the meaning of Christ's saying to the Jews, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day ; he saw it, and was glad." This day was not that in which Christ was then ministering; for, said he to the Jews, " This is your...

...Isaac, as it is here expressed by the Apostle, we see the meaning of Christ's saying to the Jews, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day ; he saw it, and was glad." This day was not that in which Christ was then ministering ; for, said he to the Jews, " This is your...

...all the lines of the old and the new dispensation meet, and from him they all radiate. Jesus says, "Abraham rejoiced to see my day ; he saw it and was glad ; and before Abraham was, I am." The blood of the sacrificial victims shadowed his approach; prophetic vision...

...thing, be it never so thick : they reach any thing, be it never so far off. Christ . saith of Abraham: "Abraham rejoiced to see my day: he saw it, and was glad." He saw it, not with his bodily eyes, but with the inner eyes of the soul. [' Vigil, adv. Eutych. in...

...things that ye see," Luke x. 23. Blessed eyes, that with faith and love see the Lord Jesus ! " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day : he saw it, and was glad," John viii. 56. He saw it in hope, we see it in faith. He saw it and rejoiced : who can behold the day...

...degree looked forward to Christ. They prophesied of Him, and desired to see these gospel realities. So " Abraham rejoiced to see my day ; he saw it, and was glad," though it was only by the eye of faith. See John 8. 56. 1 Pet.'l. 10-12. Heb. 11. 13. 18. Hear ye....

...it never so thick : they reach any thing, be it Johnviii. never so far off Christ saith of Abraham : "Abraham rejoiced to see my day : he saw it, and was glad." He saw it, not with his bodily eyes, but with the inner eyes of the soul. When we speak of the mystery...

...we are saved by faith in a Messiah which hath come eighteen hundred years ago, &c., sa Christ said, "Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad." John viii, 56, Romans i, IP, 20, to ii, 14, 15, Gal., Hi, 8, Job was an heathen, yet observe his faith,...

...hoping, and whose sacrifice for sin he had now seen prefigured, in the sacrifice of his own son. " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, he saw it and was glad." (John viii. 5,6.) And now, O reader, it is for you to ask, ".Do I know what it is to walk in the steps...

...heaven for those under the law. Under the Old Testament there were faith and joy in Christ. " Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day ; he saw it and was glad." And just and devout "Simeon, who waited for the consolation of Israel, when he had seen the Messiah-Babe,...