 | Levi Rightmyer - 1916 - 990 страници
...comments upon this great event to the Hebrews as follows: " For men verily swear by the greater: and ho believed his w Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | 1918 - 628 страници
...after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. . 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,... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1925 - 470 страници
...priests of the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and ask, and 1 [Hebr. vi. 16. "An oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife."] they shall shew thee th? sentence of judgment, and thou shall do according to that thing, which they... | |
 | Ellen Scott Davison - 1927 - 454 страници
...of necessity. This is taught by the Apostle when he says, "For men verily swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." The angel also, whom John saw in the Apocalypse, who stood "upon the sea and upon the earth and lifted... | |
 | 1903 - 1318 страници
...lawfulness of oaths, and p. 189, where the very text speaks plainly of an oath among all nations and men, "An oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife," Hebr. the Cth and ICth. "The necessity of religion to the support of human .society in nothing appears... | |
 | William Hand Browne, Clayton Colman Hall, Bernard Christian Steiner - 1894 - 596 страници
...Abraham because he could Swear by no greater he Swore by himself, for Men verily Swear by the greater & an Oath for Confirmation is to them an End of all Strife so therefore the swearing which I Deem Lawfull is that which is Sworn in and for Justice Sake, for... | |
 | Francis A. Schaeffer - 1994 - 436 страници
...so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Paul Langford - 1991 - 640 страници
...spelled out the spiritual implications of the multiplication of laws and oaths. One of his texts was ‘An Oath for Confirmation is to them an End of all Strife'. In England, he argued, the reverse was the case. Oaths merely perpetuated strife. The State seemed... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 422 страници
...faithful be To clearer light vouchsafed to me! HEBREWS 6:16-19 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
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Dr. Tillotson, in his sermon upon the lawfulness of oaths, taking a text which applies to all nations and all men, ' an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife, 
