The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament: GenesisFunk & Wagnalls, 1892 - Bible |
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... purpose contemplated by it . Nothing else could more efficiently have accomplished its purpose toward the life of man . Nothing else could have supplied its place in the universe . It is allied to religious ideas . It is allied to ...
... purpose contemplated by it . Nothing else could more efficiently have accomplished its purpose toward the life of man . Nothing else could have supplied its place in the universe . It is allied to religious ideas . It is allied to ...
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... purpose . I. The heavenly bodies were called into existence by God . " And God said , Let there be lights in the ... purposes . They cannot create an atom . How the power of God is lifted above that of the most dignified creature He has ...
... purpose . I. The heavenly bodies were called into existence by God . " And God said , Let there be lights in the ... purposes . They cannot create an atom . How the power of God is lifted above that of the most dignified creature He has ...
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... purpose of gluttony , but of health . Thus is our food the gift of God . III . That the Animal World was an advance in the purpose of Creation . The chaos had been removed , and from it order and light had been evoked . The seas and the ...
... purpose of gluttony , but of health . Thus is our food the gift of God . III . That the Animal World was an advance in the purpose of Creation . The chaos had been removed , and from it order and light had been evoked . The seas and the ...
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... purpose . 1. It may bruise certain erroneous ideas , and yet be of no service to you . 2. It may bruise certain wrong habits , and yet be of no real service to you . III . As a guide in propagating Christianity . The great failure of ...
... purpose . 1. It may bruise certain erroneous ideas , and yet be of no service to you . 2. It may bruise certain wrong habits , and yet be of no real service to you . III . As a guide in propagating Christianity . The great failure of ...
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... purpose in the eternal self - existent . But the sublime dictate of the inspired word is " God is not a man , " & c . ( Num . xxiii . 19 ) . In sooth , every act here recorded , the observation , the resolve , the exception , seems ...
... purpose in the eternal self - existent . But the sublime dictate of the inspired word is " God is not a man , " & c . ( Num . xxiii . 19 ) . In sooth , every act here recorded , the observation , the resolve , the exception , seems ...
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Abimelech Abraham Abram Adam Adam and Eve angels beauty believe blessing Cain called Canaan character Christ Christian Church circumcision command covenant creatures darkness death Divine Divine grace duty earth Egypt Esau eternal evil faith father favour fear feel gifts give glory God's grace hath heart heaven heavenly Hence holy honour hope human Isaac Ishmael Jacob Japheth Jehovah judgment king Laban Lamech land light live look Lord MAIN HOMILETICS man's mankind marriage means Melchizedek mercy mind moral Nahor nations nature Noah obedience PARAGRAPH.-Verses patriarch prayer promise Providence purpose race Rebekah regard religion revelation righteous sacrifice saints salvation Sarah Satan says Scripture seed sense servant sinners sins Sodom Sodom and Gomorrah sons of Noah soul spirit SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS temptation Terah thee things thou thought tion true truth unto Verse waters wicked wife word worship
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Page 108 - My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 16 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Page 523 - Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.
Page 87 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 141 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 36 - Our life is hid with Christ in God, and when Christ, who is our life, shall appear ; then shall we also appear with him in glory.
Page 349 - And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Page 74 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight ; but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 14 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 153 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.