 | Richard Ward - Authors, English - 1710 - 402 pages
...Gentile as Jew, according as Simeon declares, moved by the Holy Ghojt •, that the Child Jefus was to.be a Light to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the Glory of the People of Ifrael. The Grammatical Consideration of .this Text will bear this Senfe with all imaginable... | |
 | William Beveridge - Christian life - 1712 - 400 pages
...the Gofpel is to be preached to all other Nations, as well as the Jewifhj Chrift being now come to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the glory of his People Ifrael. But though the words of the Cdm., nriflion be fo clear to this purpofe, yet the... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - 1746 - 500 pages
...Word. For mine Eyes havefeen thy Salvation -, which thou haft prepared before the Face of all People : A Light to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the Glory of thy People Jfrael, Luke ii. 29 — 32. We are now all adopted as Sons, and Children of the Kingdom,... | |
 | John Shute Barrington Barrington (Viscount) - Apostles - 1770 - 444 pages
...by the Mefliah;" though Simeon, at Chrift's being prefented in the temple, had faid, that " he was a Light " to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the Glory " of God's people Ifrael ;" though Chrift had not only hinted it in his parables to the people", and more... | |
 | Robert Riccaltoun - 1772 - 496 pages
...of a forfaken defblate woman, there were great numbers of promifes made and recorded in fcripture, that the one feed, who is Chrift, and who had all...light to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the glory of his people .frael. In virtue of thefe promifes' they were begotten and bom again ; not as Adam's, and... | |
 | Thomas Francklin - Sermons, English - 1787 - 404 pages
...-was not to depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet till Shilo came : he was to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the glory of his people IJrael ; he was to be a fpiritual (and not a temporal) king, and the prince of peace ; to... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - Apologetics - 1793 - 566 pages
...afterwards, when the prophet Simeon took in his arms the infant Jcfus, and pronounced ced him to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, as Well as the glory of Ifrael. Luke ii. 32. But above all our Saviour himfelf, who affumed with his ufual humility the title... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Sermons, English - 1795 - 504 pages
...juft, and good, they might with more impatience defire the coming of Chrift. And becaufe he was to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the glory of Ifrael, God fent him at a time when all iniquity did abound, that men might fee plainly that it was... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1799 - 322 pages
...heathen — thy found is gone out into all the earth, and thy words unto the ends of the world. Thou art a light to lighten the Gentiles, as well . as the glory of thy people Ifrael. No doubt, many from all coafts came to behold this prodigy of wifdom. Among the... | |
 | Theophilus St. John - Christian life - 1804 - 414 pages
...world; as if " God was ftill to " be known, and worfhipped, in Jewry pnly." And if " he had not been a light to lighten " the. Gentiles, as well as the glory of his " people Ifrael, thefe glad tidings of great joy'* would have been nothing to us, who were " ftrangers... | |
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Gospel is to be preached to all other nations, as well as the Jewish ; Christ being now come to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, as well as the glory of his people Israel. 
