 | 1848 - 596 pages
...contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities, by enabling them...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested to the world. — Sir Isaac Newton. |№I(tat(on0*... | |
 | 1848 - 526 pages
...believed, simply because they were declared in the word of God. For, as Newton observes, the prophecies were given not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that his own Providence might be manifested in their fulfilment. " For the event of things predicted many... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 318 pages
...Newton regards the prophecies of the Old and New Testament not as given to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and afford convincing arguments that the world is governed by Providence. He considers that there is so... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1849 - 454 pages
...interpret it. " God gave such predictions," observes Sir Isaac Newton, " not to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things ; but that after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not that of the interpreter, be then manifested to the world." (Sir Isaac Newton... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 316 pages
...Newton regards the prophecies of the Old and New Testament not as given to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and afford convincing arguments that the world is governed by Providence. He considers that there is so... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 322 pages
...Newton regards the prophecies of the Old and New Testament not as given to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and afford convincing arguments that the world is governed by Providence. He considers that there is so... | |
 | Samuel Hinds - Church history - 1850 - 444 pages
...interpret it. " God gave such predictions," observes Sir Isaac Newton, " not to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things ; but that after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not that of the interpreter, be then manifested to the world." (Sir Isaac Newton... | |
 | bart Edward Cust (hon. sir) - 1850 - 898 pages
...gave prophecies, not to gratify man's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things; but to the end, that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event; and thus that His Providence, and not the skill and wisdom of interpreters be thereby manifested to the... | |
 | James Armstrong (curate of Ardoyne.) - 1851 - 216 pages
...if God designed to make them prophets. God gave this, and the other prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities, by enabling them...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence not the interpreter's, be manifested thereby to the world." See note A, at the end.... | |
 | Patrick Campbell Macdougall - Philosophy - 1852 - 358 pages
...he designed to make them prophets ; whereas, he gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities, by enabling them...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreters, be then manifested to the world;" — this being the case,... | |
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Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. 
