 | 1827 - 512 pages
...multiply thee. And 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 shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pages
...confidence in what he says ; I feel the entire force of the words of inspiration ; " Men verily swear by the Greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife."— {Heb. vi. 16.] We arrive at these conclusions respecting the nature of an oath ; and I... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...Prov. xiv. 5. They suborned false witnesses against Stephen. — Acts vi. 11. 13. Men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly, &c. confirmed it by an oath. — Heb. vi. 13. 16—18.... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1828 - 610 pages
...the custom of swearing judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation : " Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial... | |
 | Catechisms - 1828 - 160 pages
...promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself. 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... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1829 - 276 pages
...saying, SURELY blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. — 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... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...authority of St. Paul, who in one place in the Hebrews, speaks of oaths without censure (" Men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife,") and himself, in the Epistles to the Romans and Corinthians, makes use of the expressions... | |
 | Ellen Scott Davison - Albigenses - 1907 - 84 pages
...under the compulsion 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.'3 The angel also, whom John saw in the apocalypse, who stood ' upon the sea and upon the earth,... | |
 | Henry Wheeler - 1908 - 418 pages
...justice, judgment and truth. Some such oaths are alluded to in the New Testament : "For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife" (Heb. 6. 16). There is the example of God himself: "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to... | |
 | William Aldis Wright - Bible - 1909 - 592 pages
...thee. 1 5 And so after he had patiently indured, he obtained the promise. 1 6 For men verily sweare by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God willing more abundantly to shewe vnto the heyres of promise the immutabilitie... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
