| 918 pagini
...object ; and therefore, when he approached his 75th year, the God of glory appeared unto him, and said unto him, " Get thee out of thy country, and from...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." Trying and severe as this command must have appeared, he instantly obeyed, and left brethren and sisters,... | |
| 1840 - 498 pagini
...country, and a weak affinity, and a little house, he might inherit the promises of God. For thus God said unto him: " Get thee out of thy country, and from...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt... | |
| George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1843 - 300 pagini
...country, and a weak affinity, and a little liouse, he might inherit the promises of God. For thus God said unto him: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy n anie great, and thou shalt... | |
| 1847 - 508 pagini
...been privileged to receive from God himself ; whilst he spobe of the wonderful voice which called to him, ' Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee ;' and of the wonderful faith, by which he was enabled to ' go out, not knowing whither he went ;'... | |
| Mystery - 1850 - 512 pagini
...of Abraham, and unto him God declared the end from the beginning. When the Lord called Abram He said unto him, " Get thee out of thy country, and from...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 388 pagini
...causes at all. He chose Abraham because he would do so. When God thus selected Abraham, he addressed him, " Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." What can have enabled Abraham to do this ? That he did, we shall see in the next verse. Why ? We never,... | |
| Patrick Cheyne - 1861 - 522 pagini
...easy thing for Abraham to walk by faith, for he was not told whither he was to go ; —" The Lord said unto him, get thee out of thy country, and from thy...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." He was to be shown the land; but it was not said how or when it was to be shown to him ; he went out... | |
| François Samuel R. Louis Gaussen - 1869 - 384 pagini
...Abraham, four hundred arid thirty years before, when the Lord appeared to him in Chaldea, and said to him, " Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou... | |
| Lowther John Barrington (hon.) - 1872 - 398 pagini
...and the father of Nachor ; and they served other gods." From that idolatry God called Abram forth, saying unto him, " Get thee out of thy country, and...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." 2 The words of the command seem to show that God was greatly vexed by this hateful sin. " Get thee... | |
| 1874 - 454 pagini
...Let us see in what way,— 2. Abraham is a pattern to us. — Ne obeyed the Word of God. God said to him, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,...father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." This was a great trial to Abraham. Few men like to leave their country with no hope of returning again,... | |
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