| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 514 pages
...himself explains it to be, not on account of the shortness of human life in general, but, because he had not attained unto the days of the years of the life of his fathers. The sense, therefore, which the writer qf the epistle to the Hebrews puts uppn these words,... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 504 pages
...himself explains it to be, not on account of the shortness of human life in general, but, because he bad not attained unto the days of the years of the life of his fathers. The sense, therefore, which the writer •f the epistle to the Hebrews puts upon these... | |
| William Jay - 1812 - 284 pages
...and thirty years: few and full " of evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrim" age : and I have not attained unto the days of the " years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their ^: pilgrimage"—but if he fell short of the longevity of !iis aacestors, we come vastly short of his.... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...Deborah dies, and his beloved wife Rachel dies, and Reuben denies Bilhah. It was no wonder he said, ' Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,' Gen. xlvii. 9. 2dly, There is a harmony of providences among them; selves. It is observed of the wheels,... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pages
...Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage!" — This was not only an answer to the king's question, but an epitome of his own life! About seventeen... | |
| 1814 - 760 pages
...much closer examination. ' The testimony I mean, is that of the patriarch Jacob before Pharaoh : " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and I have not attained to those of my fathers :'' — a testimony full and express for the opinion we... | |
| 1815 - 706 pages
...Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 1 1 And Joseph placed his father and... | |
| Fanny Woodbury - 1815 - 298 pages
...difficulties, fears and troubles, I doubt not, but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, "Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
| Richard Warner - 1816 - 406 pages
...trouble;" and that Jacob's answer to Pharaoh, when he desired to know the patriarch's age, was, " few and evil have " the days of the years of my life been ;" and your own experience will have convinced you, that both these declarations are true. Pains of body,... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...fail ; so that the Christian shall be obliged to say, " I loathe it : I would not live always. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. There has been so much disquiet in my family, so much trouble among my children, so many disappointments,... | |
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