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" Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. "
The Popular Science Monthly - Page 245
1885
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On Theological, Biblical, and Other Subjects

Robert Flint - 1905 - 482 pages
...measurable and limited by time, but not so the Divine life. Time is not assignable to it. With God " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Further, whereas the Divine life is self-sufficient and all-sufficient, the creaturely life, as a derived...
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Scripture and Truth: Dissertations

Benjamin Jowett - 1907 - 268 pages
...still say with Lord Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years '. But that is no reason for turning days into years, or for interpreting the things 'that must shortly...
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The Lives and Times of the Popes: Including the Complete Gallery ..., Volume 8

Artaud de Montor - 1911 - 324 pages
...observation of future ages. The world has not gone back a thousand years, but that Being exists with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. And, without ascribing any deviation from ordinary laws to these events, or supposing the common Father,...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1853 - 624 pages
...in the hollow of His hand, there is in nature nothing great or small. As His eternity makes it that a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years ; so doth His omnipotence make of equal and utmost ease the accomplishment of all His works. The creation...
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Days of My Age: Chimney Corner Chats for the Home Circle

William Ford Nichols - 1923 - 418 pages
...loves of life. PRAYER FOR PROGRESSIVE BUILDING GRACE CATHEDRAL, SAN FRANCISCO O Almighty God, with Whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years, we render Thee high praise and hearty thanks that Thou didst put it into the hearts of Thy servants...
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The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 3; Volume 9

1924 - 696 pages
...observation of future ages. The world had not gone back a thousand years, but that Being existed •with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Pius VII was able to leave his exile in 1814 and returned to Rome. Bat on April llth, his anniversary,...
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The Problem of Immortality: Studies in Personality and Value

Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff - 1924 - 440 pages
...mechanical notions of finitude, cycles, and revolutions. So the truth has escaped him that with God a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years, because God's work is always being done, and never done with. On the road of values the signpost reads...
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The Romance of World Trade

Alfred Pearce Dennis - 1926 - 512 pages
...the void. There they sit smiling at grief, smiling at decay, inscrutable, time defying sitters with whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years — sitting figures over whom the centuries pass and leave no mark. It is safe to wager that these...
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A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Volume 1

Andrew Dickson White - 1926 - 452 pages
...episcopate, accepted the new revelation in the following words : " It seems something more majestic, more befitting him to whom a thousand years are as one day, thus to impress his will once for all on his creation, and provide for all the countless varieties...
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The Prophets

Edward Chauncey Baldwin - 1927 - 256 pages
...simple mathematical calculation estimate them, for are we not informed by the inspired word that to God a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years? God's Sabbath rest that followed the work of creation has been, they say, continuous ever since, having...
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