 | Edward Robinson - 1838 - 1076 pages
...the distinction of time. But in the sight of him, who is the same yesterday, to-day and forever, " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Accordingly men are hurried and fretful in their proceedings, impatient of delay, and ever hastening... | |
 | 1838 - 1082 pages
...the distinction of time. But in the sight of him, who is the same yesterday, to-day and forever, " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Accordingly men are hurried and fretful in their proceedings, impatient of delay, and ever hastening... | |
 | 1839 - 842 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. And, without ascribing any deviation from ordinary laws to these events, or supposing that the common... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 444 pages
...childhood, which the old man can just remember ! Surely, in the sight of God, who lives and fills eternity, a " thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years !" 2. You see why the Bible calls this life a vapor. I If one of these little boys had an errand to... | |
 | 1839 - 596 pages
...certain period may with equal propriety be called a day in the divine councils, where we are told that a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. But while the numbers 7, 10, 1000, are often used indefinitely in scripture language; the more precise... | |
 | 1839 - 812 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 i thousand years. And, without ascribing any deviation from ordinary laws to these events, or supposing... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 512 pages
...as really as he is to us, in the light of Divine truth. And, therefore, seeing that " with the Lord, a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," they embraced the promises, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." The... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1840 - 306 pages
...comparative. He is neither restricted by limits, nor affected by contrast. All is absolute with him. A thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years : a planet's orbit is as a needle's eye, and a needle's eye as a planet's orbit ; to create a universe... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - 544 pages
..." In the day in which God made the world," &c. It is also said, in Scripture, that " with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Without attempting to go minutely into the subject of the earth's formation, as explained and taught... | |
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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. 
