 | Otis Ainsworth Skinner - 1840 - 224 pages
...figurative ; and that the 1000 years were used as in 2 Peter iii. 8, where it is said, with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. This must be, otherwise, all the things revealed in Revelation did not shortly come to pass. By consulting... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1841 - 484 pages
...what depth of wisdom, and continuity of design, may we not expect to find in a revelation from Him, "with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years;" in which he has foretold innumerable events, depending upon the volitions of myriads of human beings,... | |
 | Anglican fathers - 1841 - 398 pages
...the heads of mortals before they are transacted on earth. He acknowledges no variation of date, to whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. The fearful scenes of the judgment are even now before Him : the righteous already saved, the wicked... | |
 | 1853 - 1048 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... | |
 | Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...superintendence, or too minute for his concern ; his eye never sleeps, nor is his right hand ever weary; with him cruel chains of Hindooism ? Why has Africa been given over to wit Well then it becomes all the children of Zion to be joyful in their King. For the present blessings... | |
 | 1841 - 362 pages
...soever may pass, before the actual day of judgment. For in the sight of God, as St. Peter tells us, " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. What are to us long distances of time, are absolutely nothing at all to him, who is the same yesterday,... | |
 | Reconciler, Robert Weaver - 1841 - 432 pages
...known all our works, and our wills too, as has been proved in another place. To him, in whose view " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," the whole period of the world's existence, and all the works and wills of its inhabitants, * Exod.... | |
 | William Williams Mather - 1841 - 310 pages
...changes may ap. pear of almost inconceivable duration ; but we art expressly told, that with the Creator "a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand." Geological Discoveries Consistent with the Bible. " It may seem just matter of surprise, that many... | |
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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. 
