 | 1883 - 1052 pages
...the 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." Macaulay wrote : " The history of the Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization.... | |
 | John Drury - 1989 - 220 pages
...may 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,' [II Peter 3. 8]. But that is no reason for turning days into years, or for interpreting the things... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - 2000 - 1092 pages
...may 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... | |
 | Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - 2001 - 284 pages
...which we in vain look for in the other parts of the universe. They date the beginning of time [and] show that creation is the work of Him with whom "a...are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." (Mech Ixix-lxx) In this case, as in many others throughout Somerville's works, tracing the mazes leads... | |
 | Religious tract society - 424 pages
...? It is God's ; and now it is yours. Oh ! joyful or terrific thought, indeed it is yours ! To God, a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years ; both are so insignificant that one hardly differs from the other. The same assertion will apply to... | |
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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. 
