 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit...  The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy - Page 44by William Paley - 1799Full view - About this book
 | Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.) - 1844 - 478 pages
...why doth Thy wrath wax hot against Thy11' people? and so on. Then again below, And the Zorrflb.v.14. repented of the evil which He thought to do unto His people. Seest thou that the anger of God was softened ? Seest thou that the offence was atoned for ? And he... | |
 | John Harris - 1844 - 336 pages
...impassioned intercession of Moses. It held back his uplifted arm ; it changed the purpose of his heart ; " and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people." Again they incurred his displeasure by their rebellious discontent ; " and the fire... | |
 | Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.) - 1844 - 468 pages
...why doth Thy wrath wax hot against Thy ' people? and so on. Then again below, And the Zordlb.v.14. repented of the evil which He thought to do unto His people. Seest thou that the anger of God was softened ? Seest thou that the offence was atoned for ? And he... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pages
...this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14 H_; 15 II And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in hs... | |
 | William Bridge - 1845 - 468 pages
...Sometimes he will return again, but with reserves of afterjudgments. In Exod. xxxii., Moses prayed, and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people, verse 14. But, saith he, verse 34 : " Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit then" sin... | |
 | George Griffin - 1845 - 358 pages
...time," and add fifteen years to the span of his life. — 2 Kings, xx., 1-11. At the prayer of Moses, " the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people." — Exodus, xxxii., 14. When the penitent cry of Nineveh was wafted towards heaven, " God saw their... | |
 | William Penington Burgess - 1845 - 300 pages
...of sitting quietly, and leaving be betook himself to earne all his might, and did not desist, till the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Thus by the prayers of Moses the hands of Omnipotence were tied, and Jehovah himself could not resist... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1845 - 304 pages
...your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever." Thus said Moses ; and lo, continues the history, " the Lord repented of the evil •which he thought to do unto his people." As soon as the great lawgiver became certain that Israel was not to be destroyed, he descended from... | |
 | Patrick D. Miller - 1990 - 284 pages
...the rather startling word that the Lord listened to Moses' prayer and heeded it (cf. Exod. 32:14 — "And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people"). It is startling because it suggests that a change of mind is possible for God and... | |
 | G. Peter Fleck - 1993 - 140 pages
...the face of the earth?' Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent from this evil against thy people."... And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people. In the eleventh chapter of Numbers, the children of Israel complained about their diet... | |
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