...in every age! O grant that I may faithful be To clearer light vouchsafed to me! HEBREWS 6:16-19 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,...

..."When God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater. He sware by Himself;...for men verily swear by the greater; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel,...

...used to justify taking an oath as evidence in court, particularly in cases involving the clergy: 'For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife' (Hebrews 6:16). 23 The second comes from the Apocalypse: 'The Angel also, which John saw in the Apocalypse,...

...multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,...

...hath brought. But let my conscience truly say, My soul in peace departs away. HEBREWS 6:76-6:79 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,...

...when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself. 16 For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,...

...the apostle says, "Because he can swear by no greater than himself, he says. As I live, " &c. "For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of the counsel,...

...Jesus Christ our Lord, I die daily." As Petrus Cantor pointed out, they also adduced Heb. 6: 16, "For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." They might further have cited, and probably did, the example of God himself swearing by himself, as...

...the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning that matter. Genesis 24:2, 3, 4-9 . . . men verily swear by the greater; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Hebrews 6:16 Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto...

...multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is an end of all strife. [This is speaking of a covenant between two men] Wherein God, willing more abundantly...