 | Sermons, English - 1837 - 518 pages
...was the confession of the good old man, Jacob, upon a question put to him hy the Egyptian monarch : " And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." And such as was Jacob's life, is our life. Oh, brethren, that we could embrace this grand sentiment... | |
 | William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pages
...JACOB'S INTERVIEW WITH PHARAOH. GENESIS XLVII. 8, 9. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art tkou ? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage, Mr. SCOTT observes upon this verse that we have in it, " a very uncommon answer given to a very common... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...ambitious of taking from them. 2. " The days of the years of my pilgrimage," says Jacob to Pharaoh, " are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." || — From this speech it is concluded, that Moses taught & future state: and, especially since the... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1838 - 438 pages
...exquisitely simple and affecting, than the answer, which this inquiry drew, from the venerable patriarch : " The days of the years of my pilgrimage, are an hundred...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." But I shall not stay, to enlarge upon the circumstances of this particular case. I shall, at once,... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...How old art thou V " And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, ' The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.' " And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh."* Of the remaining books of Scripture... | |
 | William Hill Tucker - Bible - 1838 - 512 pages
...atone for this error of his judgment. It is impossible to read the affecting avowal to Pharaoh ; " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage,"* without feeling that the man who uttered it, in the sorrows of his soul, had received heavy retribution... | |
 | 1840 - 420 pages
...Jacob ; and therefore when he was called in to stand before Pharoah, and was asked his age, he said, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.' ' 1 have always considered myself only a pilgrim ; rough has been much of my road ; but it has conducted... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...Jacob, uHo\v old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage arc ll follow thee. And he said unto him, •' Go back again : for what have I done 21 to thee? And 10 in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11... | |
 | Great Britain - 1844 - 582 pages
...in his light to see perfect light." CAH « HOW OLD ART THOU ?" A NEW YEIR'S SERMON. Genesis xlvii. 8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ?...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. " How old art thou ?"— A very natural and frequent question ; one, when properly asked, which we... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1839 - 360 pages
...salvation," 331 LECTURE VIII. GENESIS XLVII. 8, 9. " And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou 1 and Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." WE are this morning to review the closing scene of the life of that patriarch who has formed the subject... | |
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their... 
