 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1860 - 296 pages
...our Blessed Lord Himself has told us is not in our power. " It is not for you to know the timrs and seasons which the Father has put in His own power." (Acts i. 7.) They are not designed to gratify thu cravings of a vain curiosity. They do not enable us to foresee... | |
 | Daniel Denison Whedon - Bible - 1860 - 440 pages
...to know the times and seasons," says our Saviour to his apostles in reference to this very point, " which the Father has put in his own power." Acts i, 7. And St. Paul says in very similar words, (1 Thess. v, 1, 2 :) "But of the times and the seasons, brethren,... | |
 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - Lutheran Church - 1862 - 206 pages
...behold the Savior's glorious epiphany. But I can find no authority for thus undertaking to fix " the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power." As I read the Scriptures, it contradicts some of God's plainest declarations and is wholly irreconcilable... | |
 | John Cumming - 1864 - 664 pages
...time restore again the kingdom to Israel ?" The answer of Jesus was, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power." He did not reply that their expectation was vain, but that their desire to know the time of the event... | |
 | David Alfred Doudney - 1864 - 344 pages
...declared to His disciples, upon the eve of His ascension to glory, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power." The Lord intends that the very uncertainty of both the time and the manner of His working, should lead,... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn - Bible - 1865 - 560 pages
...restore the kingdom to Israel, He rebuked their curiosity by the answer, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in His own power." This specific announcement, delivered in a face-toface communication, we may be sure, from the fundamental... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1867 - 890 pages
...remain alive till Christ's second coming. Our Lord said to his Apostles, " It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power." (Acts i. 7-) But it would be very erroneous to say (as has been recently affirmed by some), that St. Paul expected... | |
 | Paton James Gloag - Bible - 1870 - 468 pages
...Thou at this tune the kingdom to Israel ? 7 But He said to them, It pertains not to you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power. 8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be my witnesses... | |
 | J. Alexander - 1870 - 286 pages
...that it rests with God alone to appoint the time for it. " It is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father has put in his own power." (Acts i. 7). On a previous occasion he had made to His twelve apostles a promise tending to the same end : " In... | |
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It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power. 
