| Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1829 - 412 pages
...men which have lived subsequently to the death of the Messiah. There is no tense with God. With him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years ; and as there is but one way into his kingdom, even t1"? Lamb slain from thf foundation of the world,... | |
| Robert Mudie - Natural history - 1830 - 406 pages
...power with a line, and reckon wisdom by the tables of chronology; but when the work is His, " with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," we find also that space is not an element of the wonderful in His works ; or, time of the wisdom with... | |
| Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...round a lucid speck termed the Sun; ' but can have no place in him, of whom it is de' clared, that a thousand years are as one day, and ' one day as a thousand years. And even this decla' ration, magnificent as it is, falls infinitely short of the ' mark. When therefore... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1830 - 986 pages
...will not bring such mighty things to pass. But let those who doubt bear in mind that, with Jehovah, a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. The old heavens and the old earth— the errors of Judaism and Paganism, may pass away, as will all... | |
| Mary Somerville - Celestial mechanics - 1831 - 720 pages
...contemporaneous with that of the rest of the planets; but they show that creation is the work of Him with whom ' a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.' PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY. THE infinite varieties of motion in the heavens, and on the earth, obey a few laws,... | |
| John Murray - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 pages
...all the rules of criticism, can never be made to signify aught else than a natural day ; and though "a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," in the sight of GOD, as has been stated, were we to grant that they are to be understood as undefined... | |
| Christian literature - 1831 - 336 pages
...the effect of his atoning sacrifice as complete now, as they were eighteen hundred years ago. To him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." " I doubt not his grace," said the poor youth, with a deep sigh ; " God forbid that I should. But,... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 402 pages
...with a line, and reckon wisdom by the tables of chronology ; but when the work is His, ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years,' we find also that space is not an element of the wonderful in His works ; or time of the wisdom with... | |
| Mary Somerville - Astronomy - 1831 - 710 pages
...contemporaneous with that of the rest of the planets ; but they show that creation is the work of Him with whom ' a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.1 PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY. THE infinite varieties of motion in the heavens, and on the earth, obey... | |
| Sidney Willard - American literature - 1832 - 560 pages
...power with a line, and reckon wisdom by tables of chronology ; but when the work is His, ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years,' we find also that space is not an element of the wonderful in His works, or time of the wisdom with... | |
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