| Johann August W. Neander - Church history - 1838 - 462 pages
...nothing made him so great, as those blessed words, which he spoke to God, saying: ' Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin ; — and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book.' Such was also David, wherefore he said : ' Lo I have sinned, and I have done wickedly : but these sheep,... | |
| Ernest Verity - Religion - 2003 - 618 pages
...Moses pleaded with God to forgive Israel the sin of idolatry with the words; Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written, Consider the answer in Exodus 32:33-34, And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever... | |
| John R Rice - 2000 - 24 pages
...said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I... | |
| John Phillips - Religion - 2003 - 476 pages
...people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold," he cried. "Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written" (Exod. 32:31—32). It is the privilege of God's children to draw near to... | |
| Henry E. Meredith - Religion - 2003 - 674 pages
...Moses referred to when speaking with God on behalf of the people of Israel. "Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written" (Exodus 32:32). The Psalmist called it the "book of the living" in Psalm 69:28.... | |
| M. L. Andreasen - Religion - 2006 - 260 pages
...prayer is so called because in it we are praying for others. When Moses prayed, "Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written," his prayer was one of intercession. Exodus 32:32. So was Paul's, when he... | |
| Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 388 pages
..."Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people. . . .Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of thy book" (Exod. 32:12, 32). On almost every page of Midrash, the Tzaddik's pleading or simply his righteousness... | |
| Edward Reaugh Smith - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 364 pages
...to judgment are compatible with either view on reincatnation. Ex 32,32-33: 32"But now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy hook which thou has written." But the Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will... | |
| Anne Dutton - Christian life - 2003 - 484 pages
...than a contentment with it. And though the words of Moses (Exod. xxxii. 32), "Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin .... and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written;" and of Paul (Rom. ix. 3), "For I could even with that myself were accursed... | |
| Alan Segal - History - 2010 - 882 pages
...likely, to be identified with the mysterious book Moses mentions in Exodus 32:32: "But now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." Whatever the book, the metaphor dramatizes God's clear and predestined plan... | |
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