 | Gary Cobb - Religion - 2007 - 398 pages
...Tribes and Joseph...as it is with the nation of Israel and its Old Covenant. . . (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or...election might stand, not of works, but of him that catteth;) It -was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. (Romans 9:11-12) God's ultimate... | |
 | Alexander Roberts - Religion - 2007 - 706 pages
...secret, as when the Apostle Paul, in discussing the case of Jacob and Esau, says ; " For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or...to election might stand, not of works, but of Him who calleth, it was said, The elder shall serve the younger, as it is written, Jacob have I loved,... | |
 | Cherub Angela Nicholls - Religion - 2007 - 122 pages
...who were unborn to illustrate his point. He contends that for the children not yet being bora, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of...according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls. It was said to Rebecca, the oldest, would serve the younger. • As it is written, Jacob... | |
 | Alexander Roberts - Religion - 2007 - 616 pages
...Isanc," she received answer ' from the inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for Word, " that the purpose of God according to election might stand,...works, but of Him that calleth, it was said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people are Thy possession." ' And as from the multitude... | |
 | Gary T. Mayer - Philosophy - 2007 - 492 pages
...so, but also Rebekah conceiving from one, our father Isaac; for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of...according to election might stand, not of works, but of the One calling.(Rom. 9:6-1 1) The NASB translates Romans 9:6 with the added word "descended": But... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 636 pages
...meaning that any one could be worthy through his own mertt, but in the same sense as the apostle said, ' Not of works, but of Him that calleth; it was said unto her, " The elder shall serve the younger"* (Ron, b. It.f2), — a calling which he affirms to pertain to the purpose of Gc1d. For which reason... | |
 | William Mulder - Religion - 2007 - 310 pages
...heart and body, which together are biblically called, the flesh. But for children not yet born, not having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand (hold true) even before they exist, God demonstrates salvation is not by the works of man but by Him... | |
 | Edoardo Crisafulli - History - 2003 - 364 pages
...a footnote: "\X'hen Rebekah also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the promise of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) it was said... | |
 | Abraham Kuyper - Religion - 2007 - 709 pages
...complete misunderstanding of the reality of the grace of God. XXVIII. The Coming of the Called " That the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but ol Him that calteth." —Ram, ix. n. THE question is, whether the elect cooperate in the call. We say.... | |
 | Reverend Alexander Roberts - Religion - 2007 - 544 pages
...they were not yet born, and had not done anything either good or evil, in order that God's purpose according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, if at such a period this was said, how if we do not go back to the works done before this life, can... | |
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Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written,... 
