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... strength attempered e'en to mine , If thus resisting I o'ermastered thine ; Then wilt thou too , my daring speech approve , For all thy wrestling was but tender love ! My name is JACOB - thou hast made me bold , Thine arms that have ...
... strength attempered e'en to mine , If thus resisting I o'ermastered thine ; Then wilt thou too , my daring speech approve , For all thy wrestling was but tender love ! My name is JACOB - thou hast made me bold , Thine arms that have ...
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... strength to strength . The fruitfulness which was at first but thirty - fold , becomes sixty - fold , and the latter an hundred - fold . In the blade the ear is formed ; the latter shoots pleasingly forth from its envelopement , and ...
... strength to strength . The fruitfulness which was at first but thirty - fold , becomes sixty - fold , and the latter an hundred - fold . In the blade the ear is formed ; the latter shoots pleasingly forth from its envelopement , and ...
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... strength , and the conflict lasts until the breaking of the day . ' 6 Who was this man ? Jacob did not know at first : but by degrees it became apparent to him who he was . If we form an opinion of him from the circumstance of his ...
... strength , and the conflict lasts until the breaking of the day . ' 6 Who was this man ? Jacob did not know at first : but by degrees it became apparent to him who he was . If we form an opinion of him from the circumstance of his ...
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... strength , both bodily and spiritual . Tears and prayers were the most powerful and victorious weapons with which he wrestled and overcame the Son of God . " Upbraid me , " will have been his prayerful language , amidst a flood of tears ...
... strength , both bodily and spiritual . Tears and prayers were the most powerful and victorious weapons with which he wrestled and overcame the Son of God . " Upbraid me , " will have been his prayerful language , amidst a flood of tears ...
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... strength to bear . We think it rational to trust to the creature , but absurd to hope in the living Creator . O what fools we are to act thus , seeing that we cannot change a single hair white or black ! How happy we might be did we ...
... strength to bear . We think it rational to trust to the creature , but absurd to hope in the living Creator . O what fools we are to act thus , seeing that we cannot change a single hair white or black ! How happy we might be did we ...
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Page 273 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 176 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 31 - 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, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 75 - Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
Page 19 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
Page 202 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the stairs, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, And thy countenance is comely.
Page 109 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 123 - We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?" Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Page 95 - And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
Page 73 - The Lord bless thee and keep thee, The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee, The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon thee and give thee peace ! — Num.