 | Theology - 1825 - 658 pages
...Old Testament, was not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but to the end that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence be manifested to the world. Mr. Fleming, who was a very modest and learned dissenting... | |
 | 1826 - 606 pages
...expositors; that the prophecies of the Bible were given ' not to gratify men's curi' unities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after * they were...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event.' It must ever be perilous to their reputation, as well as fatal to their systems, to exceed this limit... | |
 | Johann Jahn - 1827 - 734 pages
...Serm. I. pp. 16. ss.] [A) " God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling «hem to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of... | |
 | 1827 - 602 pages
...are prophecies bearing internal evidence that they were not given to enable men to foreknow future things, but that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event. The inquiry will naturally follow : Do the unfulfilled prophecies oi Daniel and St. John appear to... | |
 | George D'Oyly - Sermons, English - 1827 - 532 pages
...Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to. foreknow things, but to the end that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not the wisdom or the skill of the interpreter, be then manifested thereby to the... | |
 | John Chappel Woodhouse - Bible - 1828 - 482 pages
...God gave these, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things ; but that after they were...fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world."1 Having thus informed... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 586 pages
...the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but to the end that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not the wisdom or the skill of the interpreter, be then manifested thereby to the... | |
 | William Hales - Bible - 1830 - 1222 pages
...prophecies of the OUl Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities, by enabling them ta-fore• know things, but that after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and His own Providence, not the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the events of... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments, not as given to gratify men's curiosities, by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and afford convincing arguments that the world is governed by Providence. He considers that there is so... | |
 | 1832 - 488 pages
...otherwise. He gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things; but that, after they were...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and the pro vidence of God, not the interpreter's, be manifested thereby to the world. For the event of... | |
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He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then... 
