| Patrick Campbell Macdougall - Philosophy - 1852 - 358 pages
...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 manifested to the world;" — this being the case,... | |
| John Farrar - Bible - 1852 - 692 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 prescience, not that of the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.'' The principal... | |
| 1852 - 528 pages
...prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity hy enabling them to foreknow thmgs, 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... | |
| Benjamin Elliott Nicholls - Bible - 1853 - 410 pages
...prophets. 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 his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world." The following... | |
| David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...the prophecies of the Old and New Testament 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... | |
| Baptists - 1855 - 878 pages
...prophecies of " the Old and New Testament 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... | |
| John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 360 pages
...these [Revelatums] and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to satisfy men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but, that after they were...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event; and His prescience, not that of the interpreter, be then manifested thereby to the world." Sir Isaac thus... | |
| 1857 - 1824 pages
...prophecies of the Old Testament not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, and not the interpreter, be then manifested to the world." In addition to these... | |
| Walter Farquhar Hook - Theology - 1859 - 826 pages
...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 manifested thereby to the world. — There is already... | |
| Philip Charles Soulbien Desprez - Bible - 1861 - 540 pages
...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, and not the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world." (Sir Isaac... | |
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