 | Teacher, Young teacher - 1875 - 382 pages
...prophets. " He gave .... the prophecies of the Old Testa" ment, 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." If there be... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Bible - 1876 - 220 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 interpreter's wisdom, be then manifested thereby to the world." 797 PARKER... | |
 | Alexander Cruden - 1879 - 1186 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 that of the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world." And Bishop... | |
 | Bible - 1882 - 304 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 that of the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world." And Bishop... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - Inventions - 1883 - 700 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 His own Providence, and not the interpreter's, be then manifested to the world.* Newton was never married,... | |
 | Missions - 1842 - 726 pages
...nay, it is most openly and absurdly untrue, to say that ' the prophecies were not given to enable men to foreknow things ; but that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event.' Let us try the truth of this statement by one or two prophecies, fulfilled and unfulfilled. Was the... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Baptist - 1886 - 810 pages
...interpret it. Sir Isaac Newton : " God gave the prophecies, 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 thereby manifested to the world." 9. Evidential force... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 548 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 — not the wisdom and skill of the interpreters — be manifested to cho world.—... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Baptists - 1907 - 1218 pages
...interpret it. Sir Isaac Newton: "God gave the prophecies, 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, aud his own providence, not the interpreter's, be thereby manifested to the world." Alexander McLaren... | |
 | Isaac Newton, Sir William Whitla - Bible - 1922 - 378 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 x then manifested thereby to the world. For the event... | |
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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... 
