I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation [today the United States] and a company of nations [today the British Commonwealth] shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; and the LAND which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy ...
The Resurrection of the Dead: Jesus and Philo THE RESURRECTION THE DEAD: JESUS AND PHILO OF F. Gerald Downing, The Northern Ordination Course, M14 5JP. Manchester, That God announced to as the himself,according Scripture, God of Isaac and Jacob Jesus in the Abraham, provides synopti... FG...
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him. Filed Under:What does the Bible say aboutTagged With:bible...
"There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out." Luke 13:28 He means on that day:There will be many sad people "weeping" at the realization that they have ...
4 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according-to[a] the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham was declared-righteous by works, he has a boast— but not before God. His Righteousness Came By Faith 3 For what does the Scripture say?—“And Abraham believed God, and ...
אמה)17 suggested that the amah must have had a higher status than the shifḥah, since Hagar is only called by this term once she becomes the “wife” of Abraham.18 This pattern, however, does not hold true of the similar situations of Bilhah and Zilphah. Zilpah is never ...
In the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22, Abraham names the place where God supplied a sacrificial lamb, Jehovah Jireh. Jehovah is God’s name and Jireh means God will provide. Technically Jireh means God sees. God will see to it. He will provide what is necessary. So the place...
Now you, my friends, are children of the promise, like Isaac. Moreover, just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. But what does the scripture say? “Drive out the slave and her...
The purpose of this essay is to use Luther's lectures on "The Sacrifice of Isaac" as a case study of his approach to interpreting Scripture and the way in which he dealt with and used extra-scriptural material in his exegetical work. A marker of Luther's approach in Genesis 22 is his...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran