 | Robert Mudie - 1830 - 406 sider
...magnitude,—measure power with a line, and reckon wisdom by the tables of chronology; but when the work is His, " with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," we find also that space is not an element of the wonderful in His works ; or, time of the wisdom with... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - 1830 - 682 sider
...round a lucid speck termed the Sun; ' but can have no place in him, of whom it is de' clared, that a thousand years are as one day, and ' one day as a thousand years. And even this decla' ration, magnificent as it is, falls infinitely short of the ' mark. When therefore... | |
 | 1830 - 986 sider
...will not bring such mighty things to pass. But let those who doubt bear in mind that, with Jehovah, a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. The old heavens and the old earth— the errors of Judaism and Paganism, may pass away, as will all... | |
 | 1837 - 336 sider
...things hoped for, — the evidence of things not seen," — with that faith which sees as with the eye of God, with whom a thousand years are as one day ; and in this exercise of living faith, we rejoice that " now is our salvation nearer than when we believed... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 402 sider
...measure power with a line, and reckon wisdom by the tables of chronology ; but when the work is His, ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years,' we find also that space is not an element of the wonderful in His works ; or time of the wisdom with... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1831 - 720 sider
...contemporaneous with that of the rest of the planets; but they show that creation is the work of Him with whom ' a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.' PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY. THE infinite varieties of motion in the heavens, and on the earth, obey a few laws,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1831 - 710 sider
...contemporaneous with that of the rest of the planets ; but they show that creation is the work of Him with whom ' a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.1 PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY. THE infinite varieties of motion in the heavens, and on the earth, obey... | |
 | John Murray - 1831 - 324 sider
...all the rules of criticism, can never be made to signify aught else than a natural day ; and though "a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," in the sight of GOD, as has been stated, were we to grant that they are to be understood as undefined... | |
 | 1831 - 336 sider
...the effect of his atoning sacrifice as complete now, as they were eighteen hundred years ago. To him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." " I doubt not his grace," said the poor youth, with a deep sigh ; " God forbid that I should. But,... | |
 | Sidney Willard - 1832 - 560 sider
...measure power with a line, and reckon wisdom by tables of chronology ; but when the work is His, ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years,' we find also that space is not an element of the wonderful in His works, or time of the wisdom with... | |
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Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. 
