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3561 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 86.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… for Jehovah?therefore he finds it laughable to connect such great issues with so small a beginning.” It was evidently in this light that the apostle viewed …
3562 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 87.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah.” And now also, to strengthen her for the future, the same assurance concerning Ishmael was given to Hagar which had previously been made to Abraham …
3563 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 88.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, the Angel of the Covenant, arrests his hand. Abraham’s faith has now been fully proved, and it has been perfected. “A ram caught in the thicket” will …
3564 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 90.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… place “Jehovah Jireh,” “Jehovah seeth,” or “Jehovah provideth,” which means that He seeth for us, for, as even the term implieth, His providence, or providing, is just …
3565 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 94.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ; and Jehovah, who had so often proved a faithful God, and in obedience to whose will he now refused what might have seemed highly advantageous connections …
3566 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 94.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… by Jehovah—since this matter concerned the very essence of the covenant—to avoid every alliance with the Canaanites, and to apply to his “kindred.” And when …
3567 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 95.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… whether Jehovah had made his way prosperous or not.”
3568 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 95.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah had actually led him straight “to the house of his master’s brethren,” the man, fairly overcome by his feelings, “bowed down his head, and worshipped …
3569 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 95.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” remind us how easily the language of Abraham—in other words, religious language, is picked up by those who have really no claim to use it. The servant …
3570 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 96.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… last Jehovah listened to Isaac’s “entreaty,” “for his wife,” or rather, literally, “over against his wife,” for, as Luther strikingly remarks: “When I pray for any one …
3571 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 96.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah” its meaning, though we know not in what precise manner she did this. The answer of God indicated this at least quite clearly, that of her children …
3572 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 98.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… with Jehovah. ( Genesis 28:4 ) What of these things was spiritual, we may readily believe, Esau discredited and despised, and what was temporal, but yet future, as …
3573 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 99.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… sojourned, “Jehovah appeared unto him,” and specially directed him to remain there, at the same time renewing to him the promises He had made to Abraham. Both …
3574 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 108.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… glorious Jehovah Himself, Who spake to the lonely sleeper below: “I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac.” Silent in their ministry, the …
3575 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 109.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew it not.” Quite another fear now came upon him from that of loneliness or of doubt. It was awe at the conscious presence …
3576 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 111.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… served Jehovah; while Rachel was attached to the superstitions of her father’s house; and even the natural character of the elder sister fitted her better …
3577 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 112.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , “Surely Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction;” Simeon (“hearing”), “Because Jehovah hath heard that I was hated;” Levi (“cleaving,” or “joined”), in the hope “Now this time …
3578 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 112.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as Jehovah, but as Elohim, the God of nature, not the covenant-God of the promise.
3579 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 113.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , not Jehovah; while she seemed to see in the first of them a reward for giving Zilpah to her husband, whence the child’s name was called Issachar (“he gives,” or “he …
3580 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 114.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ), and Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake.” The same attempt to place Jehovah as the God of Abraham by the side of the god of Nahor—not denying, indeed, the existence …