 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...patriarchs, says : " they confessed, that they were pilgrims and strangers on the earth: and looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God," Heb. xi. 10, 13. The meaning therefore of that text is, in general, that the doctrine of a future state... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...patriarchs says : " they confessed, that they were pilgrims and strangers on the earth : and looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God," Heb. xi. 10, 13. The meaning therefore of that text is, in general, that the doctrine of a future state... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey - 1837 - 422 pages
...earth, plainly declaring that they sought and desired a better country, that is, an heavenly, and looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Heb. 11: 13-17. Hence, saith the apostle, the Gentiles which " were without Christ, being aliens from... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...patriarchs says : " they confessed, that they were pilgrims and strangers on the earth : and looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God," Heb. xi. 10, 13. The meaning therefore of that text is, in general, that the doctrine of a future state... | |
 | Samuel Abraham Walker - Missions - 1847 - 658 pages
...in Jesus, while her sorrowing husband, holding her hand, pronounced the words in Numbers vi. 24 — 26, over her. She now rests from her labours, having...has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.') The death of the Rev. John Godfrey Wilhelm, removed from the Mission the last surviving representative... | |
 | Samuel Abraham Walker - Missions - 1847 - 662 pages
...in Jesus, while her sorrowing husband, holding her hand, pronounced the words in Numbers vi. 24 — 26, over her. She now rests from her labours, having...infant in her arms, at the side of the late Rev. GR Nyliinder, Missionary of our Society, waiting together for the resurrection of the just. (By faith)... | |
 | United States. 59th Congress, 3d session - 1899 - 184 pages
...and inevitable outgrowth of his convictions. In all things he seemed, like Abraham of old, to seek for "a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God." It was this which gave to his life and character its unusual unity and poise. He stood — Like some... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 280 pages
...faith', he writes, Abraham 'sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country ... for he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God'. Abraham, Abel, Noah, and Sara all died before the promises had been fulfilled. Yet though they 'died... | |
 | John C. L. Gibson - Bibles - 1981 - 236 pages
...in turn abandons the Patriarchal homeland, not to go back to the great city of Ur, but to go forward looking for a city "which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God" (Heb. 11:10). We end our commentary then with a glimmer of hope amid the encircling gloom of the world's... | |
 | Ben Campbell Johnson - Religion - 1988 - 160 pages
...enables ministers to labor on with the patient expectancy that was modeled in Abraham. "For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God" (Heb. 11:10, paraphrased). In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many... | |
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By faith he [Abraham] sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 
