 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 586 pages
...made heaven and earth : Do not /"king* fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord: It is easier J™' ^i.. for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the?*-. law to fail: God, saith St. Paul, that made the1jActs xvii. world, and all things therein, seeing that he is 24.... | |
 | John Fleetwood - 1831 - 676 pages
...obligation ; for till the law is abrogated, the least of its precepts cannot be neglected. " It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke, xvi. 17. After treating of these particulars, he proceeded to consider the love of pleasure, so highly valued... | |
 | John Jewel - 1831 - 418 pages
...whereto I sent it." P And the same prophet saith : " The word of GOD shall stand for ever." * And " It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail," saith our Saviour : r for it is the word of the living and almighty GOD, of the GOD of Hosts, which... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...calamity was identified with the divine veracity, and became surer than heaven and earth : for " it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." The Jews imagined that they had nothing to fear : they thought that such a mighty judgment wasjmprobable,... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1831 - 180 pages
...shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."1 Again, " It is -easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."2 It seems impossible to avoid concluding from these passages that the whole moral code, as it... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. It. li. в. It is he had called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and die people Lu. xvi. 17- Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. /.//. xxi. 33. They... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1832 - 586 pages
...until John : since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - 1832 - 390 pages
..."since that <mie," says Christ, " the kingdom of God (the gospel dispensation) is preached." " It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." By this we learn that the law could not pass away, without being fulfilled. We now come again to the... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 780 pages
...John : since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 17 And it is ng with Jesus, 5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it tail. 18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, commilteth adultery : and whosoever... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DECALOGUE. conduct to men. He commanded obedience to the law. " And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail," Luke xvi. 17; see also Matt. v. 18. " If ye love me, keep my commandments,'' John xiv. 14. He iden. tifies himself... | |
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The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. 
