 | T. H. Croft MOODY - 1838 - 344 pages
...Lord's predestination respecting nations, we have also a striking instance in the following passage : "And the Lord said unto her [Rebecca], TWO NATIONS...be stronger than the OTHER PEOPLE ; and the elder shall serve the younger." (Gen. xxv. 23.) Here we are to observe, that the Israelites were the posterity... | |
 | T. H. Moody - 1838 - 324 pages
...Lord's predestination respecting nations, we have also a striking in stance in the following passage : "And the Lord said unto her [Rebecca], TWO NATIONS...be stronger than the OTHER PEOPLE ; and the elder shall serve the younger." (Gen. xxv. 23.) Here we are to observe, that the Israelites were the posterity... | |
 | William Hill Tucker - 1838 - 512 pages
...entreated the Lord. The Lord heard. She conceived ; and even before their birth predicted of her progeny; "Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people...be stronger than the other people ; and the elder shall serve the younger."* It is an axiom, universally received in relation to God's promises to the... | |
 | 1839 - 510 pages
...salvation, let the reader turn to the place from which the apostle quotes : " And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people...shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger," Gen. xxv, 23. Now, it would be absurd to suppose, that the Lord would be... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - 458 pages
...that two nations, ie the founders of two nations^ were in her womb, and leaving her to infer that the the one people shall be stronger than the other people ; and • the elder shall serve the younger. . 2 Sam. 8. 14. • ch. 27. 29. Mai. 1.3. Rom. 9. 12. intestine strife which... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1840 - 248 pages
...Jews : " As it is written, The elder shall serve the younger." Now this is written Genesis xxv. 23: "Two NATIONS are in thy womb, and two manner of PEOPLE...be stronger than the other PEOPLE ; and the elder," the descendants of the elder, " shall serve the younger." So far, indeed, was this prophecy from being... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...deformed by the rent, is brought forward as exhibiting a scriptural pattern of absolute predestination. womb, and two manner of people shall be separated...be stronger than the other people ; and the elder shall serve the younger.' Rom. ix. 30, 31—" What shall we say then ? that the Gentiles which followed... | |
 | Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.) - 1840 - 396 pages
...Gen. 25, In Genesis; And the Lord said unto Rebekah, Two nations 23. not are in fay womo, and tw-0 manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels...shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger. Hos. 2. Likewise in Hosea, / will call them that are not My people not V10... | |
 | James Macknight - 1841 - 802 pages
...pleasure of him who called Isaac the seed preferably to Ishmael, (gee ver. 7.) ["¿It -was said to Rebecca, * Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner...shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger.1 13 This election proceeded from God's own pleasure, as it is •written,... | |
 | Benjamin Shillingford - 1841 - 196 pages
...said, if it be so, why am I thus ? And she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people...be stronger than the other people ; and the elder shall serve the younger." I am fully aware that the above allegorical figures, Jacob and Esau, have... | |
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And the LORD said unto her, two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. 
