 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...as Moses reminds them in that solemn and pathetic address at the cud of the book of Deuteronomy: " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance," Deut. xxxiii. 8, 9. It... | |
 | Twenty essays - 1838 - 212 pages
...announced him. The Christian must view with peculiar interest God's care of his church in all ages. " When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel." He set up the patriarchs as lights shining in dark places, and made them blessings to the earth. He... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee; when the Most High divided the nations their inheritance, when he separated the...according to the number of the Children of Israel." The other passage is Acts xvii. 26, where St Paul, in his celebrated pration to the Athenian philosophers,... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 570 pages
...made in the sacred writings, than to any actual obscurity or perplexity in the writings themselves. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...According to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. It must be confessed that... | |
 | 1839 - 868 pages
...many generation? : ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee, — When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel." Many learned men are of opinion that some of the families of Noah dispersed in an orderly manner to... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...from the remembrance of the days of old : " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel. Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto... | |
 | Charles Rollin, James Bell - 1839 - 666 pages
...they had been settled in different countries by the appointment of Provide ce. 1 Gen. xi. 8, 9. • " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel," (whom he had m view.) This is one of the interpretations given to this passage. Vitle Bp. Mont '•... | |
 | John Wilson - 1840 - 378 pages
...procedure with regard to Israel. In that remarkable song of Moses, Deut. xxxii. we are told that — "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance;...According to the number of the children of Israel." Why should the Lord thus set the bounds of other nations, according to the number of a people not yet... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 160 pages
...interference for the future settlement of the church in Abraham's family, in the land- of Canaan. " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel." See also Haggai ii. 7; and Heb. xii. 26, 27. 2. In the exercise of his power over all flesh, he sometimes... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...exceeding wisdom and foresight. Such texts as these seem never to recur to their minds: — " When the Must High divided to the nations their inheritance, when...according to the number of the children of Israel." — Deut. xxxii. 8. The permission of evil in the world is a question which we are under no necessity... | |
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When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 
