 | 1827 - 590 pagina’s
...the existing mortality in that City. By the Reverend PETER ROE. " For we are strangers before Лec, and sojourners, as were all our fathers ; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding." 1 Chron. xxix. 15. THE transactions recorded in this chapter are of a peculiarly interesting... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - 1827 - 710 pagina’s
...sooner probably to the most vigorous and healthy than he is aware ; for " we are strangers before God, and sojourners, as were all our fathers : our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding."* But there are some to whom the language of the text is peculiarly applicable. It is so to... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pagina’s
...13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 14 But who am I, and what it ther side. But he told not his father. 2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah, under a tbee, and of thine own have we given tbee. 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1828 - 302 pagina’s
...with him, and made such rich promises to him, Gen. xvii. 3. See David's strain, 1 Chron. xxix. 15 ; But who am I, and what is my people, that we should...come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. This, the apostle gives as the sovereign preservative against the swelling poison of self conceit,... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pagina’s
...give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank the--, and praise thy glorious name. 14 D ; and when they lifted up their voice 16 For we are strangers before thee and sojourners, as were all our fathers : oui days on the earth... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pagina’s
...Eph. ii. 8. SBCT. n. God in Christ, doeth all freely ; and that according to Promise. — John xv. i. WHO am I, and what is my people, that we should be...come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. — 1 Chron. xxix. 14. Yet the Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1828 - 262 pagina’s
...that temple he was forbidden to build, renouncing at the same moment all credit for his munificence. " Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be...come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee." But David was not merely a " mighty man of valour;" he possessed qualities it was impossible any heathen... | |
 | Cyrus Yale - 1828 - 364 pagina’s
...and to give strength unto all ; Now, therefore, our God, we thank thee and praise thy glorious name. For, we are strangers before thee and sojourners,...days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.' Teach me, O my God, to study what I shall render unto thee for the favor of this temporal... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pagina’s
...Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 14 But who am I, and what i.\ n 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth... | |
 | Annie Dillard - 2009 - 180 pagina’s
...vagrancy, a praying people's knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people's intuition of sharp loss: "For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners,...days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding." We don't know where we belong, but in times of sorrow it doesn't seem to be here, here with... | |
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But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee. 
