 | Richard Watson - 1857 - 508 էջ
...promise, that he was a stranger and pilgrim on the earth, and that he desired a better country ; " for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God," Heb. xi, 10. The Jewish institute was designed for the benefit of the world. The judgments and mercies connected... | |
 | Benjamin Richings - 1858 - 364 էջ
...2, 3. We have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. l1 Cor. v. 1. He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Heb. xi. 10. The Lord knoweth the days of the upright ; and their inheritance shall be for ever. Psalm xxxvii. 18.... | |
 | David Caldwell - 1859 - 592 էջ
...suffered martyrdom, in attestation of their conviction of its truth, Heb. xi. 35; and that Abraham "looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Heb. xi. 10. It is absurd to affirm, that the Old Testament scriptures do not teach human immortality and future... | |
 | 1861 - 72 էջ
...itself. Isaiah Ix. 20. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. 1 Cor. ix. 25. He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Heb. xi. 10. This word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 302 էջ
...country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." (Heb. xi. 10.) He then speaks of God having prepared a city for the descendants of Abraham who died m the faith ;... | |
 | William Lister - 1861 - 480 էջ
...country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." (Heb. xi. 8-10.) But in his lifetime upon earth Abraham did not possess a foot of the promised land (Acts vii.... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1862 - 460 էջ
...not ashamed to be called their God : for He hath prepared for them a city." — Heb. xi. 14-16. "For He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." — Heb. xi. 10. It is not too much to say, that God's great universe has been built as a theatre for the development... | |
 | Herman Douglas - 1862 - 324 էջ
...country ; Dwelling in tabernacles With Isaac and Jacob, The heirs with him of the same promise, For he looked for a city Which hath foundations, Whose builder and maker is God." Heb. xi. 9, 10. To the saints of the New Testament, he says — " Ye are come Unto the City of the living God,... | |
 | William Gurnall - 1862 - 848 էջ
...this salvation, and therefore, he ' sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, — for he looked for a city, which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God :' Heb. xi. 9, 10. Canaan would have satisfied him well enough if God had not told him of a heaven that he meant... | |
 | John Locke (Wesleyan minister.) - 1862 - 560 էջ
...hands, eternal in the heavens ;" (2 Cor. v. 1 ;) and he also informs us that the patriarch Abraham looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." (Heb. xi. 10.) St. Petei blesses God for the hope of " an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth... | |
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By faith he 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 hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God. 
