 | William Carl Placher - 1983 - 332 pages
...1200, certainly intended to try: To me is said in the person of the prophet, "I have set thee over nations and over kingdoms, to root up and to pull down, and to waste and to destroy, and to rebuild and to plant." . . . You see then who is this servant set over the household, truly... | |
 | Palladius - 1985 - 260 pages
...erect later the firm foundation of truth, as it was said by the prophet: / have set you this day over nations, and over kingdoms, to root up and to pull down, and to waste and to destroy and to build 2 '" (the one case refers to him as a farmer, the other, as a builder). Then he stirred... | |
 | Sidney Z. Ehler, John B. Morrall - 1967 - 646 pages
...is verified the prophecy of the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Church and the power of the Church: "Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations and over kingdoms," etc. If, therefore, the earthly power err, it shall be judged by the spiritual power; if the lesser... | |
 | Malcolm Barber - 1992 - 618 pages
...uncompromisingly in a famous passage. 'To me is said in the person of the prophet, "I have set thee over nations and over kingdoms, to root up and to pull down, and to waste and to destroy, and to build and to plant." (Jeremiah 1:10)' (Tierney 1964:131-2). On the other hand, Innocent had... | |
 | Henri de Lubac - 1999 - 383 pages
...in the world as a "great ferment of discord".85 God says to her, as he did to one of his Prophets: "Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and...up and to pull down, and to waste and to destroy" 79 See André Malraux, La Monnaie de l'Absolu (1950), p. 50; also p. 51: "A civilization of man alone... | |
 | Joseph Canning - 2005 - 294 pages
...heavy emphasis on texts from the Old Testament to justify papal claims, such as 'I have set thee over nations and over kingdoms, to root up and to pull down, and to waste and to destroy, and to build and to plant' (Jeremiah 1:10). 124 The traditional New Testament proof-texts were, of... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 653 pages
...taught by the words of Him who alone knows the strength and method of His work : " Behold," He says : " I have set thee this day over the nations and over...up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant. " 1 He points out that for getting rid of noxious things four things are... | |
 | 1903 - 842 pages
...hasten to find a remedy for this great evil, considering as addressed to Us that Divine command : " Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations and...up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant" (Jerem. i., 10). But, cognizant of Our weakness, We recoiled in terror... | |
 | Robert L Moyer - 2000 - 24 pages
...they merely declared them about to be done. Jeremiah's commission in 1:10 is an illustration of this: "Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant."... | |
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I have given my words in thy mouth : lo I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build and to plant, saith the Lord Almighty. 
