 | William Paley - 1806 - 502 pages
...judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation : " Men verily swear by the greater, and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all Strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial oaths,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 436 pages
...carried in their hands. Hence it came to signify supplications for peace. GILL, in loc. No. 1366. — vi. 16. An oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.] The manner in which an oath was taken amongst the Jews, and to which the apostle, writing to such,... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 492 pages
...God, and the edification of our neighbour, as appears from Heb. vi 16. Men swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." Other scriptures are alleged by them to the same purport. Men who held these things should be acquitted... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 432 pages
...it as a known custom to terminate disputes in this manner. " Men. verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." - He manifestly speaks of this practice in terms of approbation, that he would treat with kindness... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 594 pages
...after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 1 6 For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...,uay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. c Heb. vi. 1C. For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 2 Cor. i. 23. [See letter b.] Isa. Ixv. 16. That he who blcsseth himself in the earth, shall bless... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 pages
...believed, and we are obliged to believe others upon their oath : " For men swear hy the greater; -and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife," according to our text ; for we may not think that any man is so forgetful of God, that he would undertake... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 pages
...judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation : " Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial oaths,... | |
 | Joseph Field - 1811 - 358 pages
...after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 428 pages
...carried in their hands. Hence it came to signify supplications for peace. GILL, in loc. No. 1366. — vi. 16. An oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.] The manner in which an oath was taken amongst the Jews, and to which the apostle, writing to such,... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
