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Hebrews 11:32

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Need I add anything more? Time would fail me if I attempted to relate the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, and those of David, Samuel, and the Prophets.

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Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.

There, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets, in the Kingdom of God, while you yourselves are being driven outside.

'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets,' answered Abraham, 'they will not be persuaded, even if some one were to rise from the dead.'"

There are many other things which Jesus did; but, if every one of them were to be recorded in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not hold the books that would be written.

To him it is that all the Prophets bear witness, when they say that every one who believes in him receives through his Name forgiveness of sins."

For about four hundred and fifty years. In later times he gave them Judges, of whom the Prophet Samuel was the last.

Yes, and all the Prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.

But what if our wrong-doing makes God's righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a man.) Heaven forbid!

What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation?

What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied?

What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet.

Brothers, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, take the Prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of man, but men, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God.

I want you to recall what was foretold by the holy Prophets, as well as the Command of our Lord and Savior given to you through your Apostles.




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