 | John Keble - 1837 - 442 halaman
...said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. Gen. xxvii. 34. fCompare Hebrews \li. !7. He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with teats.)* " AND is there in GOD'S world so drear a place tf Where the loud bitter cry is rais'd in vain?... | |
 | Charles Frederick Childe - 1839 - 448 halaman
...BIRTHRIGHT. FOR YE KNOW HOW THAT AFTERWARD, WHEN HE WOULD HAVE INHERITED THE BLESSING, HE WAS REJECTED : FOR HE FOUND NO PLACE OF REPENTANCE, THOUGH HE SOUGHT IT CAREFULLY WITH TEARS." TIMES of persecution are seasons of peculiar temptation. When striving against sin seems likely to... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1839 - 524 halaman
...sold his birthright, when he would afterwards have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for " he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." At the recollection of a better f text, the words of that disciple (blessed above all men) whom Jesus... | |
 | Jemima Shedd - 1839 - 244 halaman
...birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears — Heb. 12 : 16, 17. Bsau, with tears, after selling his birthright, carefully sought for the blessing... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1839 - 262 halaman
...what many have not seen. Seek. Seek first the kingdom of heaven ; let it be sought with care. Esau found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Sell. Buy the truth and sell it not. Esau sold his birth-right to Jacob. The French government sold... | |
 | 1840 - 504 halaman
...For ye know how that, afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." In this last respect, Esau's repentance is an image of that despair which will sei/te the wicked when... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 halaman
...is ever ready to set inherited the blessing, he was its birthright for the pottage, rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. For ye are not come unto the moos' that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor naU1 blackness,... | |
 | Asher Moore - 1841 - 228 halaman
...same sense of the word repentance also occurs in the passage relating to Esau, Heb. xii. 17, " For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." It was not personal reformation of character that this man sought, but a mere change or revocation... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1841 - 230 halaman
...received it back, but could not, as it was the will of God that Jacob should be made lord, of all. "He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb. xii. 17. BISHOP, an overseer, or inspector. The word was used among the Athenians to mean such... | |
 | 1843
...that when at last he saw his error, and wished to retrace his steps, he could not do so. Like Esau, "he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." I wish that every unbeliever who is not yet utterly hardened, could have witnessed his anguish of spirit,... | |
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For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. 
