 | Church of Scotland - 1842 - 1004 halaman
...a harsh proposal, but Jacob willingly acceded to it, and we read, that ' the seven years seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." And it is true still, that where our heart is in a work, the most difficult and laborious work, it... | |
 | 1843 - 912 halaman
...better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me. 20 And h : there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife....came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God 21 Tf And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto... | |
 | 1843 - 404 halaman
...we have no farther history of her, except that she was buried in the cave of Machpelah. LOVE. "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her," Genesis. Twice seven years that suitor wrought, To win that maiden's hand, And yet to his impassioned... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 676 halaman
...reasonable to understand the blessing of Shem to be also on his posterity. GENESIS xxix. 20. — " And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Jacob was a type of Christ, in his obtaining his wife by a servitude, and in his servitude's seeming... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 halaman
...wife Rachel. And, in the emphatic language of Scripture, it is said of those years, " they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." And, through all his subsequent history, up to the hour when he placed a pillar on her grave, his love... | |
 | 1845 - 702 halaman
...better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me. 20 And t us fall unto the host 21 U And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife (for my days are fulfilled) that I may go in 22 And... | |
 | Grace Aguilar - 1845 - 400 halaman
...daughter. And Laban said, It is better I give her unto thee than to another man. Abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." We think much of those tales of chivalry where man performs some great and striking deed — conquers... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1845 - 306 halaman
...that ardent passion, which made the tedious probation of seven years service pass so lightly, that "they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Perhaps nothing affords a more incontrovertable proof of the truth of the sacred writings, than the... | |
 | Robert Augustus Gordon - 1845 - 326 halaman
...Jacob kept Laban's flocks, and fed them. " And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her." When the seven years were ended, Jacob asked Laban to give Rachel to him to be his wife, as he had... | |
 | George Bush - 1846 - 466 halaman
...would look back upon the humble and perhaps servile condition of the founders of their families. 20 And Jacob ' served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. i ch. 30. 26. Hon. 12. 12. 20. Theyseemedunlohimbutafewdays, &c. As human nature is constituted, it... | |
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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 
