John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. A very lofty mountain, rising in lonely grandeur on the horizon to cleave the blue sky with its snowy pinnacles, is descried from afar. We see it a long way off — from where hills and heights, shaggy forests, silent uplands, and busy towns, and all other individual objects that lie between, are lost in distance, and present the appearance of a level plain. So, just so, Adam and Eve descried a child of theirs rising above the common level of mankind, at the long distance of four thousand years. Of the millions who were to spring from them and people the earth of which they were the lonely tenants, this distinguished child was the only one on whom, on whose birth, and life, and death, and works, their weeping eyes and eager hopes, were fixed. Parallel Verses KJV: Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.WEB: Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." |
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