Bible Dictionary: Oaths: Expressions Used As by the Lord

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2 Samuel 19:7
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants: for I swear by the LORD, if you go not forth, there will not tarry one with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that befell you from your youth until now.
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1 Kings 2:42
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you to swear by the LORD, and protested to you, saying, Know for a certain, on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, that you shall surely die? and you said to me, The word that I have heard is good.
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The Confessional Statement of the United Presbyterian Church of ...
... are not repeated, but in their stead such expressions are used as believers ... Word,
prayer, praise, Sabbath observance, the sacraments, lawful oaths and vows ...
/.../the confessional statement of the.htm

The God of the Law and the Prophets, and the Father of Our Lord ...
... the expression, which ought to be used by those ... which He lays down respecting oaths,
saying that ... of the land of Egypt." Which expressions undoubtedly clearly ...
/.../origen/origen de principiis/chapter iv the god of the.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... holy and honourable as it is, be used as a ... these thine oaths;" but as to other oaths,
he regardeth ... God and of all mankind, cannot confine the expressions of it ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 23 upon our lords.htm

Letter ccxvii. To Amphilochius, the Canons.
... And indeed one cannot but think that the expressions were used merely as a ... the invasion
of the barbarians many men have sworn heathen oaths, tasted things ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter ccxvii to amphilochius the.htm

Letter ccvii. To the Clergy of Neocæsarea.
... Lord, each forming for himself his own expressions of penitence ... 2759] which you now
use were not used in his ... he is the image of God." [2762] Oaths were shunned ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter ccvii to the clergy.htm

Ephesians i. 14-Nov
... we turn to the Gentiles." (Acts 13:46.) These expressions, I say, are used with
this ... that they are the more readily trusted who abstain from taking oaths. ...
/.../homily ii ephesians i 14-nov.htm

Messiah Unpitied, and Without a Comforter
... the strongest of the three words used in the ... Paul was thus deserted, and his expressions
intimate that ... Peter denied Him; he denied with oaths and imprecations ...
/.../newton/messiah vol 1/sermon xxii messiah unpitied and.htm

Robert Nelson, his Friends, and Church Principles.
... John's, Oxford, but was deprived for declining the oaths. ... in which his friend Kettlewell
had used it ... dissents to some particular petitions or expressions in the ...
/.../the english church in the eighteenth century/chapter ii robert nelson his.htm

Faustus is Willing to Admit that Christ May have Said that He came ...
... were in these times appropriate, the expressions, "He has ... for caution, we find him
using oaths in several ... to doubt whether the expression so often used by the ...
/.../faustus is willing to admit.htm

A New Age and New Standards
... ought to be valued about as murder used to be. ... can not get down to the subtler
expressions of lovelessness ... but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: but I ...
/.../rauschenbusch/the social principles of jesus/chapter vi a new age.htm