Bible Encyclopedia: The First Born: The Beginning of Strength and Excellency of Power

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On Genesis.
... Reuben, my first-born, and beginning of my [1144] pain ... made by God in behalf of His
first-born people from ... First he mentions the event,"that in the last days ...
/.../hippolytus/the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/on genesis.htm

Of the Cross, and Other Tortures of Jesus, and of the Figure of ...
... Most High Father arranged from the beginning, and how ... of immortal power; but this
strength prefigured that ... And thus, when the first-born of the Egyptians had ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xxvi of the cross and.htm

The Priesthood of Christ
... shoulders to the wheel, Weigh well their strength, and all ... is to the present time
without beginning of days ... of his body the Church, the first-born among many ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/oration iv the priesthood of.htm

On the Formation of the Character of Believers, and on Giving of ...
... unchangeable, whose knowledge is without beginning, whose truth ... is without end, whose
strength is irresistible ... Cause of the resurrection, the First-born of the ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec ii on the formation of.htm

South -- the Image of God in Man
... the world to have had no beginning, but to ... but idolatry: and idolatry certainly is
the first-born of folly ... A strange thing that the fire must first consume this ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons vol 2/south the image of.htm

The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. (Gen. Xlix. 8-10. )
... served to manifest clearly that the lion's strength and the ... and that, for this reason,
the beginning of the ... points to Genesis 49.As the first-born, he ought to ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the blessing of jacob upon.htm

The First Sermon in the Tabernacle
... Remove the Word who was in the beginning with God ... us one, the head of the family,
first-born among many ... other except what I have stated, the first time they ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/the first sermon in the.htm

Chapter xlix
... This latter expression, "beginning of might," is on several ... may make the assertion
that manly strength best displays ... a certain one be the first-born among the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xlix.htm

Canticles 4:12 the Lord's Garden.
... (3) The Lord's flowers are all at their beginning weak. They do not come to full
maturity at once. They are at first like new-born babes, tender and ...
/.../chapter xv canticles 4 12 the.htm

Christ Bringing a Sword.
... thus that things have gone on from the beginning until now. ... rejoice also in this,
that He so came, born of a ... but needed still to be fed with the first milk of ...
/.../selected sermons of schleiermacher/xvii christ bringing a sword.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Genesis 49:3
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Deuteronomy 21:17
But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Torrey's Topical Textbook