The First Born: The Beginning of Strength and Excellency of Power
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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:
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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.
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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

Resources
What was the first / original church? Is the original / first church the true church? | GotQuestions.org

Why did Paul say the gospel brings salvation to the Jew first and then the Gentile? | GotQuestions.org

Who was the first Jew? | GotQuestions.org

First: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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First and Second Books Of Chronicles

First and Second Books Of Kings

First Epistle Of Peter

First Epistle To The Corinthians

First Epistle To The Thessalonians

First Fruits: As a Heave offering

First Fruits: Belonged to the Priests

First Fruits: Figurative

First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering

First Fruits: Freewill offerings of, Given to the Prophets

First Fruits: Offerings of, Must be Free from Blemish

First Fruits: Presented at the Tabernacle

First Fruits: To be offered As a Thank-Offering Upon Entrance Into the Land of Promise

First Fruits: Wave offering of

First Heaven

First Lady of the Church

First Love

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Antiquity of offering

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Could not be a Free-Will offering

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Flesh of, the Priest's Portion

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Law of Redemption For

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Not Shorn

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Not Taken from the Dam for Seven Days

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Not to Labour

The First Born of Clean Beasts: Offered in Sacrifice

The First Born of Clean Beasts: To be Redeemed

The First Born of Israel: Price of Redemption For

The First Born of Israel: Price of, Given to the Priests

The First Born of Israel: To be Redeemed

The First Born of Israel: Tribe of Levi Taken For

The First Born of Man and Beast Dedicated to God

The First Born of the Donkey to be Redeemed With Lamb or Its Neck Broken

The First Born: Dedicated to Commemorate the Sparing of the First Born of

The First Born: Laws Respecting, Observed at Christ's Birth

The First Born: Laws Respecting, Restored After the Captivity

The First Born: Objects of Special Love

The First Born: Precious and Valuable

The First Born: Privileges of a Double Portion of Inheritance

The First Born: Privileges of Authority Over the Younger Children

The First Born: Privileges of Could be Forfeited by Misconduct

The First Born: Privileges of Could be Sold

The First Born: Privileges of in Case of Death the Next Brother to Raise up Seed To

The First Born: Privileges of not to be Alienated by Parents Through Caprice

The First Born: Privileges of Precedence in the Family

The First Born: Privileges of Special Blessing by the Father

The First Born: Privileges of The Father's Title and Power

The First Born: Superseded: Aaron

The First Born: Superseded: Adonijah

The First Born: Superseded: Cain

The First Born: Superseded: David's Brothers

The First Born: Superseded: Esau

The First Born: Superseded: Ishmael

The First Born: Superseded: Japheth

The First Born: Superseded: Manasseh

The First Born: Superseded: Reuben

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

The First Born: The Dignity of Christ

The First Born: The Dignity of the Church

The First Fruits: Allotted to the Priests

The First Fruits: Church of Christ

The First Fruits: Different Kinds of all Agricultural Produce

The First Fruits: Different Kinds of Barley Harvest

The First Fruits: Different Kinds of Fruit of New Trees in Fourth Year

The First Fruits: Different Kinds of Honey

The First Fruits: Different Kinds of Wheat Harvest

The First Fruits: Different Kinds of Wine and Oil

The First Fruits: Different Kinds of Wool

The First Fruits: First Converts in Any Place

The First Fruits: God Honored by the offering of

The First Fruits: Holy to the Lord

The First Fruits: Law of, Restored After the Captivity

The First Fruits: Offering of, Consecrated the Whole

The First Fruits: Resurrection of Christ

The First Fruits: The Jewish Church

The First Fruits: To be Brought to God's House

The First Fruits: To be offered in a Basket

The First Fruits: To be offered with Thanksgiving

The First Fruits: To be offered without Delay

The First Fruits: To be the Very Best of Their Kind

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