 | Solomon Simon, Morrison David Bial - 1966 - 224 σελίδες
...I will forgive the entire place for their sake." Abraham answered and said, "Now that I have dared to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes, [4] suppose there are five short of the fifty righteous men; wilt Thou destroy the whole city for lack... | |
 | John White - 1977 - 172 σελίδες
...and the lost, but it is another matter altogether to question God about his own integrity. "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes." Abraham was painfully aware of the incongruity, the total inappropriateness of what he was doing. Yet... | |
 | Johann Arndt - 1979 - 326 σελίδες
...as much as to call God into one's heart" (Confes. I,I,i). The Lord came to Abraham. He said: Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the l.ord. I who am hut dust and ashes (Gen. 18:27). However, when the Lord saw how Abraham humbled himself and lowered... | |
 | John C. Gibson - 1982 - 348 σελίδες
...righteous in the city, I will spare the 27 whole place for their sake." Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and 28 ashes. Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack... | |
 | 2006 - 342 σελίδες
...righteous in the city, I will spare the 27 whole place for their sake." Abraham answered, "Behold, 1 have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and 2x ashes. Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack... | |
 | Elizabeth Rice Achtemeier - 1989 - 192 σελίδες
...knows that human beings should not question God, and he approaches his Lord in all humility: "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes" (v. 27); we could profitably learn that attitude. Yet Abraham, in a boldness approaching that of the... | |
 | Albert Curry Winn - 1990 - 268 σελίδες
...your life? Have you ever experienced a sense of the overi>oweritignexx of God? Abraham said, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes" (Gen. 1 8:27). I lave you ever felt your creatureliness in the presence of God? Isaiah saw the Lord high... | |
 | 1993 - 296 σελίδες
...righteous in the city, I will forgive the whole place for their sake." ^Abraham answered, "Let me take it upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. ^"Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?"... | |
 | Bruce J. Malina - 1993 - 196 σελίδες
...fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake." Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am hut dust and ashes. Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city... | |
 | Lionel Corbett - 1996 - 276 σελίδες
...(but certainly does not become inflated). For instance, Abraham, pleading for the people of Sodom, says: 'I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes (Gen. 18: 27). Otto calls this the 'creature-feeling', overwhelmed by its own insignificance in relation... | |
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Behold I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five? 
