"Seven-fold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he sends you the blinding darkness, And the furnace of seven-fold heat. 'Tis the only way, believe me, To keep you close to his feet, For 'tis always so easy to wander When our ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... in Christ: in Christ's heart, loved with an everlasting love, the beloved name engraven on its secret tables; in Christ's book, enrolled on those pages which are sealed so fast that He alone can break the seven-fold seal; in Christ's hand, which holds the ocean as a drop upon its palm, and which was pierced on Calvary, from which no power shall ever pluck the trembling soul; in Christ's grace, rooted as a tree in luxuriant ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... concerning the rod out of the stem of Jesse: "And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him; the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord" (Isa. 11: 2). "The promise of the seven-fold Spirit," the Jewish commentators call it. Certainly it was literally fulfilled upon the Son of God at the Jordan, when God gave him the Spirit without measure. For he who was now baptized was in turn to be baptizer. "Upon whom thou shalt ...
— The Ministry of the Spirit • A. J. Gordon |
