...service is like that lengthened one which the patriarch paid to Laban for his daughter Rachel, " It seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Love asks not how long the service may last — it rejoices in the thought, that as on this earth it...

...frost withered him by night, it is said, " Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her." The deep interest he felt in the object of his pursuit gave wings to time, and made years fly as days....

...chronologer appears to demand consideration for his main arguments. He insists strongly that the words, " And Jacob " served seven years for Rachel ; and they...him but a few days, for the love he had " to her*," imply that he must have at once possessed the object of his affections, for that hope deferred would...

...avowal may remind the reader of a similar picture of patriarchal simplicity — " And Jacob*served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." — (Gen. xxix. 20.) " The additional satisfaction from the taste of pleasures in the society of one...

...first seven years, and then seven years more — fourteen years in all — for his beloved Rachel. i And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." There were three mighty men, who loved king David very much. They overheard him express a iassing wish...

...years I have laboured among them I can say what is said of the seven years Jacob served for Rachel. 'They seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.' In my ministrations ' I have not shunned to declare unto them the whole counsel of God ;' and with...

...God of Shem, seems especially meant Jesus Christ, who was of his posterity, and eminently his seed. The blessing here pronounced on Japhet, is on his...love wherewith he loved her. That Jacob might enjoy his beloved Rachel, was the joy set before him ; for which he despised the difficulty of his servitude....

...It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to I another man : abide with me. 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 21 1 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her....

...that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. 20 And Jacob k served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the' love he had to her. 21 IT And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I maym go in unto...

...in the history of the Patriarch Jacob, that the seven years which he served for Rachel " seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her." And I knew a Swedish girl who devoted herself for ten years to wait upon her blind and necessitous...