 | John Crawford - 1875 - 304 Seiten
...answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the Word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts." The meaning and intention of this passage is made doubly clear from the illustration which accompanies... | |
 | Solomon Simon, Morrison David Bial - 1966 - 224 Seiten
...not depend on its numbers. This is reflected in the words of the prophet Zechariah, "Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, says the Lord of hosts" (4:6). with manna which was strange to you, so that you might know that man does not live by bread... | |
 | David A. Altshuler - 1978 - 212 Seiten
...struggle for freedom against the pagans. The Hanukkah Haftarah took on new meaning: "Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, says the Lord of hosts." ISSUES AND Kiddush Hashem or Suicide? To imagine that the Jews walked VALUES willingly to their deaths... | |
 | Henry Clarence Thiessen - 1979 - 496 Seiten
...secret to victory. This was true in Old Testament times as well, for Zech. 4:6 reads, " 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit/ says the Lord of hosts." It is the Spirit who produces in us the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22f.; cf. Eph. 5:9; Phil. 1:11).... | |
 | Peter C. Craigie - 1985 - 270 Seiten
...said, "No, my lord." 6 Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. 'What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forward... | |
 | Rowan A. Greer - 1986 - 224 Seiten
...riders. (Hag. 2:20-22) This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might [ie, of the nations!], nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. (Zech. 4:6-7) Whether,... | |
 | Clive Barrett - 1987 - 148 Seiten
...presented as religious obedience, not pragmatic calculation. So Zechanah declared ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts' (Zech. 4.6). It is notable that the feast of Hannukah celebrates the Maccabean deliverance, but that... | |
 | Elizabeth Rice Achtemeier - 1989 - 192 Seiten
...magnificent songs of faith ever sung in the midst of adversity From Zechariah 4:1-14 "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts": one of the most frequently preached texts of the past generation, but now largely ignored by the pulpit... | |
 | Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard - 1990 - 1108 Seiten
...came to serve also the idea of God's revelatory and redemptive activity, as implied in "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts" (Zech 4:6). The more comprehensive work of the Spirit is seen in Isa 11:2-3, "And the Spirit of the... | |
 | Richard Bauckham - 1993 - 196 Seiten
...word of the Lord which he would have understood as the central message of the vision: 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts' (Zech. 4:6). The question to which the message of Revelation is the answer was: given the apparently... | |
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Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts 
