Octavius’s mother, Mary Forbes (1774–1854) had Scottish roots but was born and raised in Bermuda and was the only child of Dr. and Mrs George Forbes. On 6 September 1791, when she was just 17, she married Army Lieutenant Thomas Winslow of the 47th Regiment. Shortly after this, she came under spiritual convictions and was brought to gospel deliverance while pleading the promise, “Ask, and ye shall receive”.[citation needed]
Mary and Thomas Winslow went on to live in England and Octavius was born in Pentonville, a village near London, on 1 August 1808. He was the eighth of 13 children. Those children recorded in the family bible of Robert Winslow, brother of Octavius, are:
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“It is one thing to talk of death: it is quite another thing, when it becomes a reality, to grapple with it.”
Chitwood Arlen-By Faith
Commentary on Hebrews 11
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
FAITH TO A SAVING OF THE SOUL (Ch. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND (Ch. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section I
ABEL — (Chs. III, IV)
A MORE EXCELLENT SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
THE BLOOD OF ABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
ENOCH — (Chs. V, VI)
TRANSLATED INTO HEAVEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
THE BIBLICAL STRUCTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
NOAH — (Chs. VII, VIII)
THROUGH THE FLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
BEYOND THE FLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
ABRAHAM — (Chs. IX, X, XI)
FROM UR TO CANAAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
ON THE MOUNTAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Section II
ABRAHAM — (Ch. XII)
THE OFFERING OF ISAAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
ISAAC — (Ch. XIII)
THE RIGHTS OF PRIMOGENITURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
JACOB — (Ch. XIV)
HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY BLESSINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
JOSEPH — (Ch. XV)
THE RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
MOSES — (Chs. XVI, XVII)
THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
DESTRUCTION OF GENTILE WORLD POWER . . . . . . . . . 283
RAHAB — (Ch. XVIII)
THE SALVATION OF GENTILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
GIDEON, BARAK, SAMSON, et al. (Ch. XIX)
A GOOD REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
APPENDIXES —
ADOPTION, REDEMPTION OF THE BODY . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
THE WILFUL SIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
SCRIPTURE INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .