These "elders" were men called to live, in an eminent and most trying degree, not by sight but by faith, by mere reliance upon a promiser.
"Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews"
Handley C.G. Moule
This was he that was surnamed Doson, as if he was a great promiser, and a bad performer.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
It was perfectly apparent that Mr. Wagg proposed to keep his eye on the promiser of the fifty-fifty split.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day