Bible Heathens; Or Church and World in Scripture TimesJames Nisbet, 1885 - 296 من الصفحات |
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 171 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
الصفحة 23 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD.
الصفحة 63 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
الصفحة 23 - hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?" — he " laughs at the shaking of the spear ! " Such living likenesses were never since drawn. Sublime sorrow, sublime reconciliation ; oldest choral melody as of the heart of mankind; — so soft, and great; as the summer midnight, as the world with its seas and .stars! There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.
الصفحة 232 - As they offered gifts most rare At that manger rude and bare; So may we with holy joy, Pure and free from sin's alloy, All our costliest treasures bring, Christ ! to thee our heavenly king.
الصفحة 98 - And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done ? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
الصفحة 204 - O'er that high festival. A thousand cups of gold, In Judah deem'd divine — Jehovah's vessels hold The godless heathen's wine. In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand : The fingers of a man ; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand.
الصفحة 204 - Chaldea's seers are good, but here they have no skill, And the unknown letters stood untold and awful still. And Babel's men of age are wise and deep in lore, But now they were not sage ; they saw, but knew no more.
الصفحة 232 - AS with gladness men of old •£*• Did the guiding star behold ; As- with joy they hailed its light, Leading onward, beaming bright ; So, most gracious LORD, may we Evermore be led to Thee.
الصفحة 118 - And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones : and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.