The ExpositorSamuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt Hodder and Stoughton, 1883 |
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... human destinies , and yet a seer familiar with the ecstasies of the prophetic trance , to whom the inspiration of the Almighty gave understanding of things to be . " Yet a thousand years after his time Micah affirms not only that the ...
... human destinies , and yet a seer familiar with the ecstasies of the prophetic trance , to whom the inspiration of the Almighty gave understanding of things to be . " Yet a thousand years after his time Micah affirms not only that the ...
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... human affairs . And if by the study of these ominous phenomena the diviner could foresee things to come , why might he not also advise courses of action by which the blows of adverse change might be evaded , and those who consulted him ...
... human affairs . And if by the study of these ominous phenomena the diviner could foresee things to come , why might he not also advise courses of action by which the blows of adverse change might be evaded , and those who consulted him ...
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... humanity . We have found similar combina- tions of contradictory qualities in seers of whom we have a right to expect more than from him - in Jacob , in Saul , in Solomon , in Jonah , who succumbed to the selfsame tempta- tions before ...
... humanity . We have found similar combina- tions of contradictory qualities in seers of whom we have a right to expect more than from him - in Jacob , in Saul , in Solomon , in Jonah , who succumbed to the selfsame tempta- tions before ...
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... human to err ? Are not even the best men still human ? And if great men err , will they not err greatly , and shew the same force of character when they do evil that they bring to the doing of that which is good ? If , then , God elects ...
... human to err ? Are not even the best men still human ? And if great men err , will they not err greatly , and shew the same force of character when they do evil that they bring to the doing of that which is good ? If , then , God elects ...
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... human sym- pathies which were comparatively destroyed when the Book was treated as a dead sea of enigmas and abstractions- these blessed results have sprung in no small measure from the conviction that in all Scripture narratives the ...
... human sym- pathies which were comparatively destroyed when the Book was treated as a dead sea of enigmas and abstractions- these blessed results have sprung in no small measure from the conviction that in all Scripture narratives the ...
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Page 174 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 41 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 226 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held ; and they cried with a loud voice, saying ; How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 190 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 125 - Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Page 238 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Page 385 - Call his name Lo-ammi : for ye are not My people, and I will not be your God.
Page 222 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 97 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 218 - And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof : for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.