| William Whiston - 1706 - 406 lehte
...ytars of generation and generation. Л fire devourcth before them, and behind them a flamt bumeth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them л defolattWtidernejs, yea, a»d nothingßjall efcape them. The appearance ef them is as the appearance... | |
| James Hervey - 1755 - 486 lehte
...Scarce a (ingle Leaf remains on the Boughs, or fo much as a fmgle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burneth : the...Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildernefe : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from all its... | |
| Thomas Shaw - 1757 - 590 lehte
...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joel, ii. 3. to a great army ; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate nvildernefs. Having lived near a month in this manner, (like a ftopofopev £t<po; ', orjword with ten... | |
| William Warburton - 1765 - 482 lehte
...mountains : a great people and a ftrong, " there hath not been ever the like — A fire de" voureth before them, and behind them a flame "• burneth...the garden of .Eden " before them, and behind them a deiblate wil'* dernefs, yea, and nothing fhall efcape them. ** The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| Noël Antoine Pluche - 1766 - 392 lehte
...Scripture declares with relation to a victorious People, whom God in his Wrath caufed to march forth : * The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejolate Wildertufs. The Country was a verdant Paradife before their Approach, but was rendered a dreary... | |
| James Hervey - 1767 - 566 lehte
...much as a fingle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burnetb : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate IFildernefs : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from all its... | |
| Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 lehte
...fcura) : he " hath made it clean bare, and caft it away • •" the branches thereof are made white. The •* land is as the garden of Eden before them, * and behind them a defokte wildernefs; yca^ •* and nothing mall efcape them. The appear" ance of them is as horfes,... | |
| Joseph Eyre - 1771 - 194 lehte
...neither ftiall be any more after it, even to the years of generation and generation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, anil behind them a defolate wildernefe, yea, and nothing Jhall efcape them. The appearance of them... | |
| Joseph Townsend - 1781 - 342 lehte
...be known by the face of the country. We may fay of defpo'ts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dcfolate wildernefs * ". •' •Joelii. 3. CHAP. IX. ON POPULATION. 5 I.TH HE ftrength and profperity... | |
| Louis de Marolles - 1790 - 224 lehte
...banks to refift the flood, and, as far as it reaches, there is nothing but defclation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden tf Eden bifers them -, and behind them a defolate vjilderncfs: yea, and nothing jhall efcape them.... | |
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