 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit...  The Quarterly Review - Page 529redigeeritud poolt - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1836 - 396 lehte
...in so great a degree, therefore it is said in Amos, " The day of Jehovah is darkness and not light, as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him," v. 18, 19. We read in the second book of Kings, That- Elisha was mocked of little children, and that... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 624 lehte
...comfort: they shall find it is not a day for mirth or pleasure, but for heaviness and sorrow. V. 19. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him;...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. It shall be with you, as with a man, who, flying from a lion, meets in his way with a bear; and, to... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 630 lehte
...comfort : they shall find it is not a day for mirth or pleasure, but for heaviness and sorrow. V. 19. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. It shall be with you, as with a man, who, flying from a Ii-.nt. meets in his way with a bear ; and,... | |
 | 1837 - 312 lehte
...denounced against them hy the prophet, Amos v. 19 : they are as a man who did flee from a {ion, and a hear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent hit him. They are inspired hoth with false and true hopes, and groaning under oppression. These are... | |
 | 1837 - 594 lehte
...fuliilment of the prophecy denounced against them by the prophet, Amos T. 19: they are at a man who did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the haute and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. They are inspired both with false and... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 lehte
...(lix. 1 1), and the Prophet Amos thus describes a man who shunning one danger falls into another: " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him," Amos v 19. It is figuratively said that in the future times of peace " the cow and the bear shall feed,"... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1838 - 104 lehte
...the day of the Lord ! to what end ' is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and ' not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a * bear met...leaned ' his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall ' not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light ? ' even very dark, and no brightness in... | |
 | 1838 - 844 lehte
...so small, that they dreaded as much to meet the one, as the other. Hence we find in (Amos v. 19,) " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him." The beast of Rev. xiii. 2, resembled a leopard, but it had the feet of a bear, and the mouth of a lion.... | |
 | John Elliot Palmer - 1838 - 252 lehte
...ii. 25. 3 ditto. 4 ii. 4—9. 5 ii. 10, 11. 6 ii- 25. 7 Amos v. 1, 4. bear met him ; or went into a house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light ? even very dark, and no brightness in it?'8... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1840 - 632 lehte
...the system referred to above, but let us beware that in shunning one evil we do not approach a worse, as " if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the bouse and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him"— it has always appeared to me that... | |
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