Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old TruthsTrübner & Company, 1881 - 280 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acts affliction Ahab angels Arab Arab.-The armour of God Babylon Badaga beasts beautiful believers Bengal birds blood body called China Christ Church clouds compared dark David dead death Deut devil differs from earthly earth Egypt emblem evil faith father fire five points flesh flowers fool fountain four points fruit God's gold grace hand head heart heaven heavenly hence Holy Spirit Jacob Jerusalem Jews John John 15 Kings leprosy light lion living look Luke 15 Malay morning Moses Nebuchadnezzar night nine points parable passions Paul Persian Persian.-A Pharaoh Prov proverb rain rich righteous river Sanskrit Sanskrit.-A Satan seal seed serpent servant seven points shine sinner six points Solomon's temple soul stone storms Talmud Tamul Telugu things thorns tongue tree Turk.-The vessel wicked wilderness wind wings word worm
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 235 - I have no need of thee : nor, again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Seite 102 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Seite 153 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
Seite 88 - For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
Seite 10 - Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Seite 17 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but My salvation shall be for ever, and My righteousness shall not be abolished.
Seite 121 - Ancient, eternal, and unchanged, it dies not with the dying frame. Who knows it incorruptible, and everlasting, and unborn, What heeds he whether he may slay, or fall himself in battle slain ? As their old garments men cast off, anon new raiment to assume, So casts the soul its worn-out frame, and takes at once another form. The weapon cannot pierce it through, nor wastes it the consuming fire ; The liquid waters melt it not, nor dries it up the parching wind ; Impenetrable and unburned ; impermeable...
Seite 207 - And he said, Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot ; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.
Seite 3 - They never venture to fire upon a young bear, when the mother is near : for, if the cub drop, she becomes enraged to a degree little short of madness ; and if she get sight of the enemy, will only quit her revenge with her life.
Seite viii - Any one, who by after investigation has sought to discover how much our rustic hearers carry away, even from the sermons to which they have attentively listened, will find that it is hardly ever the course and tenor of the argument, supposing the discourse to have contained such ; but if anything...