Eastern Proverbs and Emblems: Illustrating Old TruthsHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1881 - 280 Seiten |
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... four points : - Clouds without water may be of some use in giving shade , but they do not fertilize the land , which full clouds , called the bottles of Heaven , Job 38. 37 , do ; they are empty , and easily carried away , as is seen in ...
... four points : - Clouds without water may be of some use in giving shade , but they do not fertilize the land , which full clouds , called the bottles of Heaven , Job 38. 37 , do ; they are empty , and easily carried away , as is seen in ...
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... four points : - - 1. Harmless in the midst of a crooked generation , Phil . 2. 15 ; yet he is to be wise as a serpent , Matt . IO . 16 . 2. Hates impure things , not like the crow or 30 EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS Meek as a Dove.
... four points : - - 1. Harmless in the midst of a crooked generation , Phil . 2. 15 ; yet he is to be wise as a serpent , Matt . IO . 16 . 2. Hates impure things , not like the crow or 30 EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS Meek as a Dove.
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... four things God cannot do : He cannot lie ; He cannot die ; He cannot deny Himself ; and He cannot look favourably on sin . The Heart the Fountain of Action . — MAT . 15. 19 . Sanskrit . — If the heart be impure , all actions will be ...
... four things God cannot do : He cannot lie ; He cannot die ; He cannot deny Himself ; and He cannot look favourably on sin . The Heart the Fountain of Action . — MAT . 15. 19 . Sanskrit . — If the heart be impure , all actions will be ...
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... four points : — 1. Feed among sheep ; but the Great Shepherd will separate them at the judgment - day ; so hypocrites in a church as tares among wheat . 2. Mischievous ; destroy trees , plants ; hence bad princes so called , Zech . 10 ...
... four points : — 1. Feed among sheep ; but the Great Shepherd will separate them at the judgment - day ; so hypocrites in a church as tares among wheat . 2. Mischievous ; destroy trees , plants ; hence bad princes so called , Zech . 10 ...
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... four points : - The change comes on gradually ; we scarcely perceive a difference day by day , but after the interval of a week it is distinctly seen ; the leaf changes from a green to a pale hue when about to fall , the breeze snaps ...
... four points : - The change comes on gradually ; we scarcely perceive a difference day by day , but after the interval of a week it is distinctly seen ; the leaf changes from a green to a pale hue when about to fall , the breeze snaps ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acts affliction Afghan Ahab angels Arab Arab.-A Arab.-The Babylon bad company Badaga beasts beautiful become believers Bengal body called China Christ Church clouds compared crow danger dark David dead death destroyed Deut devil earth earthly Egypt elephant emblem enemy evil faith father fire five points flesh fool fountain four points fruit garment God's gold grace hand head heart heaven hence Herod Holy Spirit Jacob Jerusalem Jews John Kings light lion living Luke Malay man's Nebuchadnezzar night parable passion Paul Persian Persian.-The Pharaoh Prov proverb rain rich righteous river Russian.-A salt Sanskrit Sanskrit.-A Satan Saul says seed serpent servant sheep shine sinner Solomon's temple soul stone Talmud Tamul.-A Tamul.-The Telugu Telugu.-A things thorns tongue tree Turk.-The Urdu Veman vessel wicked wilderness wind wings words 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 253 - the hour is coming in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice and come forth ; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.
Seite 36 - For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe, the horse was lost, For want of a horse, the rider was lost, For want of a rider, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
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 121 - Ancient, eternal, and unchang'd, 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 unburn'd ; impermeable...
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 - FOB 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 turrieth 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 265 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
Seite 69 - Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.