 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.  Putnam's Monthly - Seite 2801855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Hartley - 1831 - 426 Seiten
...chastisements which can befal guilty nations ; and up to this hour the visitation is experienced. The land was as the garden of Eden before them ; and behind them a desolate wilderness : (Joel ii. 3.) Recent events might almost intimate, that the language also is applicable... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 Seiten
...to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 446 Seiten
...So justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel to a great army; who further observes, that ' the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.' " Having lived near a month in this manner, like a sword with ten thousand edges, to which... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 Seiten
...him. Ezek. xxxi. 8, 9. A fire devoureth before them, (the. " locusts") and behind them a name burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them : and behind them a desolate wilderness. Joel ii. 3. Kattward, &c.] So he (God) drove out the man : and he placed at the east of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 Seiten
...the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots,... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - 1832 - 390 Seiten
...destroy Jerusalem is thus described : "Afire devoureth before them, and behind "them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before - them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." Jesus saw a pcculiar fitness therefore in choosing... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 Seiten
...the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots,... | |
 | 1832 - 548 Seiten
...where the insect has accordingly a proverbial reputation. " The land," says the Prophet Joel, •' is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness — yea, and nothing shall escape them." Again— " they shall run like mighty men ; they... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 436 Seiten
...exertion, traversed the country, and mowed down, in their march, the staff of life. " The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." Had they continued their devastations, we could have expected little but "cleanness of... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 420 Seiten
...writings, is that in Joel ii. 3 — 10. 'A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, nothing shall escape them, &c. This is, perhaps, one of the most striking and animated... | |
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