 | Johann Emanuel Veith - 1849
...Where is the frivolous or self-sufficient sophist, who living among sinners, he was translated. He was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1849
...Theatre of Murtulity, — It might have been said of her in the words of the Book of Wisdom, " She pleased God, and was beloved of him, so that, living among sinners, she was translated. For her soul pleased the Lord, therefore hasted he to Uike her away from among... | |
 | Andrew Preston Peabody - 1851 - 367 Seiten
...for unsheltered scenes of moral evil and jeopardy, may it be said, as of the patriarch Enoch, — " He pleased God and was beloved of him, so that, living...translated. Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul." Hard as it is, when the... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1853 - 402 Seiten
...measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age. He pleased God, and was beloved of Him ; so that,...translated. Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. He being made perfect in... | |
 | John Kitto - 1853
...faith he realized the unseen ; he lived in close and constant communion with the Father of spirits. ' He pleased God, and was beloved of Him : so that, living among sinners, he was translated.' Enoch's exemption from death may have been designed as a Cractical refutation of the materialism of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1853
...letters are good, it is of little consequence who wrote them. See Tat. Nos. 7, and 81, and notes. c 'Yen speedily was he taken away, lest -wickedness should...alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. — The Lord hath set him in safety,' <fcc. — Wisdom iv. 11, <£• teq. THE SPECTATOR. [No. 349.... | |
 | John Kitto - 1853
...faith he realized the unseen ; he lived in close and constant communion with the Father of spirits. ' He pleased God, and was beloved of Him : so that, living among sinners, he was translated.' Enoch's exemption from death may have been designed as a practical refutation of the materialism of... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1853 - 282 Seiten
..." from the presence of evil," from the evil to come ? " He was taken away," as the Wise Man says, " lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the... | |
 | 1854 - 669 Seiten
...measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair unto men ; and an unspotted life is old age. [He pleased GOD, and was beloved of Him ; so that...translated. Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.] . UiHtiM iv. «. 9. 10.... | |
 | William Fraser - 1855
...he walked with God." In the book of the Apocrypha, which is called the Wisdom of Solomon, we read, " He pleased God, and was beloved of Him, so that living among sinners he was translated." In the book called Ecclesiasticus we read, " Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, being an example... | |
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He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners he was translated. Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. 
