| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...generations. II. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a jtame burneth : the land is a* the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them, In the forepart of their troops, they devour all before them, like a fire ; and, behind them, all looks... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1809 - 412 pages
...years of many generations. "3. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burncth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5. Like... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1809 - 412 pages
...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...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5. Like... | |
| William Newcome - Bible - 1809 - 418 pages
...years of || many generations. » 3 Before them a fire devoured), And behind a flame burnetb : The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them a * desolate wilderness: Yea, and nothing f shall escape them. |j Hcbr. ot generation and generjlion. * a wilderness of desolation, f escape... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1809 - 544 pages
...they been compared by the prophet Joel (ii. 3.) to a great army ; who farther 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 /uvturtfut %I$K, or siuord "with ten thousand edges,... | |
| Christianity - 1809 - 454 pages
...conceives himself fully justified in applying to them the language of the prophet Joel : " the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate .TvUflcrness." Hereitisnatural for the thinking Reader to enquire how came the portion of English Nonconformists,... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Egypt - 1810 - 408 pages
...clouds and thick darkV; 3. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burnt lh: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness,—' — V. o/. -They shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses j they shall enter into... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...the prophei: Joel compares the holy land to paradise before the Chaldean army wasted it: " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them...desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them," Joel ii. 3. And I have often thought, pardon my digression, that, after our first parents were expelled... | |
| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 476 pages
...been ever the like — A fire de" voureth 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 " and the feasts of blood, with their priests out of the midst of their " idolatrous crew, and the... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 474 pages
...been ever the like — A tire de" voureth 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 " and the feasts of blood, with their priests out of the midst of their " idolatrous crew, and the... | |
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