| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...years of many generalions. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth : the land 1 Ihem. 4 The appearance of them is as the ippearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run.... | |
| Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 488 pages
...inhabitants trembling — a fire devouring before the enemy, and behind them a flame burning — the land, as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness — all hands fainting, and every man's heart melting : pangs taking hold of them as a woman that travaileth... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...f 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...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 lake... | |
| Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 pages
...march every one in his ways, they do not break their ranks; neither does one thrust another. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness,' Joel ii. 3, 7, 8. And certainly no plague of locusts can be so destructive as one that issues from... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...HI. El. x. 55, &c. DUNSTER. Ver. 78. who leave behind Nothing but ruin] Thus, Joel, ii. 3. "The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." And Gray, in his Bard, has a similar description finely expressed, where he speaks of the conquests... | |
| Temple Chevallier - Astronomy in the Bible - 1827 - 454 pages
...clouds and of thick darkness. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: The land is as the garden of Eden before them; and behind them...desolate wilderness. Yea, and nothing shall escape them ... Before their face the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness. They shall... | |
| Christian literature - 1827 - 468 pages
...irresistible, never took the field. " A fire devoured before them, and behind a flame burned. The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing escaped them." Prodigies of valour could avail nothing in the face of an enemy, whose losses in leaders... | |
| William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 pages
...Scripture. JOEL, ii. 3—10. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame bnrneth : the land i« as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wildernett: yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is aa the appearance of horses... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 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 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... | |
| Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...great people and a strong : a fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth ; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them...desolate wilderness, yea, and nothing shall escape them." Locusts consume like a general conflagration ; 'wherever they feed, their leavings seem as it were... | |
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