 | William Hurd - Religions - 1799 - 952 pages
...along with the graces, the muses, and virtues. When the Jews kept the feast of the golden calf, they sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play, which means to dance, and undoubtedly they learned this in Egypt. Arnobius, an ancient Christian writer,... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...Egypt's -vani»ies, they will indulge that spirit of trifling which the Apostle ihus describes...." The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." On the contrary, when the christian is directed to the hope of his high calling, he finds it a source... | |
 | Theophilus Browne - 1805 - 274 pages
...things, as they also lusted, »he for- nor like some of them worship an merly did image, as is written, " The people sat down to eat, and to drink, and rose up to dance before the idol." Neither let us commit for. 6. Cation, as some of them commit8 ted, and fell... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 426 pages
...xxxii. 6. And they rose up early on the marrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peaceofferings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.'] It is highly probable that at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians. Herodotus... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 434 pages
...6. And they rose up early on the morroiv, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings ; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to flay.~\ It is highly probable that at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians.... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 430 pages
...LORD. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings ; and' the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to . •play. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down : •for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 522 pages
...first Ep. to the Cor. where he warns us not to be idolaters, as were some of them ; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. This refers us to the occasion of their making a golden calf, and worshipping it with the riotous mirth... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...gratification : that your ideas of a religious festival coincide with those of the idolators of old, who sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play*. Confess that a Sabbath passed in holy exercises, in communion with God, in contemplation of his excellences,... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - Bible - 1811 - 396 pages
...6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings 5 and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down : for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...associated it with many of the amusements of life. The Israelites, when they worshipped their golden calf, sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. But the God of the Christians is a jealous God. Inquiries into hiß charrcter aed attributes are not.... | |
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And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings ; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 
