 | World history - 1747 - 544 pages
...prefence, becaufe they dwelt far of, they took the counterfeit of his vifage from far, and made an exprefs image of a king, -whom they honoured, to the end that by their forwardnefs they might flatter him that was abfent, as if he was prefent. This was moft certainly... | |
 | William Guthrie, John Gray - World history - 1764 - 590 pages
...prefence, becavfe they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his vijage from far, and made an exprefs image of a king, whom they honoured, to the end that by their forwardnefs they might flatter him that was abfent as if he was prcfent. Two other reafons are... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...prefence, becaufe they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his vifage from far, and made an exprefs image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardnefs they might flatter him that was abfent, as if he were prefent. 18 Alfo the fingular diligence... | |
 | William Heckford - 1791 - 502 pages
...becaufe they dwelt far off, the.y before took the counterfeit of his vifage from far, and made an exprefs image of a king, whom they honoured to the end, that by their forwardnefs, they might flatter him that was abfent as if he wasprefent. This was moft certainly... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...the Gentiles counterfeited ADONAI by Adonis and Apollo) from fur, and made an express image of a kinc whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness, they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.' — And this was an occasion to deceive the world:... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...by the commandments of kings. 15 Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far,...the end that, by this their forwardness, they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present. 16 Also the singular diligence of the artificer... | |
 | 1840 - 506 pages
...presence, because they dwelt far ofij they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made aa express image of a king, whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present" (xiv. 15, 17). Among the Greeks this theory was... | |
 | Theophilus Evans - Church history - 1834 - 318 pages
...of Solomon, (Apocrypha,) xiv. 17- "Whom men could not honor in presence because they dwelt far oft', they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honored." Nimrod reigued about one hundred and fifty years after the deluge. Th.6 imaginations of men... | |
 | 1840 - 512 pages
...under him ceremonies and sacrifices.—Whom man could not know in presence, because limy dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far,...the end that by this their forwardness they might Hatter him that was absent, as if he were present" (xiv. 15, 17). This method of interpreting the antient... | |
 | Egypt - 1841 - 214 pages
...worshipped by the commandments of kings. Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far,...the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present," Wisd. xiv. 14. 16, 17. This was certainly the... | |
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Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent... 
