| Henry Blunt - Sermons, English - 1844 - 274 pages
...of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you ; give me a possession of a burying-place with you that I may bury my dead out of my sight." He was unwilling to sorrow as one without hope, and therefore, having indulged his grief, as a Christian... | |
| Henry Blunt - Bible - 1844 - 368 pages
...Heth, saying, 4. / am a stranger and a sojourner with you : give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. The longest and the happiest life on earth must still have the same conclusion as the shortest and... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...sojourner with you," said Abraham to the children of Heth, after the death of Sarah ; "give me a possession of a Burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight," {Gen. xxiii. 4.) and his consequent purchase of the cave of Macphelah established a like custom among his posterity.... | |
| Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 pages
...children of Heth, " I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight;" and remember who they were who were laid to their last repose in the cave of Machpelah, we may, I think,... | |
| John Leland - 1845 - 760 pages
...of courage and conduct on, and said to the sons of Heth: "give me a possession of a bury ing-place - with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." Fancy conjectures that, when Abraham lay mourning and weeping for his loss, after a severe contest,... | |
| 1845 - 702 pages
...Heth, saying, 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you : give me a possession of a burying-place 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Ь Hear us, my lord ; thou art a mighty... | |
| Thomas Wilson - Christians - 1846 - 498 pages
...and spake to the sons of Heth, saying, "I am a stranger and sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." What an exquisite oriental picture is the whole scene between the patriarchal " mighty prince " and... | |
| George Bush - Bible - 1846 - 466 pages
...possession « ch. 17. 8. 1 Chron. 89. 15. P«. 105. 12. Heb. 11. 9, 13. << Acts 7. 5. of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 3. Abraham stood up from before h:s dead.... | |
| John Todd - Christian life - 1847 - 114 pages
...Genesis 23 : 4, — "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you : give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." 8* The preacher felt that a few more days or hours, and the language of Abraham might be his own; and... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 386 pages
...of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord : Thou art a mighty prince... | |
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