 | William Chambers - Literature - 1837 - 352 pages
...countries. " A fire devoureth before them," says the prophet Joel, " 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 escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...there hath not been ever the like — A fire devoureth 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 escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 624 pages
...be in succeeding generations. II. 3. Afire devour eth 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 escape them. II. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification (Christian theology) - 1837 - 730 pages
...as a single stalk in the furrows. " A fire devourcth before them, and behind them a flame hurneth ; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing can escape them," Joelii. 3. Now, let the dreadful artillery... | |
 | Natural theology - 1837 - 680 pages
...also mark their progress by devastation and ruin; to use the graphic language of the prophet — " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness "3 This plague has generally been considered as belonging to the old world, in... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey - 1837 - 440 pages
...the cities of the Medee< an innumerable multitude, and they shall come with the children of Moses. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a flame imrneth." Joel, 2 : 3. And at that time, when the tribes shall go forth, the glorious clouds... | |
 | John Elliot Palmer - Universalism - 1838 - 252 pages
...even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth ; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wildernes : yea, and nothing shall escape them.'1 This prophecy is supposed to have been writ-,... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1902 - 378 pages
...results where all vegetation is concerned. Only too true are the words of the prophet in Scripture, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." In fact, when the swarm has taken its flight elsewhere, the country appears as... | |
 | Geography - 1915 - 876 pages
...leaves of the woody cypress and of the olive trees, the latter about i ,000 years old. were threatened. "The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them" (Joel 2: 3). But now, after passing up this... | |
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A fire devoureth 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 escape them. 
