 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1809 - 412 pages
...the years of many generations. "3. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burncth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1809 - 412 pages
...the 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 a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | Christianity - 1809 - 454 pages
...article conceives himself fully justified in applying to them the language of the prophet Joel : " the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate .TvUflcrness." Hereitisnatural for the thinking Reader to enquire how came the portion of... | |
 | William Newcome - Bible - 1809 - 424 pages
...Even to the years of || many generations, 3 Before them a fire devoured), And behind a flame burneth ; The land is as the garden of Eden before them, .And behind them a * desolate wilderness: Yea, and nothing f shall escape them. || Hebr. of generation and generslior).... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - Egypt - 1810 - 412 pages
...day of clouds and thick darkness, V. 3. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them aflame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness, V. 9. They shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses ; they... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 474 pages
...hath not been ever the like — A tire de" voureth 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 " and the feasts of blood, with their priests out of... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...13, 14. So the prophei: Joel compares the holy land to paradise before the Chaldean army wasted it: " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them," Joel ii. 3. And I have often thought, pardon... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 424 pages
...Northern army of locusts ; allured hither by the scent of prey, because, as the prophet expresses it, The land is as the. garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness*. Thus far human reason, the true interpreter of Scripture, will allow us to infer.... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1814 - 886 pages
...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joel (ii. 30 to a great army; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolaie wildernefs. Having lived near a month in this manner, like a /*oficrof*ox £tpoc*, or ¡word... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...to the 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 a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them in as the appearance... | |
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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. 
