 | Joseph Hall - Theology - 1863 - 630 pages
...undertake this war, and with prudence to manage it. VIII. 2. "What have I now done in comparison of you? In not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer ?"] —What need ye contend for this ? That latter fact, that ye Ephraimites have done, in chasing... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1864 - 398 pages
...grievous words stir up anger." And so he says, " How little have I done now in comparison with you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?" Gideon might have spoken truthfully and answered differently; but God had poured into his heart the... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - Apologetics - 1865 - 510 pages
...sharply ; " and it succeeded. For " he said unto them ' What have I now done in comparison of you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer ? ' . . . Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that." ' But when, a century later,... | |
 | Michael Russell (bp. of Glasgow and Galloway.) - 1865 - 522 pages
...induced them to remain quiet. " And he said unto them, What have I now done in comparison of you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abie/.er. God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb ; and what was I... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn - Religion - 1866 - 1056 pages
...of not having been summoned at first to the conflict : " What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer ?" Ju. viil. 2 ¡ that is, your exploits in following up the victory, and capturing the two princes,... | |
 | A. L. O. E. - English fiction - 1866 - 300 pages
...to turn away wrath. He said unto the indignant warriors, What have I done now in comparison of you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer ? God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb, and Zceb: and what was I able to... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pages
...praise of their valour to have "* And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer ? 8 God hath delivered into your hands the jrinces of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb : and what was I able to... | |
 | Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1867 - 302 pages
...to turn away wrath. He said unto the indignant warriors, What have I done now in comvarison of you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of A biezer 1 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb: and what was I... | |
 | James Austin Bastow - 1868 - 824 pages
...that proverbial expression, which was so admirably adapted to soothe the exasperated Ephraimites, " Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim, better than the vintage of Abiezer ?" (Jndg. viii. 2 ¡) a metaphorical mode of commending the smallest action of one, as superior to... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1868 - 80 pages
...or that there was £ no very great difference at that time between the two languages. Chap. viii. 2. "Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer ?" This is a dexterous compliment, signifying that the smallest achievements of Ephraim were better... | |
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And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer? 
