Lectures, Expository and Practical, on the Book of EstherT. & T. Clark, 1859 - 322 pages |
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... difficulties in the interpretation of it , as because , not very many years ago , there was pub- lished a volume of lectures on this book by the late venerable Dr. M'Crie , which must be known to many of you . There is an ancient fable ...
... difficulties in the interpretation of it , as because , not very many years ago , there was pub- lished a volume of lectures on this book by the late venerable Dr. M'Crie , which must be known to many of you . There is an ancient fable ...
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... difficulties . Thus it fared with the great king in the case before us ! And a similar penalty all have to pay in greater or smaller measure according to the number of those who are dependent on them , and the means they have at their ...
... difficulties . Thus it fared with the great king in the case before us ! And a similar penalty all have to pay in greater or smaller measure according to the number of those who are dependent on them , and the means they have at their ...
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... difficulty . But herein we are as weak as he was , when , self - pleased and self - confident , we suppose that we ourselves can overcome the obstacles which lie across our path . This is one of the snares into which Christians are very ...
... difficulty . But herein we are as weak as he was , when , self - pleased and self - confident , we suppose that we ourselves can overcome the obstacles which lie across our path . This is one of the snares into which Christians are very ...
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... difficulty . Very probably he would be moody and harsh toward them , when he saw to what issue their advice had brought him . But despotism is like spoilt childhood , it must be soothed and flattered ; and in this way the wise men of ...
... difficulty . Very probably he would be moody and harsh toward them , when he saw to what issue their advice had brought him . But despotism is like spoilt childhood , it must be soothed and flattered ; and in this way the wise men of ...
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... difficulty he had to undergo in sup- porting himself in the land of exile , he remembered the injunction of the law , - " Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child ; if thou afflict them in any wise , and they cry unto me , I ...
... difficulty he had to undergo in sup- porting himself in the land of exile , he remembered the injunction of the law , - " Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child ; if thou afflict them in any wise , and they cry unto me , I ...
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Page 78 - And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Page 116 - And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 55 - For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 280 - And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Page 172 - Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
Page 248 - ... for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's 25 damage.
Page 226 - He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Page 322 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 84 - Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Page 82 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.