The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture, Volume 14Funk & Wagnalls, 1891 |
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... light , but by the light of the sun , so we are to see life not by the few sparks which may be emitted by social friction , but by the light of the world that is to come . We are to look at things not seen , " to " endure as seeing the ...
... light , but by the light of the sun , so we are to see life not by the few sparks which may be emitted by social friction , but by the light of the world that is to come . We are to look at things not seen , " to " endure as seeing the ...
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... light excelleth dark- ness " ( ver . 13 ) . Wisdom sees the true dimensions of things . Wisdom knows their value . Folly walks in the darkness , and stumbles step after step . Wisdom has resources of its own : it can live in the past ...
... light excelleth dark- ness " ( ver . 13 ) . Wisdom sees the true dimensions of things . Wisdom knows their value . Folly walks in the darkness , and stumbles step after step . Wisdom has resources of its own : it can live in the past ...
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... light excelleth darkness " ! How far is that ? Can we lay a measuring line on that vast space ? Look at the ... light . This is wisdom as compared with folly . " This is the condemnation , that light is come into the world , and men ...
... light excelleth darkness " ! How far is that ? Can we lay a measuring line on that vast space ? Look at the ... light . This is wisdom as compared with folly . " This is the condemnation , that light is come into the world , and men ...
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... light . There we find the throne of judgment , and every man standing before it , giving an account of himself unto God . What is begun in the Old Testament is completed in the New . " We must all appear before the judgment seat of ...
... light . There we find the throne of judgment , and every man standing before it , giving an account of himself unto God . What is begun in the Old Testament is completed in the New . " We must all appear before the judgment seat of ...
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... light ; the saddest soul knows one flower from which it can extract honey . Even the slave has his broad glad laugh , as if he had thrown away his chain . We know not what angels go to the dungeon , and what sweetness is dropped into ...
... light ; the saddest soul knows one flower from which it can extract honey . Even the slave has his broad glad laugh , as if he had thrown away his chain . We know not what angels go to the dungeon , and what sweetness is dropped into ...
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Page 270 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 397 - In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
Page 84 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 167 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 32 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other ; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 3 - The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Page 93 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 87 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all : yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness. is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 324 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Page 85 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?