The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture, Volume 14Funk & Wagnalls, 1891 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page 2
... passes away instantly . This is the king's judgment ! Already he begins to show that he is a man . He built his palace , but its foundations were laid in the fickle wind , and the palace itself was but a tinted dream ! It is something ...
... passes away instantly . This is the king's judgment ! Already he begins to show that he is a man . He built his palace , but its foundations were laid in the fickle wind , and the palace itself was but a tinted dream ! It is something ...
Page 4
... passing on as shadows pass , until death is greater than life upon the earth . The dead man's house is always ready , and yet the earth looks as if it had never opened to receive one of its sons . It swallows up a city , and no mound ...
... passing on as shadows pass , until death is greater than life upon the earth . The dead man's house is always ready , and yet the earth looks as if it had never opened to receive one of its sons . It swallows up a city , and no mound ...
Page 9
... pass over its surface make its dreariness only drearier . " Vanity of vanities , " saith the Convener ; - " Place of service and dawn of heaven , " saith the Christian . Chapter ii . THE VANITY OF PLEASURE . BY reading Eccles . i . 15 ...
... pass over its surface make its dreariness only drearier . " Vanity of vanities , " saith the Convener ; - " Place of service and dawn of heaven , " saith the Christian . Chapter ii . THE VANITY OF PLEASURE . BY reading Eccles . i . 15 ...
Page 15
... pass all nature through chemic process and trial ; and I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought , and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and , behold , all was vanity and vexation of spirit . " The heart cannot be ...
... pass all nature through chemic process and trial ; and I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought , and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and , behold , all was vanity and vexation of spirit . " The heart cannot be ...
Page 16
... passing through all the painful experience of the king to have this inquiry solemnly excited in the heart . Our quest is not to end in bitterness and disappointment , but is to show that this world is not complete in itself , and that ...
... passing through all the painful experience of the king to have this inquiry solemnly excited in the heart . Our quest is not to end in bitterness and disappointment , but is to show that this world is not complete in itself , and that ...
Other editions - View all
The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture, Volume 23 Joseph Parker No preview available - 2015 |
The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture Volume 23 Joseph Parker No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
Ahaz ALMIGHTY answer apostasy Assyria atheism Babylon beauty behold Bible blessing Book of Proverbs called chapter character child Christian Church cloud Coheleth comes Damascus darkness death divine earth Egypt eternal evil eyes faith fear feel fool give glory God's gospel grace hand hath hear heart heaven holy hope human infinite Isaiah Israel Jerusalem Jesus Christ Judah judgment king land Lebanon light live look Lord meaning mercy mighty moral mystery ness never night ourselves peace poor prayer prophecy prophet religious revelation rich righteousness saith Samaria sanctuary seen Shenir sing song Song of Solomon Song of Songs sorrow soul speak spirit tell thee thine things thou dost thou hast thought throne to-morrow turn unto Uzziah vanity verse vineyard vision voice whilst whole wicked wisdom wise word
Popular passages
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?