 | M C. Best - 1849 - 392 pages
...expect him he is nearest at hand." '" Truly so," replied Mr. C ; " that is part of his system ; ' surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.' (Prov. i. 17.) And it is not in the great occurrences of life the devil mostly gains his ends ; at... | |
 | John Barclay - 1852 - 292 pages
...say I, if we think all is well, when nothing is so in reality, but only in semblance and show ; for in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. Damnable lies and heresies, like contraband merchandise, are most successfully brought iu privily.... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...malignant motives. " Jesus perceived their wickedness." They could not impose upon Him. Solomon says, " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Truly in vain do men spread their crafty nets before Omniscience. Christ's eye penetrated through all... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1852 - 446 pages
...— Tfttfb , with short u in the final syllable, because of the Maqqeph which follows. (17) Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. not unfrequent usage. The writer means to say: 'It is indeed true that the net, etc.' — ifiiTa ,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 414 pages
...advantage upon which he had so confidently calculated. But I believe it is Solomon who has said, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Sir, I saw the trap which the honorable member had laid for me. I knew that he and his peculiar friends... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 pages
...advantage upon which he had so confidently calculated. But I believe it is Solomon who has said, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Sir, I saw the trap which the honorable member had laid for me. I knew that he and his peculiar friends... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 802 pages
...advantage upon which he had so confidently calculated. But I believe it is Solomon who has said, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Sir, I saw the trap which the honorable member had laid for me. I knew that he and his peculiar friends... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1852 - 464 pages
...— Tfi'ob , with short 5 in the final syllable, because of the Maqqeph which follows. (17) Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. i3 cannot be causal here, for this verse assigns no reason or ground of the preceding one. This particle... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...in our Lord's execution, and other extraordinary treasures of a similar kind, were displayed. But " in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." The Islanders were not to be caught by such poor artifices as these. One of them, as the mouthpiece... | |
 | 1853 - 802 pages
...of their operations. Of this necessity, our enemy avails himself, illustrating the proverb, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." We sometimes wonder that it is so hard to accomplish anything good, and that so many difficulties must... | |
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Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. 
