| 1828 - 506 pages
...represented as being employed by God for the punishment of a guilty people. It is ^here said, (ver. 3,) that "the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." This affecting description is strikingly illustrated by a passage in captain... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...after them there shall not be, Even to the years of many generations. Before them a fire devoured], And behind a flame burneth ; The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wilderness : Yea, and nothing shall escape them. Their appearance shall be like the appearance... | |
| James Rennie - 1830 - 440 pages
...scourge of oriental countries. " A fire deyoureth before them," says the Prophet Joel, J" and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a , desolate wilderness; yea, and .nothing shall escape . mem. ...The sound of their wings is as the... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - 1830 - 370 pages
...given in the prophetic language of inspiration : A fire, devourcth before them, and behind, aflame burneth : the land is as the garden of. Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. Finally, the use of these substances threatens... | |
| 1830 - 398 pages
...be given in the prophetic language of inspirafion: Afire devoureth before them, and behind, aflame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness :. yea, and nothing shall escape them. 'Finally, the use of these substances threatens... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - 1830 - 40 pages
...the prophetic language of inspiration : Afire devoureth before them, and behind, a Jlamc burnelh : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate •wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. Finally, the use of these substances threatens... | |
| 1831 - 590 pages
...more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them ; and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea* and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| 1831 - 548 pages
...of Entertaining Knowledge." " A fire devoureth before them," says the prophet Joel, "and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of... | |
| Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1831 - 382 pages
...* Burchell's Travels, vol. ip 418. muny generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pages
...So justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel to a great army; who further observes that ' the land is as the garden, of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.' " Having lived near a month in this manner, like a sword with ten thousand edges,... | |
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