| Samuel Shaw - 1829 - 340 pages
...Moses doth excellently witness of himself in that holy rapture of his, " Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them !" By such examples as these a good man desires to live, yea, by higher precedents than either Abraham... | |
| Esther Copley - 1829 - 514 pages
...answer on this occasion, was truly noble: " Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them." And now the expected supply of food arrived. By a most astonishing miracle, an immense quantity of... | |
| Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...have had Moses forbid them, but he replied, " Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them !" Numb. xi. 24 — 20. ELDERS OF Is RAF.i.,the heads of tribes, who, before the settlement of the... | |
| Jews - 1832 - 592 pages
...considerations ; in the true spirit of his elevated office, he exclaimed, "Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them !" But neither the zeal of the elders nor the authority of Moses could quell the sedition ; the multitude... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...Elilail and Medad to prophesy in the camp), Enviest thou for my sake ' would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them ! Nu. xi. 29. And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all... | |
| Thomas Chalkley - 1832 - 480 pages
...Christ, being of the mind of Moses, when he said, in answer to Joshua, •' Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them," Numb. xi. 29. After this meeting I went to Springfield, and the next day returned home. On the 22nd... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 684 pages
...Moses, forbid them. And Moses said unto him, Enviest thoufor my sake ? Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ! EXPERIENCE proves that eminent situations are atttended with manifold anxieties ; and that rulers,... | |
| 1833 - 402 pages
...must confess*, that Christ has realized what Moses ' could only wish ; " Would that all the Lord's people were 'prophets, and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them." ' (Numb, xi. 29.)' VI. " Have ye received the Holy Ghost ?" (Acts xix.2.) VII. " Try the Spirits."... | |
| Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 710 pages
...dispense what we have. " And MCBCS said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them !" Numb. 1 1 : 29. And no one knows horn much good may sometimes result from "a word fitly spoken."... | |
| John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...eagerness of his servant in these terms : " Enviest thou for my sake ? would to GOD that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them ! The next incident in the life of Joshua shows a mind zealous for truth amidst the most formidable... | |
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