 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...their mouth, and kiss it. An allusion to this practice is found in the Book of Joh xxxi. 26-28 : " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...mouth hath kissed my hand : this also were an iniquity : for I should have denied the God that is above." But the true Origin of worship itself seems to be... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...glorious created symbol of the Great Unseen — " If I beheld the Sun when it shined, or the Moon walUing in brightness, And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, That also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge, For I should have denied the God that is above."... | |
 | David Collyer - 1815 - 420 pages
...we read, that Job vindicated himself from such idolatry m ; If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed, (that is, with the inward devotion qf soul,) or my mouth hath kissed my hand, which was an outward... | |
 | 1816 - 472 pages
...period, is certain from the words of Job, who. thus exculpates himself from the charge of idolatry : "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand : this atso were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : for I should hare denied the God that is above."... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 pages
...NEFARIOUS WORSHIP PAID TO BEASTS, ESTEEMED SACRED, AND CALLED IN SCRIPTURE THE ABOMINATIONS OF EGYPT. If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, Job. xxxi. 26.—So said the virtuous Job, asserting, at the same time, his innocence of the crime... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 288 pages
...superstition through Chaldaea and Arabia, in the following beautiful passage, in which he exclaims, If I beheld the SUN when it shined, or the MOON walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, then should I have denied the God that is above, Job xxxi. 26. In an astronomical point of view, also,... | |
 | 1816 - 468 pages
...period, is certain from the words of Job, who thus exculpates himself from the charge of idolatry : ««If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness : and my heatt hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand : this also were an iniquity to be... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1817 - 472 pages
...made by him of his integrity in the observance of his duties, he calls God to witness: " That as he " beheld the sun, when it shined, or the moon " walking in brightness, his heart had never been " secretly enticed, his mouth had never kissed his " hand." Among the Persians,... | |
 | John Leland - 1819 - 436 pages
...which was then making a progress in those parts, in his admirable apology expresses himself thus : " If I beheld " the sun when it shined, or the moon...for I should have denied the God that is " above." Job xxxi. 26, 27, 28. And Moses seems to intimate the same thing, Deut. iv. 19. " Lest thou lift up... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1820 - 290 pages
...art my confidence; if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above."—JOB xxxi. 24—28. ......................,., 248 DISCOURSE I. ON THE MERCANTILE VIRTUES WHICH... | |
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If I beheld the Sun when it shined, or the Moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge, for I should have denied the GOD THAT is ABOVE."—"... 
