 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink ; for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.  The Bible for Home Reading - Page 33edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | 1611 - 360 pages
...for a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again : but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not...displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked ; for there shall be no... | |
 | John Hey - Emotions - 1801 - 278 pages
...previously to take a view of a few passages of Scripture. " Rejoice " not when thine enemy fallcth, and let not thine heart " be glad when he stumbleth : lest the Lord see it, and " it displease him." Prov. xxiv. 17. The word " stumbleth" expresses well the ordinary trivial misfortunes which are apt... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 528 pages
...respect and attention, that the phrase in question might have originated from Proverbs, xxv. 22. " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ;...for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head." But this is a metaphor expressive of the pain which a man shall suffer from the reproaches of his conscience,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 482 pages
...tyrant : when I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids;3 1 will cut oft' their heads. thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and...if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head," &c. Proverbs xxv, 22; — or as cittd in the Epistle to the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...that hath pity on the poor, lendeth to the Lord ; that which he hath given, will he pay him again. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? He that formed 'the eye, shall he not see ? I have been... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...raiment, Deut. x. 18; and we are commanded to love our enemies, Matt. v. 44; and to feed them also. " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and, if he be thirsty, give him water to drink." Remember, reader, these are called our enemies; but Ahab hated God. I do not find that Ahab was an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 480 pages
...accumulation of passages in which the phrase itself occurs, the original of it is still left unexplored : " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ;...he be thirsty, give him water to drink : for thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head," &c. Proverbs xxv. 22; — or as cited in the Epistle to the... | |
 | Missions - 1804 - 502 pages
...fumishe« us with a beautiful, and perhap* just illustration of Solomou's 1805.] Words, Prov. xxv. 21,22, If thine' enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ;...: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. To act with a direct view either to irritate still further the unjustifiable passions of an enemy,... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart. 21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink : 22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee. 23 The north... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...evil by our good aóts, his animosity by our forbearance. The passage is taken from Prov. xxv. 21. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink, fur thou shall heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord shall reward thee." It has been supposed... | |
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