 | William Hurd - Religions - 1799 - 952 pages
...along with the graces, the muses, and virtues. When the Jews kept the feast of the golden calf, they sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play, which means to dance, and undoubtedly they learned this in Egypt. Arnobius, an ancient Christian writer,... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...-vani»ies, they will indulge that spirit of trifling which the Apostle ihus describes...." The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." On the contrary, when the christian is directed to the hope of his high calling, he finds it a source... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 426 pages
...rose up early on the marrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peaceofferings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.'] It is highly probable that at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians. Herodotus... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...gratification : that your ideas of a religious festival coincide with those of the idolators of old, who sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play*. Confess that a Sabbath passed in holy exercises, in communion with God, in contemplation of his excellences,... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 522 pages
...the Cor. where he warns us not to be idolaters, as were some of them ; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. This refers us to the occasion of their making a golden calf, and worshipping it with the riotous mirth... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 430 pages
...up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings ; and' the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to . •play. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down : •for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - Bible - 1811 - 396 pages
...rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings 5 and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down : for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...associated it with many of the amusements of life. The Israelites, when they worshipped their golden calf, sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. But the God of the Christians is a jealous God. Inquiries into hiß charrcter aed attributes are not.... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 428 pages
...rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace, offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.] It is highly probable that at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians. Herodotus... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - Atonement - 1814 - 390 pages
...idolaters,," says Paul to the church at Corinth, "as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." The apostle also cautions them against keeping company with idolaters. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS contained iq... | |
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And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 
