 | Henry Formby - 1857 - 572 pages
...smell of his garments, blessing- him, he said : JACOB RECEIVES THE BLESSING OF HIS FATHER ISAAC. (( Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field which the Lord hath blessed. God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance... | |
 | Extracts - 1860 - 500 pages
...sweetness of the land is compared to the benediction and grace of the saints, holy Isaac saying, " The smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field". " The smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field". Why then shall I describe the purple violets,... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1861 - 800 pages
...kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said : Behold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed. God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance... | |
 | Fathers of the church - 1864 - 498 pages
...sweetness of the land is compared to the benediction and grace of the saints, holy Isaac saying, " The smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field". " The smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field". Why then shall I describe the purple violets,... | |
 | Missals - 1865 - 798 pages
...And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said : Behold tlie smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed. God give tbee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Religion - 1867 - 626 pages
...his rough brother Esau. Then the father, smelling the savour of the elder brother's garments, said, ' Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed,' Gen. xxvii. 27. And never are we more gracious and acceptable to... | |
 | John Kitto - 1866 - 688 pages
...imbibed from the herbs of the field, might assist the deception. Isaac expressly alludes to it : ' Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed.' Some think the garments were perfumed ; but if so, this could not... | |
 | Missals - 1867 - 800 pages
...him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said : Brhold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed. God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, ahuudano... | |
 | Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.) - Baptism - 1869 - 562 pages
...the tribes of the earth be blessed." 1 On this same point in Genesis : " And Isaac blessed Jacob.2 Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field which the Lord hath blessed : and God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fertility of the earth,... | |
 | Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) - Christian heresies - 1869 - 538 pages
...dishes. 3. The blessing of Isaac with which he blessed his younger son Jacob has the same meaning, when he says, " Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a full field which the Lord has blessed." l But " the field is the world." 2 And therefore he added,... | |
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Behold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed. 
