| Bradford Kinney Peirce - Christian biography - 1851 - 512 pages
...preached the first sermon. His text was taken from the address of the patriarch Jacob to Pharaoh: " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." It was touchmg to see him upon his elevated seat, for he was obliged to preach in a sitting posture,... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...sitting posture at a watch-meeting in the church in Middletown at tho close of this year. His text—" Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage "—was beautifully appropriate; and his discourse upon life, death, and immortality was eloquent and... | |
| Bible - 1851 - 774 pages
...How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, ' The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 10 an rs in thy house; I served thee • fourteen years...cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ' ten times. 42 " V. 6. Pharaoh seems to have been fully sensible of Joseph's excellent services, and very grateful for... | |
| John Farrar - Bible - 1852 - 692 pages
...appearance and the pious demeanour of Jacob led the monarch to inquire his years; to which he replied, " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." This answer of the patriarch was not the language of discontent, but the solemn reflection of a man... | |
| Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...good, and Jacob, who had been so richly favored, said, " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Phnraoh, and went out from before Pharaoh." What an exaggeration of life's evil on... | |
| John Kitto - Bible - 1851 - 1022 pages
...What composure and elevation is there in the reply, 4 Tiie days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh' (Gen. xlvii. 8-10). This fine passage... | |
| Robert Shittler - 1853 - 718 pages
...Jacob, ' How old art thou ? 0 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an \^ \ \ \ \ _ X.^ blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11 11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren,... | |
| Bible stories, English - 1902 - 600 pages
...Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren,... | |
| Norman Maclean - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1902 - 296 pages
...was, the old patriarch answered : " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are fourscore and twelve years; few and evil have the days of the years of...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." The reek always lay heavy in the four corners of the room and hung like a dark cloud overhead, and... | |
| Bishop Samuel Fallows - Bible - 1904 - 638 pages
...What composure and elevation is there in the reply, 'The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage ;' and Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went1 out from before Pharaoh (Gen. xlvii:8-io). Jacob, with his... | |
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