 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him, Prov. xxvi. 12. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them lhat are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight, lea. v. 20,... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...Seest thou a man wise in his own j conceit ? there is more hope of a fool i than of him, xxvi. 12. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet fur bitter! Woe unto (Лет that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! Isa.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...themselves dislike ; and so possess them with the same dislike from generation to generation. " Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness...darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter'." Direct. vin. ' Let it be the principal part of your care and labour in all their education,... | |
 | Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1826 - 600 pages
...his own devices and works; by which captivity none but the wicked are punished : as Isaiah saith, v. 20, " Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." — Here, mark, that the first destruction of the ungodly is blindness : as we have it in... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...his own devices and works ; by which captivity none but the wicked are punished : as Isaiah saith, v. 20, " Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." — -Here, mark, that the first destruction of the ungodly is blindness : as we have it in... | |
 | 1847 - 798 pages
...for there may be apparent blossoms and fruit where the root is rottenness (see Isa. v, 20 — 2i). " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! Woe unto them... | |
 | George Stokes - Great Britain - 1799 - 364 pages
...to such times the words of the Holy Ghost, as spoken by the Prophet, are peculiarly applicable ; " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil,...darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter," (Is. v. 20.) Ought we not rather to examine ourselves? — Is there not at the present day... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...or branches of the same sentence, and directs us to rest while we can tell three ; as, Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. And especially where there is a sort of opposition between the one and the other ; as, And... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...soul be without knowledge, it is not good," Prov. xix. 2. There is a woe pronounced against those " that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter," Isa. v. 20. It is one great and main design of the teachings and instructions of the prophets... | |
 | 1828 - 546 pages
...in the volume by the Warden of New College. The text considered is the well-known passage, Isaiah v. 20. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." This discourse contains the following observations — observations extremely important to... | |
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; That put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; That put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 
