 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...is a curious text in Proverbs xxiii. 2, which has often puzzled me, teacher," remarked John Try. " ' Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.' It seems almost to commend suicide." "Nay, John," replied Mr. Wiseman ; "if you were familiar with... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 pages
...7¿Horning, PROVERBS XXIII. JULY WHEN thon sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what !-•• + Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. Labour not to be rich : cease from thine... | |
 | Saurin Elliot Lane - Temperance - 1849 - 32 pages
...declarations in the Scriptures, relating to the case of the inebriate. In Prov. xxiii. 2. we read, " And put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite." The word here translated throat, signifies, primarily, to swallow, to devour, &c. The Latins sa.y gula... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 642 pages
...Memoirs of Eighty Yean,' 1892, p. 109. Is not this advice as old as Solomon f Cf. " When thou sitteit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee : And put л knife to thy broat, if thou be a man given to appetite." — Proverb* xxiii. 1, 2. WILLIAM GEORGE... | |
 | John Calkins Coit - 1850 - 84 pages
...empire, but Gretk literature was too much for Roman valour. Solomon's counsel stands yet upon record. " When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently WHAT is set before thee, and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...brings. Ib. Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. Excess is the manufacturer of pain. Solomon. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently...what is before thee : and put a knife to thy throat it thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties : for they are deceitful meat.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...a right hearty welcome. We strongly advise you, in such a case, and under such circumstances, to " put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite." " Restrain thyself, as it were with a sword hanging over thy head, from all excess. Let these words,... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...a " good name " is great treasure ; and that a true faith will lead to eternal life. CHAPTER XXIII. WHEN thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee : '2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties... | |
 | 1854 - 378 pages
...a right hearty welcome. We strongly advise you, in such a case, and under such circumstances, to " put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite '* " Restrain thyself, as it were with a sword hanging over thy head, from all excess. Let these words,... | |
 | George Bush - 1854 - 694 pages
...very just then, in our translators, to render this word by a more extensive term in Prov. xxiii. 3, " When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee," v. 1. " Be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat," v. 3. It is translated in much... | |
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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 
