And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and... Sermons Chiefly on the Interpretation of Scripture - Page xby Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 533 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...ii. 3. JOB. CCCCXLIX. JOB'S ANXIETY FOR HIS CHILDREN. Job i. 5. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified...them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all : for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned,... | |
| 1833 - 930 pages
...ended, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings t the things which thy eyes have seen, and lest they...: but teach them to thy sons, and thy sons' sons 6 IT Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and •>... | |
| Sarah Hall - American essays - 1833 - 232 pages
...and daughters had gone from house to house at some festive season, the pious patriarch had " risen early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings, according to the number of them all." " It may be," said he, " that my sons have sinned in a moment of intemperance, and blasphemed their... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1833 - 572 pages
...law. We read that, after Job's sons and daughters had been entertaining one another in their houses, " Job sent, and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all ; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned,... | |
| John Gillies - Bookbinding - 1834 - 672 pages
...us, " When the days of his children's feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and offered burnt offerings, according to the number...cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." Nor can they plead the practice of good old Joshua, whom, in the text, we find as much concerned for... | |
| William Symington - Atonement - 1834 - 464 pages
...than once. The patriarch himself followed the practice : — ' And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified...them, and rose up early in the morning, and OFFERED BURNT-OFFERINGS according to the number of them all." The same thing was exemplified, under the sanction... | |
| rev William Ellis - 298 pages
...closing act of these festivities. "And it was," so says the sacred historian, " when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified...them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt-offerings, according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned,... | |
| Alexander Campbell - Bible - 1835 - 406 pages
...their sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so,that when the days of their feasting had gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and...burnt offerings according to the number of them all: "or Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus acted Job continually.t... | |
| Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...up by harsh metaphor, was like a barbed arrow dipt in venom. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified...them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all : for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...burnt offerings according to the number of his sons, and accompanying the act with the explanation, 'It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their heart,' we are sure that the author of the book, and those for whom he wrote •were familiar with... | |
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