| Socrates (Scholasticus) - Church historians - 1844 - 594 pages
...the sacerdotal office. And what is recorded of Moses in the book of Numbers, t " Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" — may most justly be applied to the emperor Theodosius. It is because of this, that God subdued his... | |
| Henry Blunt - Bible - 1844 - 404 pages
...spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us ? And the Lord heard it. 3. (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) Moses had lately suffered much from the insubordination and murmurings of the people ; but he was yet... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 206 pages
...confidence, and to whom he entrusted great power over his chosen people, it was said : — Now the man MOSES was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. NUMBERS xn. 8. And we are told by the Psalmist, that: — God arose to judgment, to save all the meek... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 200 pages
...confidence, and to whom he entrusted great power over his chosen people, it was said : — Now the man MOSES was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. NUMBERS xn. 3. And we are told by the Psalmist, that : — God arose to judgment, to save all the meek... | |
| 1841 - 1136 pages
...spoken only by Moses? hath ho not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. (Now the man Moses roas the house, and say, 16 What bast thou here? and whom hast thou here And theLoiiD spake suddenly unlo Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Ħournah. vol. 9, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand. 1979). referring to Numbers 1 2:3: "Now Ihe man Moses novelist, pod. Mrs. Napper, in The Hand of Ethctbertj, ch. 9 (1876). spe 4 If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me... | |
| William Gerber - Philosophy - 1994 - 206 pages
...the virtue of humility appears in the following passage in the Book of Numbers: 11 "Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." E. Deuteronomy Deuteronomy is the only book in the Bible about which the Bible itself tells of the... | |
| Wayne G. Boulton, Thomas D. Kennedy, Allen Verhey - Religion - 1994 - 576 pages
...anger, but he is also the embodiment of kindness: a "man of blood" but also "meek Moses." "And Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" (Num. 12:3). 1n one of the rebellions against his authority, the tribal leaders Dathan and Abiram accuse... | |
| James Nohrnberg - Religion - 1995 - 426 pages
...reverse side of his want of an apotheosis is his mediatorial self-abnegation. If the man Moses was indeed "very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" (Num. 12:3), this ambassadorial self-effacement stands at the opposite pole from the self-assertion... | |
| Frederick Brotherton Meyer, F. B. Meyer - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 196 pages
...God to strike them down in His anger? Nothing of the sort. He answered not a word, for "the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" (vs. 3). In his bearing, he reminds us of Christ in the judgment hall who, "when he was reviled, reviled... | |
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