| 1831 - 590 páginas
...after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before...them ; and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea* and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen,... | |
| 1831 - 548 páginas
...Entertaining Knowledge." " A fire devoureth before them," says the prophet Joel, "and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots, of many horses... | |
| Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1831 - 382 páginas
...Burchell's Travels, vol. ip 418. muny generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the Garden of Eden before...them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen,... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1831 - 236 páginas
...of the trees, and 'announcing their approach, at a considerable distance, by the noise of feeding. " The land is as the garden of 'Eden before them, and behind them a 'desolate wilderness." In order to give a new direction to their course, the 'inhabitants are accustomed to dig pits and 'trenches... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 páginas
...So justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel to a great army; who further observes that ' the land is as the garden, of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.' " Having lived near a month in this manner, like a sword with ten thousand edges, to which they have... | |
| John Hartley - 1831 - 426 páginas
...chastisements which can befal guilty nations ; and up to this hour the visitation is experienced. The land was as the garden of Eden before them ; and behind them a desolate wilderness : (Joel ii. 3.) Recent events might almost intimate, that the language also is applicable : For all... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 356 páginas
...described in the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before...them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots, of many horses... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - 1832 - 390 páginas
...up to destroy Jerusalem is thus described : "Afire devoureth before them, and behind "them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before...them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." Jesus saw a pcculiar fitness therefore in choosing fire as a figure... | |
| Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 páginas
...it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen,... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 362 páginas
...described in the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before...them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots, of many horses... | |
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